* Landry Breuil <[email protected]> [2013-09-18 15:07:54 +0200]:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:25:49PM +0100, James Griffin wrote:
> > I'm using 5.4 current - Sep 17th snapshot. I've got Firefox 23.0 installed 
> > and the en_GB mozilla language pack. However, when typing in the browser it 
> > doesn't recognise any words at all. The correct dictionary is installed so 
> > i'm not sure what's wrong. Of course, there is an option to install a 
> > language pack as an add-on to firefox, but as i've installed it as a 
> > package/port I shouldn't need to do that. 
> > 
> > Has anyone else noticed this?
> 
> It's been brought to my attention, but i've never used or tried
> spellchecking, so i'm out of ideas to debug this. I suspect this is
> related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429023 and the
> fact that we still have
> www/mozilla-firefox/patches/patch-extensions_spellcheck_hunspell_src_mozHunspell_cpp,
> which ought to be replaced by a prefs.js patch, but i never found the
> time to do the change & properly test it. What if you tweak about:config
> and set spellchecker.dictonary_path to /usr/local/share/mozilla-dicts ?
> 
> i'd definitely welcome a 'spell checker' section in
> mozilla-firefox/pkg/README from someone knowing how it works and how to
> configure it, in the way it is done for langpacks..
> 
> Landry

Hi Landry, i've had a look: there is only "spellchecker.dictionary"; no 
"spellchecker.dictionary_path". The current setting for the former is :

"user set" under the "status" column, "string" under the "Type" column and 
"en-GB" under the "Value" column. 

Do you want me to add something to test it further?

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