Pangloss Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Ran into this bit of weirdness earlier today and I know there's a lot of FF users here so I thought I'd pass it along. It's easy to accidentally add a misspelled word to Firefox's dictionary with that right-click menu, but getting that bad word out of there is a bit of a nuisance. Here's how you do it: Open the following location on your hard drive, where "xxxxx" is the random number given for that folder (might be easier to open the folder above this location -- there's only one folder inside, and it will be the one listed below): Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[user Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\ Windows Vista: C:\users\[user Name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\ Then look for a file called "persdict.dat". This file can be edited with Notepad or any other text editor. The entries are not separated -- they're all run together. Go figure. Edit out the offending word, save, and go back to work. Source: http://cavemonkey50.com/2007/03/edit-firefoxs-spelling-dictionary/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 I'll bet they would be on their own lines if you used WordPad. Notepad doesn't recognize \n as a line-ending character and insists on \r\n. Thanks for the hint though. There might be a custom dictionary browser extension... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 IIRC do it with firefox closed else it'll just rewrite it. On linux this is normally in: ~/.mozilla/firefox/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted March 17, 2009 Author Share Posted March 17, 2009 I'll bet they would be on their own lines if you used WordPad. Notepad doesn't recognize \n as a line-ending character and insists on \r\n. Ah yes, I'll bet that's it. Good old Notepad. (rofl) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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