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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Mike Mazur <mmazur@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:21:21
Message-Id: 200811201521.07472.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken by Mike Mazur
1 On Thursday 20 November 2008 15:12:49 Mike Mazur wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
5 wrote:
6 > > Well, my ff-3.0.4 works correctly, so you at least have a working install
7 > > to compare to. Mine was a case of 'emerge mozilla-firefox", oh look, it
8 > > works
9 >
10 > Yeah, I haven't been able to find any bugs or threads on this issue,
11 > so it seems I got unlucky.
12 >
13 > > What linguas do you have in USE, and what spell checkers are installed?
14 >
15 > I added LINGUAS="en en_US" into my make.conf, I never had LINGUAS
16 > specified before today. The issue persists with this LINGUAS setting.
17 >
18 > The packages I have installed that match "spell" are:
19 > $ equery l spell
20 > [ Searching for package 'spell' in all categories among: ]
21 > * installed packages
22 > [I--] [ ] app-dicts/aspell-en-6.0.0 (0)
23 > [I--] [ ] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 (0)
24 > [I--] [ ] app-text/gtkspell-2.0.14 (0)
25 > [I--] [ ] app-text/hunspell-1.2.6 (0)
26 >
27 > I should also note that spell checking works fine in Pidgin, though I
28 > think Pidgin has its own spell checker somehow. I also just tried in
29 > Opera, and automatic spell checking doesn't seem to work either, but
30 > I'm not sure if it ever worked, I only use Opera seldom for testing.
31
32 Apart from also having myspell-af + myspell-en, plsu not having gtkspell, my
33 install has the same packages as yours. Must be a weird config thing.
34
35 Try creating a new temp user and running firefox in that. AT least then you'll
36 know if you need to dig through .firefox or not
37
38 --
39 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com