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regarding iceweasel: Check spelling state not persistent
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 10.0-1~bpo60+1
Severity: normal
NB I'm running the Debian Mozilla team's release.
I was on such a bpo release before bpo60, but I noticed the
bpo60 upgrade a few days ago and that's when this problem
started.
As I remember previous versions, you'd enable spell checking
by selecting "Check my spelling as I type" on
Preferences->Advanced->General,
and that would enable "Check spelling" on any text
entry fields on webpages.
Since the latest upgrade, the "Check Spelling" option
(found by right clicking on a text entry field on a page)
is never checked. It can be switched on in the right-click
menu and will then work (and the language used last _is_
remembered) but it'll be necessary to enable it again in
every text field on the same page, in any new tabs,
and after firefox is shut down and started again.
Once enabled in a field, spell checking does work fine, and
it's clearly seeing all the same dictionaries it used to.
Yes the preferences option is checked! I tried clearing it
and setting again; makes no difference. I've tried moving
my ~/.mozilla/firefox aside but a clean slate makes no difference.
Running in safe mode makes no difference.
A workround is obviously to manually set "Check spelling" on
every text field you're writing in.
Possibly related bug: #609111
-- Package-specific info:
-- Addons package information
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.11.3-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities
ii xulrunner-10.0 10.0-1~bpo60+1 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii latex-xft-fonts 1.6.7-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libkrb53 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 transitional package for MIT Kerbe
pn mozplugger <none> (no description available)
ii ttf-lyx 1.6.7-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available)
ii xfonts-mathml 4 Type1 Symbol font for MathML
Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 depends on:
ii libasoun 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1. 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbz2-1 1.0.5-6+squeeze1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.3-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo 1.10.2-6~bpo60+1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus- 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus- 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii libfontc 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreet 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libglib2 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2. 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunsp 1.2.11-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg6 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmozjs 10.0-1~bpo60+1 Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript li
ii libnotif 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libnspr4 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3- 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1~bpo60+1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpixma 0.24.0-1~bpo60+1 pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii libreadl 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libsqlit 3.7.8-1~bpo60+1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstart 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc+ 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libvpx0 0.9.7.p1-2.squeeze2 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrend 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
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Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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