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I ask this because Firefox suggested that whitespaces is not a valid word; rather it gave me whitespace or white spaces.

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If you mean the term from typography, the answer is trivial. it is an uncountable noun such as water or time. So your question is exactly the same as asking "what is the plural of time." Dead simple answer, and no mystery here. – Joe Blow May 14 '11 at 12:30

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The word "whitespace" is usually uncountable. If you need it to be countable, I would suggest saying "whitespace characters".

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+1: This is what I would do. When I want to pluralize it for the computer to understand, I use \s+ ^_^ – Robusto May 14 '11 at 11:01
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The design sense of "white space" is normally given as two words. Like Neil says, it's an uncountable noun. Like water, time, and money, you can have a lot of it, or you might need more. (When it comes to white space, people usually need more.)

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Yes, thanks. But the word "white space" you cited means the blank area in art pieces (paintings, for example), here what I referred to is the character in computer science, just like this one " ". :) – trVoldemort May 14 '11 at 9:50
What's the difference between white space in art or in computer sciences? – user8568 May 14 '11 at 10:03
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Boob -- they're just different things. It's like saying "what's the difference between a redneck and a red neck". – Neil Coffey May 14 '11 at 10:12
@Neil: Do you mean that the plural form of "whitespace" cannot be "white space s "? – user8568 May 14 '11 at 10:18
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@Boob: Not usually, I don't think. "whitespace" is usually used as a so-called "mass noun" or "uncountable noun". So basically you would usually have "whitespace" just as you would have "bread", but you wouldn't usually talk about having "2 whitespaces" just as you wouldn't have "2 breads", "2 softwares", "2 musics" etc. Instead, you'd say "2 whitespace characters". That said, I'm sure there's a bit more variation on this than with "bread". – Neil Coffey May 14 '11 at 11:19
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