[Bug 320266] Re: Firefox spellchecker is not honoring the native language support specified in the Firefox configuration

[Chris Conway]

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.

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Firefox spellchecker is not honoring the native language support specified in the Firefox configuration
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320266
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