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Bug 525574

Summary: Firefox does not spell check with all dictionaries on system
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) <scarabeus>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-10-16 14:42:39 UTC
Firefox uses /usr/lib64/firefox/dictionaries/ while it should probably point to /usr/share/hunspell/ or /usr/share/myspell/ to use system wide dictionary packages.
Comment 1 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-10-16 14:46:10 UTC
Which version(s) are you referring to on this one?  If you've just checked one that would suffice, i just need a starting point to figure out why the system hunspell (with all of its system dictionary paths or w/e) aren't used instead.
Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-10-16 15:16:19 UTC
I am doing this with ff 31.1.1.
Comment 3 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-10-16 16:08:38 UTC
Please check about:config , the 'spellchecker.dictionary_path' setting.  What value is that holding?

Gentoo's ebuilds set this path to /usr/share/myspell by default via the 'all-gentoo.js' prefs file.  The /usr/lib64/firefox/dictionaries path should still be included in the code, though not explicitly set in prefs.js, so that any extra user-installed dictionaries (via extensions) are still used.  If you have dictionaries there -and- in the system i believe it will allow the extensions-installed one to take precedence, and that is likely the desired behaviour.
Comment 4 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-10-17 08:37:32 UTC
Weird it is set to /usr/share/myspell in the about:config value

But still I get no spellchecking in firefox, in chromium it works well. :/
Comment 5 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2014-10-26 17:46:17 UTC
(In reply to Tomáš Chvátal from comment #4)
> Weird it is set to /usr/share/myspell in the about:config value
> 
> But still I get no spellchecking in firefox, in chromium it works well. :/

right click in any text box go down to languages and select which you prefer to be used
Comment 6 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2017-08-26 17:55:44 UTC
If you feel I have closed your bug and it is still a current issue, please reopen and update it completely. We will not work bugs that have no ebuild in tree any longer or can not be reproduced with a current system.

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