Pehaps the fact that I installed IE7 a few minutes later had something to do with it *insert evil laugh here* perhaps monkey boy wants to burry firefox! Conspiracy theories are so much more fun that reality.

I downloaded and installed the Firefox 2.0 beta 1 ready to be impressed by the new spell checking feature only to be disappointed when it didn’t work.

I thought there must be an option to switch it on that I’d missed but couldn’t find it. I discovered that the international versions have had the feature removed because there is a licensing issue described here in the Firefox status meeting 2006-03-07.

To overcome this problem I downloaded the US version of Fx2.0 and installed it over my copy. This created the [C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 1] \dictionaries folders.

From this http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html page I downloaded my local dictionary and opened it up in 7-zip. I extracted the two dictionary files (*.aff & *.dic) to the \dictionaries folder and when restarting Fx I was able to right-click on a misspelt word and change the language.