Feb 7

Written by: Spence Hackney
2/7/2006 10:47 AM 

I have come to seriously rely on the excellent Spellbound FireFox extension.  This extension allows you to right click on any text box and check the spelling of what you type.  Excellent for blogging! 

Unfortunately, it broke when I upgraded to FireFox 1.5.01.  Fixing it was pretty simple though.  To install Spellbound you actually have to install two extensions, one for the front end and the other for the back end.  The problem was that both of these extensions were only set up for FireFox versions below 1.5.0.1.  It is pretty simply to fix this though:

1. Download the extension and save it to your computer.  This should be a .xpi file.
2. Change the extension from .xpi to .zip.
3. Extract the zip file
4. Inside you should find a file called install.rdf, open this file in notepad or your favorite XML/text editor.
5. Look for the tag and replace whatever is in it with a version above what you are targeting.  For instance, I just entered 1.6.
6. Zip all the files back up and change the extension of the file from zip to back to xpi.
7. Open up extension manager in FireFox (Tools > Extensions) and drag the new .xpi file on the Extension Manager.
   

That is it!  If this is too much work, you can get the modified extensions here:
Spelbound for FireFox 1.5.0.1

Enjoy!

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