Public bug reported: I've been searching for the solution to this bug for a long time.
Firefox's spell-check, despite my locale being en-US, sets itself to en- GB, en-ZA or something en_US, which isn't even correct. The problem, it seems, is that Firefox uses whatever spell-checking backends you have installed - aspell, myspell, and hunspell. The result is that Firefox chooses, en-GB as the default spell checker more-often than not. So I uninstalled myspell, hunspell, and a package called firefox-locale-en and now everything is correct - only one spell checker is installed in Firefox. The language selector, however, always prompts to reinstall these backends whenever it is loaded. This Firefox add-on can assist, it gives you a list of dictionaries installed: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary- switcher/ ** Affects: firefox Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: hunspell Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: language-selector Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: myspell Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: aspell firefox hunspell language-selector locale myspell ** Also affects: firefox Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: myspell Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: hunspell Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: language-selector Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: I've been searching for the solution to this bug for a long time. Firefox's spell-check, despite my locale being en-US, sets itself to en- GB, en-ZA or something en_US, which isn't even correct. The problem, it seems, is that Firefox uses whatever spell-checking backends you have installed - aspell, myspell, and hunspell. The result is that Firefox chooses, en-GB as the default spell checker more-often than not. So I uninstalled myspell, hunspell, and a package called firefox-locale-en and now everything is correct - only one spell checker is installed in Firefox. The language selector, however, always prompts to reinstall these backends whenever it is loaded. + + This Firefox add-on can assist, it gives you a list of dictionaries + installed: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary- + switcher/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1026869 Title: Firefox accepts dictionaries and spell check entries from every which spell check backend, leaving problems with defaults and the language selector enables this behavior Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: New Status in Hunspell: New Status in Ubuntu language selector: New Status in MySpell: New Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I've been searching for the solution to this bug for a long time. Firefox's spell-check, despite my locale being en-US, sets itself to en-GB, en-ZA or something en_US, which isn't even correct. The problem, it seems, is that Firefox uses whatever spell-checking backends you have installed - aspell, myspell, and hunspell. The result is that Firefox chooses, en-GB as the default spell checker more-often than not. So I uninstalled myspell, hunspell, and a package called firefox-locale-en and now everything is correct - only one spell checker is installed in Firefox. The language selector, however, always prompts to reinstall these backends whenever it is loaded. This Firefox add-on can assist, it gives you a list of dictionaries installed: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary- switcher/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1026869/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
