In fact, the situation appears to be more complicated, and points to a race condition of some sort.
Having fixed the problem, I thought I'd try a theory about what causes it. So, I removed the dictionary and restarted Firefox. However, my spelling language was still correctly set to en-GB. Further, I can no longer reproduce the problem in a fresh profile, which of course does not have the dictionary installed. I should stress that the only thing I changed in any of this was my Firefox profile; I did not add, remove or otherwise alter any Ubuntu package. Hence, I really can't see what could have fixed the problem (since it has gone from being reproducible with a fresh profile to not being reproducible with a fresh profile), and I wonder whether there may be a race condition; not least, because the code that scans for dictionaries runs asynchronously. -- 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 Mozilla Firefox: New Status in Hunspell: New Status in myspell: New Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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
