{"id":1048,"date":"2007-11-23T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/23\/fixing-your-dictionary\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T14:15:20","slug":"fixing-your-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/fixing-your-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Your Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your are typing some text into your FIrefox 2.0 Browser, and you spell something terribly wrong.  Like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am so glad I upgreaded to Firefox 2.0, because it has a built in spell checker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You see the error where you meant to type &#8220;upgraded.&#8221;  So you right click on it to pick the correct spelling, and accidentally hit the &#8220;Add to Dictionary&#8221; menu choice, which is annoyingly placed right next to the correctly spelled word.From now on, you can never be sure if your text will be correct.  Bummer.There is a way to fix this.<!--more-->In Linux, go to a terminal window.Change the directory to where Firefox stores the dictionary file.  Thiis in your home directory, in a subdirectory with a &#8220;dot&#8221; at the beginning of the name (to make it invisible), then a couple of subdirectories down below that.  The file you are looking for is called &#8220;persdict.dat&#8221;Most likely, you can just type this into the terminal window:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>cd ~\/.mozilla\/firefox\/*.default<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and that will bring you to the default configuration file.  The &#8220;star&#8221; is because the exact name of your configuration file is unknown to me.  Your Linux system will open to the first directory that fits this &#8220;wildcard.&#8221;Now type &#8220;ls&#8221; to see if you see a persdict.dat.If it was me, I&#8217;d then type:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>gedit persdict.dat<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>so you can edit the dictionary in a nice word processor (Gedit).An even more direct approach which may work nicely is to go to the terminal window and simply type in this command:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>gedit ~\/.mozilla\/firefox\/*.default\/persdict.dat<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Either way, edit the file, save it, and you&#8217;re cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your are typing some text into your FIrefox 2.0 Browser, and you spell something terribly wrong. Like this: I am so glad I upgreaded to Firefox 2.0, because it has a built in spell checker. You see the error where you meant to type &#8220;upgraded.&#8221; So you right click on it to pick the correct &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/fixing-your-dictionary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fixing Your Dictionary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[164,67,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-gU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}