Hello cojack,

I found this 19-yo (!) bug report, that was updated 2 days ago :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687

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See the section Commenting, especially #4

See also these more recent bugs:

• Bug 1402822 - Spellchecker needs to allow multiple language dictionaries at the same time
• Bug 1203024 - Automatic language detection for the spell checker from user input

cor-el said

See also these more recent bugs:

Those were updated three and four months ago; the bug report I linked to was updated two days ago.

Your bug is Not more updated as the updates for the last months were just CC changes since May 2018 according to History and the last few comments were nothing of importance.

James said

Your bug is Not more updated as the updates for the last months were just CC changes since May 2018 according to History and the last few comments were nothing of importance.

Thank you for pointing that out, James - very enlightening.

The reason why I chose that particular bug report :

1) To show that this has been an issue for so long now, 2) To show that people are still interested in this bug report.

I should just have referred to this thread :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1215249

This extension is a translator, but it also supports multilingual spell checking :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imtranslator/

Worth a try .....