[Bug 1026869] Re: Firefox accepts dictionaries and spell check entries from every which spell check backend, leaving problems with defaults and the language selector enables this behavior

[Timur Tabi]

I have installed the en-us language pack in Firefox, and I've tried many
of the "fixes" I found on the Internet, but this problem remains for me.
For instance, "honor" is flagged but "honour" is not flagged.  The
"English (US) Language Pack" add-on is installed.

One interesting observation: when I go under Preferences->Language, I
see that en-us is selected as the default.  When I click on Set
Alternatives, but the drop-down also shows en-gb and en-ca.  I can click
on Canada and UK and remove them, and they show as removed.  However,
after I restart, those two languages come back.  So there appears to be
no way to actually remove those languages.

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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

Status in Mozilla Firefox:
  New
Status in Hunspell:
  New
Status in myspell:
  New
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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/

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