Stuff I Do

One of the cool features of FireFox for the linguistics challenged like me is that it will spell check items in a textarea of a web page. If you misspell it, there is little red line that shows under the word and you can right mouse click on it and select the correct spelling of that word. The problems for me is that I get a little too quick on my clicking and from time to time, select the Add To Dictionary option which is directly under the list of other options for the word you misspelled.

To clear the word from the custom dictionary you need to find the persdict.dat and open it in a text editor and removed the wrong entry. On Windows XP you will find it in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\unique.default And on Mac OS X it is located at /Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/unique.default