RicklesP wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
rick-shar wrote:
Just upgraded 2 Win10 laptops to SM 2.53.5 (thanks loads, devs!), in
the UK. On my own laptop, I have the British English Dictionary
(Marco Pinto) v2.68, which lists in the Add-On Mgr under the category
'Dictionaries'. On my wife's laptop, before the SM version update,
she'd complained about only having the English (US) language
available for spell-checking, which causes issues whenever composing
emails for UK recipients.
On that laptop, I've added the latest Marco Pinto Dictionary v2.90
from the Add-Ons site, but it only lists as an Extension, not a
Dictionary, so can't be selected for spell-checking.
That happens if you install a WebExtension-based dictionary in
SeaMonkey, as mentioned under "Extensions (Add-ons) and Themes" in the
release notes. It seems even the ones hosted on
addons.thunderbird.net may be WebExtensions now but don't work with
SeaMonkey - see e.g.
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555116>.
I'm currently using v2.68 of British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto).
You can download older versions by following the "See complete version
history" link near the bottom of
<https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/seamonkey/addon/british-english-dictionary-2/>.
There, 2.68 is explicitly mentioned as being a legacy extension, and
there's mention of this 2.70 already being a WebExtension. It's not
clear which 2.69 is, so that might perhaps work, or it might be that
2.68 is the last that works in current SeaMonkey.
If you right-click the "Download Now" button, you can select "Save
Link Target As..." to download the .xpi file for the extension rather
than immediately installing it. That way you've got it in case you
need to install it again in future. From about:addons, you can
install an extension from an .xpi file by clicking the cog icon near
the top right and selecting "Install Add-on From File..."
On my own laptop, the v2.68 installed doesn't appear to have any
means of updating as-is, but it is working as expected.
It might be that's the latest which actually works with SeaMonkey. Or
it may be related to the fact that update checks for the main
application don't work. As far as I can see, 2.69 is the only newer
version which might possibly work - so you could try downloading and
installing that as above, but be prepared to revert back to 2.68 if it
doesn't work.
So it looks like I have 2 separate issues. Any suggestions?
Mark, etc,
Now that I've had time to try, I've downloaded v2.68 and (?)successfully
installed it into my wife's laptop. It shows up in the Add-On Mgr
screen as a loaded Dictionary, but is not available to select anywhere.
Whether composing a new email or as the default language under
Properties - Appearance - Spelling, the only entry in her SM v2.53.5
install is for the default English-US. And of course, the link for 'add
more dictionaries' takes me to the Thunderbird add-ons download page,
for what that's worth.
I really don't want to abandon SM, but if my English wife can't compose
emails in her own language in the mail client, what's the point? I've
been a loyal Netscape/Mozilla/SM user for some time, but I'm not a
developer. My skill set is in system administration, not programming.
My thanks to all who replied with additional suggestions, but it has
been sorted, finally. Not only did the v2.68 install didn't work even
after SM and then the laptop restarts, but attempting to use the
'download more dictionaries' link didn't do anything--no web page, no
nothing. With no other changes, I installed v2.53.5.1 on top of the
current setup, and the v2.68 English-UK dictionary is now listed as
such, and is now set as the default. Composition tests with spell check
work as you'd expect, that way.
I have no idea what was corrupted, but the latest install did something
and all is now well.
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