This is due to the fact that they use different spell engines: - gedit (and pidgin) use aspell - firefox (and thunderbird and openoffice) use hunspell
-- Firefox uses a different user dictionary for spell checking than gedit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs