# Lost spell check Firefox/Kubuntu

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-spell-check-firefox-kubuntu/611535>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 2, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-spell-check-firefox-kubuntu/611535 "2012-02-02T14:33:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![thelabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@thelabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelabdude)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-spell-check-firefox-kubuntu/611535/1 "2012-02-02T14:33:25Z")

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Back in December I gave up on Debian and Iceweasel and am now using Kubuntu and Firefox. I was getting along OK for a few weeks and then I did some updates and ‘‘Check my speling as I type’’ no longer works on some websites including SD. I go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Browsing and the box for spell check is checked. I note I have a close button, but no OK or Apply buttons.

Well I just fixed the problem. If anybody else is interested, right click in the text box, click on Languages, click on English/US or whatever you choose.

I apologize for all my misspellings in the last month.

Now if I can figure out how to make the page up and down keys work.