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For whatever reason on my Ubuntu install of Firefox my spell check tells me 'flavor' should be 'flavour' and 'initialize' should be 'initialise' etc, at first I thought I was crazy and had been spelling it wrong my whole life but suddenly realized (ugh there it goes again!) that the spell checker must be configured for UK english or something. Where can I change this to US english? Note that I know it is isolated to Firefox because other apps that have spell check on my system are not doing this.

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In any text box in Firefox, right-click, and you should see a menu item "Languages". Select "English / United States".

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Great avatar :-) – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Oct 29 '10 at 7:07
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Get any language you like at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/ and then disable every language you don't like through menu Tools, Add-ons.

Or, if you want to have multiple languages installed: after installing them, right click in any text box and choose sub menu Languages to select your favorite/favourite.

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I've had the same issue on Ubuntu and disabling languages through the Add-ons dialog hadn't worked. – Firefeather Nov 20 '10 at 5:06
@Firefeather, some OS built-in spell check maybe? (On my Mac, the spell checking in Safari is using the built-in spell check, but in Firefox I still need to add language as an add-on.) – Arjan Nov 20 '10 at 8:02
sorry, let me be more clear. On Ubuntu, Firefox still uses its own spelling dictionary, but even disabling the installed-by-default en-GB language add-on doesn't work. But the text box right-click approach does solve the problem as long as there is a dictionary installed with en-US spellings. – Firefeather Nov 20 '10 at 18:51
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