On Thursday 20 November 2008 15:12:49 Mike Mazur wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, my ff-3.0.4 works correctly, so you at least have a working install > > to compare to. Mine was a case of 'emerge mozilla-firefox", oh look, it > > works > > Yeah, I haven't been able to find any bugs or threads on this issue, > so it seems I got unlucky. > > > What linguas do you have in USE, and what spell checkers are installed? > > I added LINGUAS="en en_US" into my make.conf, I never had LINGUAS > specified before today. The issue persists with this LINGUAS setting. > > The packages I have installed that match "spell" are: > $ equery l spell > [ Searching for package 'spell' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] app-dicts/aspell-en-6.0.0 (0) > [I--] [ ] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 (0) > [I--] [ ] app-text/gtkspell-2.0.14 (0) > [I--] [ ] app-text/hunspell-1.2.6 (0) > > I should also note that spell checking works fine in Pidgin, though I > think Pidgin has its own spell checker somehow. I also just tried in > Opera, and automatic spell checking doesn't seem to work either, but > I'm not sure if it ever worked, I only use Opera seldom for testing.
Apart from also having myspell-af + myspell-en, plsu not having gtkspell, my install has the same packages as yours. Must be a weird config thing. Try creating a new temp user and running firefox in that. AT least then you'll know if you need to dig through .firefox or not -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
