[quote comment=”1825″]OS X Stores the profiles in “~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/”

For example,
“~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[*****].default/persdict.dat”[/quote]

Finally, someone who knows what they are talking about! I visited numerous support websites including apple and firefox support. None of them were right or were not detailed enough to be able to do this.

Thanks Jeremy, you rock!

Now that MS started browser development again it’s probably only a matter of time before they include the dictionary feature.

Heh, it’s hardly a war anyway. They won the war, then stopped all active development of IE and allowed the competitors who remained on the market to surpass them. Now they are playing catch-up. And it’s a good thing. Any development and competition on the browser market is good.

I just hope that one day IE will actually support the W3C specs at least as well as Firefox does, and that firefox will be able to pass the Acid2 test like Opera does. :P

I’m a Firefox user myself, but I’m envious of Opera’s awesum W3C compliance.

Amen on that!

Thanks mucho for the tipola. Apparently despite all the praises of the M$ haters, the Mozilla developers missed a gaping hole. You have to be able to maintain optional features. As a ‘used-to-be-developer/architect’ this has been buggin’ me for a while. I distinctly remember building these apparati in my prior life, even if the were not always the most elegant constructs.

I’m kinda neutral in this war, and can’t see why Bill & Co, could not have seen this (spell-checker) as a ‘should-have’.

Here’s an MDSN link about that
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=214792

Thanks again. I’ve been getting mighty sick of ‘soem’ & ‘soemthing’ passing muster – hahahaha.

\:-)

should a person on twitter be called a twitwit?

Thanks Mike! Maybe this was why Milos could not find it the first time around.

One note.
It will not create the persdict.dat file the first time until you close the firefox session you currently have open.

and this is a wonderfully helpful tip if you’re like me and sometimes have spastic mouse control moments.
:)

Great tip, this came in handy!

Also, a quick way to get to “Application Data” folder on Windows is, in Start menu > Run, to type in “%appdata%”. I use it often to save time.

[…] It didn’t take too long to realize there was no built-in feature to undo the add. I guessed correctly that my personal Firefox dictionary might exists as a text file and with the help of Google, I quickly found a blog article providing the file’s location. […]

Oh man, so much for familiar linux underpinnings eh? So there are no dot files in OSX?

Heh, this kinda looks like a windows path with all those upper case letters (gasp!) and spaces (double gasp!).

I kinda want to get one of those new dual core MacBooks and learn more about OSX, but I always figured that once you drop down to the shell, and look past the pretty desktop environment it would drive more or less like BSD.

So I’m guessing they did fuck with the file system structure no?

Anyways, thanks for the tip!

OS X Stores the profiles in “~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/”

For example,
“~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[*****].default/persdict.dat”

It’s probably caching it in memory or something.