Anyone else seeing this Firefox spell-checker weirdness?
Last edited Sun Jan 8, 2012, 06:41 PM - Edit history (1)
I rely on the spell-checker as much as the next engineer which means it's pretty much indispensable.
With my recent upgrade to 9.0.1, I've started seeing words I knew were spelled correctly, such as 'color' flagged as incorrect. Well, it didn't long to discover that the dictionary had changed to UK English. I thought that that was a little weird so I changed it back to US English and things were fine until it happened again. And again. Now it seems like I'm having to reset it several times a day and it's gotten so bad that now, when I see a word flagged, I must first check to make sure it's using the correct dictionary.
Before I dig deeper like rooting through the about:config file or filing a bug report, I just wanted to first see if anyone else is seeing this.
Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv: 9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
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And the last ten months have been busy for our friends at Mozilla who have taken the FF version from 3.x to 9.x. But my OS install has remained the same for almost two years (Ubuntu FTS).
But anyway, I think I may have found it (I think). Filtering the about:config file for 'dict" yielded:
I changed it to US. I guess that's it. Unless something is changing that setting. We'll see.
