Hi Chris, Thanks for the suggestion. This is definitely a UI quirk and bug. I had to enable the "Check Spelling" option first in the drop-down menu. Then I could access the "Languages" option. So strange. The correct way to set this should be through the Firefox preferences, as my screenshots document.
Thanks again for the heads up though. Perhaps Mozilla can fix this in the future. Maybe I will notify upstream... On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Chris Conway <[email protected]> wrote: > I had the same problem. en-US is the default GNOME language, the default > returned by "locale", and even the "preferred language for displaying > pages." But the en-GB dictionary was the spell-checking default. > > This is easily fixed in the preference settings (right-click in a > textbox, choose a setting from "Languages"), but a little strange. Also, > the fix is not immediately obvious, because language settings are > displayed in many separate parts of the Firefox UI. For example, there > is no en-US module listed in the "Add-Ons -> Languages" tab, so I > thought I might have to go download one at first, but it turns out this > panel is not really relevant to the question at hand---it's not an > exhaustive list of installed language modules, only of "add-on" modules > (whatever that means). > > It seems also that the dictionary setting is *only* available via a > right-click in a textbox, and not through the Preferences UI. This is > hardly intuitive. > > I realize these UI infelicities aren't properly reported here. I mention > them as support for the notion that the firefox package ought to set the > right defaults---fixing the setting can be confusing. > > -- > Firefox spellchecker is not honoring the native language support specified in > the Firefox configuration > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320266 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Kristian Erik Hermansen Have you tried Session Destroyer yet? <http://kristian.hermansen.googlepages.com/session.destroyer.html> -- Firefox spellchecker is not honoring the native language support specified in the Firefox configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320266 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
