When the google toolbar spell checker is unavailable in Firefox, note that FF has its own
If you're a long-time IE user who moves to Firefox, and you're a user of the Google Toolbar spell check feature, you may find that sometimes when a site opens a popup window, you don't see the Google toolbar in that popup window. An example is when making a comment in a blog that uses a popup window. You may feel that you can't spell check the comment you make.
Here's good news: as nice as the Google toolbar spellchecker is (which I've written about before), did you know that Firefox already automatically has a spellchecker? Pay attention next time you're typing in any textarea field (a multi-line text input field on a form). As you type words that may be typos, Firefox underlines them in red.
Now, you may ask, "ok, that's great for textareas, but what about for input (single line) text fields?". Here's good news: you can enable Firefox to check those as well:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/uncategorized/quick-tip-spell-check-firefox-text-input-fields/
BTW, if anyone knows how to solve the problem of the Google toolbar not showing in popups (even though the View>Toolbars>Google Toolbar is checked within the window), I'll welcome that insight.
My problem is that the Spell Checker icon or button is not showing at all.
Doesn't appear to have downloaded. I even tried to add it but there is no
option. I use FF.
Just to be clear, have you hit the "settings" button on the google toolbar,
and chosen "options", and then observed it to be selectable as an option,
along with autofill and autolink? Is it checked?
That did it! I even checked there but must have overlooked it.