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From: Mike Mazur <mmazur@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:15:40
Message-Id: 184110a70811200515t4e5bcc0cx1e12441102e93bc7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken by Kevin O'Gorman
1 Hi,
2
3 On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
5 >> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote:
6 >>> With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
7 >>> something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
8 >>> Firefox 3 this no longer happens.
9 >>
10 >> In Epiphany at least I was able to enable it with the following
11 >> about:config options:
12 >>
13 >> spellchecker.dictionary = "en_US"
14 >> layout.spellcheckDefault = 2
15 >>
16 >> You may want to specify 1 instead of 2 if you only want spellchecking in
17 >> <textarea>s
18 >
19 > Interesting. Spelling has been working here just fine as in "it just
20 > works", but I checked my settings, and I had
21 > spellchecker.dictionary = "en-US"
22 > with a hyphen instead of underscore. It said "user set" but I didn't
23 > do it. Significant?
24
25 I also found spellchecker.dictionary = "en-US" in my settings. No
26 combination of layout.spellcheckDefault and spellchecker.dictionary as
27 suggested above fixes the issue, though.
28
29 Mike