Public bug reported: I've been searching for the solution to this bug for a long time.
Firefox's spell-check, despite my locale being en-US, sets itself to en- GB, en-ZA or something en_US, which isn't even correct. The problem, it seems, is that Firefox uses whatever spell-checking backends you have installed - aspell, myspell, and hunspell. The result is that Firefox chooses, en-GB as the default spell checker more-often than not. So I uninstalled myspell, hunspell, and a package called firefox-locale-en and now everything is correct - only one spell checker is installed in Firefox. The language selector, however, always prompts to reinstall these backends whenever it is loaded. This Firefox add-on can assist, it gives you a list of dictionaries installed: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary- switcher/ ** Affects: firefox Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: hunspell Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: language-selector Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: myspell Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: aspell firefox hunspell language-selector locale myspell ** Also affects: firefox Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: myspell Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: hunspell Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: language-selector Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: I've been searching for the solution to this bug for a long time. Firefox's spell-check, despite my locale being en-US, sets itself to en- GB, en-ZA or something en_US, which isn't even correct. The problem, it seems, is that Firefox uses whatever spell-checking backends you have installed - aspell, myspell, and hunspell. The result is that Firefox chooses, en-GB as the default spell checker more-often than not. So I uninstalled myspell, hunspell, and a package called firefox-locale-en and now everything is correct - only one spell checker is installed in Firefox. The language selector, however, always prompts to reinstall these backends whenever it is loaded. + + This Firefox add-on can assist, it gives you a list of dictionaries + installed: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary- + switcher/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1026869 Title: Firefox accepts dictionaries and spell check entries from every which spell check backend, leaving problems with defaults and the language selector enables this behavior To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1026869/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
