Hi all,
Whenever I type anything into a box I get red underlining, which I guess is spellchecking. I want it gone. How do I do it? Can't find the setting in Preferences.

thank you

Go to about:config, filter for "spell"
If not yet there, add this pref:

layout.spellcheckDefault
Integer
0

That did the trick, thank you!

I'm still getting it in K-Meleon 74 Beta 4 even after changing the option as written.

EDIT: Nevermind, its just occurring on Google for some reason.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/24/2014 02:17AM by Zero3K.

Mhmm, I have spelltest disabled in the K-Meleon Plugins and it underlines still anyway. Sometimes it goes very long until each word is underlined and this time I must wait, can do nothing others. (KM 1.7)

in new KM74 spelltest isn't driven by spelltest kplugin but derives from the engine package.

In 1.7 allready too? I could believe it, the description for spelltest is (no information available) in the plugin settings. But how can I inactivate it?:s

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Mikk
Mhmm, I have spelltest disabled in the K-Meleon Plugins and it underlines still anyway. Sometimes it goes very long until each word is underlined and this time I must wait, can do nothing others. (KM 1.7)

weird. I don't have spelltest installed at all and I am using KM74 b4. I looked in K-meleon Plugins section and I dont see a spelltest plugin.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2014 11:44PM by 4td8s.

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weird. I don't have spelltest installed at all and I am using KM74 b4. I looked in K-meleon Plugins section and I dont see a spelltest plugin.

Nothing weird. KM74 has no any spelltest by itself but uses Gecko's one (built-in from engine).

And KM 1.7 depends on spelltest kplugin - so that case IS weird, yes.

As I startet the 1.7 first time I was asked if I want to install spell checking. I said NO. Neveertheles I got this underlining. Than sometimes - still getting red wave underelined textes - I found the check box for the spell checking in the plugin stettings, it was set off. Than later I changed all the file names considering the »spel« in any kind so that I set an underline sign in front of it, not to delete them yet. Than I was again asked if I want to install spell checking and I said again NO but that underlining was not disappeared. In following step I changed the extentions of that files from dll to dl. The check box in the plugin settings is away now but that underlinig - sometimes making even the readibilty of the text difficult - is still here.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/2014 08:11AM by Mikk.

Sometimes, I don't know how and when, the red underlining disappeared and I forgot this problem almost completely. But abaout 2 weeks ago I lost my setteings and must make them anew, and together with it was the underlining back.

Now I found some hints here in the forum:
1. Somewhere I could read the suggestion, "layout.textarea.spellcheckDefault" to set to false. Found in kmeleon.js, done, but this alone didn't help.

2. http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?8,127127,127136#msg-127135

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The problem is that happens without any spellchecker plugin LOL.

I was writting here and at the next moment, without doing anything... boom, underlinings everywhere.

Looks as if it was taking this thing from an unkown pref or something or maybe my es-ES dictionary or... who know, because even in the prefs, it is disabled... weird weird weird.

You can disable Spell Check completly by adding an integer named layout.spellcheck and give it a value of 0.

Than I searched by Windows all files containig "layout.spellcheck" in the KM folder and found

- xul.dll
- prefs-3.js
- kmeleon.js.

The 1st one is irrelevant for this, it checks this value, it's not possible to change here anything by smiple text editing without a large risk to destroy something. But in the others I did as recommended, set "layout.spellcheck" to value 0 and the underlining is now away.

I'm not sure if all these steps are necessary, perheaps only one of them but have no mind now to play with it on, it's secure not false if they all are set so. And it's documented and foundable with the forum search function here (search word "spell") for future purpose if somebody needs.

Also the suggestion from siria here above (21th July 2011 17:48), to do it via about:config, to set all values found under the term "spell" accordingly, shell lead to the destination. But it seems the editing of about:config doesn't work in the KM 1.7 alpha (if anybody knows a patch for it I'll be thankful for a message).



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/2016 07:56AM by Mikk.

1.7 ist just too much alpha, too many early bugs.
Yes, RIGHT-clicking in about:config shows the wrong menu there too.
Tip: DOUBLE-click on a pref.

about:config in 1.7 is almost fully broken.

Use Preferential extension instead.