Firefox dictionaries

I realised that after my move over to Australia that my Firefox installation had lost its built-in spell checker. At first I thought that it was the result of certain new plug-ins I had installed, but after look round a bit, found out that it was because of a missing dictionary.

In short what happened was I after getting to Australia, I changed my operating system time zone setting, which also change the dictionary that was being use.

The solution is simple, right click on any text area which you would normally expect the spellcheck to be active -> languages -> Add dictionaries.


After that, simply click on the dictionary you need to install it.

Reverting to an older JRE

It has been a while since I fiddled with java. Was trying to revert to an earlier version of JRE (1.42) after installing JRE 1.5. Did not manage to find much concise info on the web besides for chunks of queries on the sun forums. But I did manage to find what I was looking for there and thought it would be nice to summarise it here.

Anyway on windows, the easiest thing to do is actually to simply append the path of the JRE to your classpath settings. Win XP will simply use the first JRE it encounters on your classpath.

The other alternative is to run jpicpl32.exe(1.4) or javacpl.exe(1.5 and later) in the bin directory of the JRE you have installed and configure it from there.