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How do I make Firefox spellcheck in multiple languages simultaneously?

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Mar 15, 202614404 views
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I want Firefox to assume that text may be in a mixture of languages and words should be looked up in multiple dictionaries. (For example, everything in en-GB, en-US, ru, be and be-classic should be consider as good, everything else should be underlined and corrections from all dictionaries should be offered). Is there an add-on for "multi-language spell-check"? Alternatively, can I merge all dictionaries into one big combined dictionary?

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I use French and English in almost all of my emails and this is a nightmare. There is a (quite simple) solution, but you need to hack one of your dictionaries: copy-paste the content of e.g. your English dictionary into your French one; it works! As simple as that! This is how I solved this issue on Mac OS X: Go to (use Cmd-Shift-G if your Library folder is hidden), and select your profile folder (mine was ) and the extensions folder. You will see folders for each of your dictionaries ( and in …

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