This is due to the fact that they use different spell engines:
- gedit (and pidgin) use aspell
- firefox (and thunderbird and openoffice) use hunspell

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Firefox uses a different user dictionary for spell checking than gedit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132835
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