Spell checking & Firefox 3.6

[Nigel Ridley]

Steve wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:22:42 -0000, Nigel Ridley  
> <nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
> 
>> Nigel Ridley wrote:
>>> With Firefox [3.5.5] from the repos, it underlines spelling mistakes as  
>>> I type.
>>> I downloaded 3.6 beta 2 and extracted it to /home/nigel (I also tried  
>>> it in /opt).
>>> Flash works - Java doesn't (but it does in 3.5.5); neither does spell  
>>> checking (which I tend to
>>> rely on).
>>>
>>> How do I symlink to the necessary plugins and where are they?
>>> I did find a bunch in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but couldn't find  
>>> anything about spell checking.
>>>
>>> Nigel
>>>
>> I just followed the instructions on:
>> http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java
>>
>> but still java doesn't work and isn't listed in 'about:plugins'
>>
>> Any suggestions? Spell checking is more important though.
>>
>> Nigel
>>
> For the spelling checker are you right clicking and selecting spell check?  
> you have to do this for each filed or what ever.
> 
I tried that but it still doesn't work :-(
Perhaps it's a bug in the beta release?

Nigel