Process for Removing Added Dictionary Words in Firefox


	Process for Removing Added Dictionary Words in Firefox

The Rooster

8-21-2007 12:35 AM

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very handy hard to find info

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• Notepad is NOT recommended as it removes all the line breaks between words. OpenOffice Writer works well.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ffextensionguru.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/tip-removing-added-words-from-fx-dictionary/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Find the misspelled word or words and remove.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ffextensionguru.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/tip-removing-added-words-from-fx-dictionary/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Save the file and restart Firefox</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5488F601-ED8D-410E-AD5C-F0598D628D5D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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