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[gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken
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Mike Mazur
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:00 pm    Post subject: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
Hi,

With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
Firefox 3 this no longer happens.

I've looked at USE flags for mozilla-firefox and xulrunner and don't
see anything that indicates aspell or similar.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Mike
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Alan McKinnon
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:10 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
Firefox 3 this no longer happens.

I've looked at USE flags for mozilla-firefox and xulrunner and don't
see anything that indicates aspell or similar.

What am I missing?

edit -> preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Browsing

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:30 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:05:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Quote:
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote:
With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
Firefox 3 this no longer happens.

edit -> preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Browsing

What I see is random words with red squiggly underlines. I never
cared much for spell checkers, but it used to at least be correct.
Now it seems like half the words will be underlines regardless of
anything approaching correct spelling.>

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Mike Mazur
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:40 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote:
With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
Firefox 3 this no longer happens.


edit -> preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Browsing

Unfortunately, this is not the culprit. This setting has always been
set, and still no spell check.

Mike

PS Apologies for re-replying, this time to all
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Alan McKinnon
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:20 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:33:54 Mike Mazur wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote:
With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
Firefox 3 this no longer happens.

edit -> preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Browsing

Unfortunately, this is not the culprit. This setting has always been
set, and still no spell check.

Well, my ff-3.0.4 works correctly, so you at least have a working install to
compare to. Mine was a case of 'emerge mozilla-firefox", oh look, it works

What linguas do you have in USE, and what spell checkers are installed?

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Albert Hopkins
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:10 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
Firefox 3 this no longer happens.

I've looked at USE flags for mozilla-firefox and xulrunner and don't
see anything that indicates aspell or similar.

What am I missing?


In Epiphany at least I was able to enable it with the following
about:config options:

spellchecker.dictionary = "en_US"
layout.spellcheckDefault = 2

You may want to specify 1 instead of 2 if you only want spellchecking in
<textarea>s

HTH,
-a
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Kevin O'Gorman
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:30 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
Quote:
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote:
Hi,

With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
Firefox 3 this no longer happens.

I've looked at USE flags for mozilla-firefox and xulrunner and don't
see anything that indicates aspell or similar.

What am I missing?


In Epiphany at least I was able to enable it with the following
about:config options:

spellchecker.dictionary = "en_US"
layout.spellcheckDefault = 2

You may want to specify 1 instead of 2 if you only want spellchecking in
textarea>s

Interesting. Spelling has been working here just fine as in "it just
works", but I checked my settings, and I had
spellchecker.dictionary = "en-US"
with a hyphen instead of underscore. It said "user set" but I didn't
do it. Significant?

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Mike Mazur
Guest
PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:20 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
Well, my ff-3.0.4 works correctly, so you at least have a working install to
compare to. Mine was a case of 'emerge mozilla-firefox", oh look, it works

Yeah, I haven't been able to find any bugs or threads on this issue,
so it seems I got unlucky.

Quote:
What linguas do you have in USE, and what spell checkers are installed?

I added LINGUAS="en en_US" into my make.conf, I never had LINGUAS
specified before today. The issue persists with this LINGUAS setting.

The packages I have installed that match "spell" are:
$ equery l spell
[ Searching for package 'spell' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ] app-dicts/aspell-en-6.0.0 (0)
[I--] [ ] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 (0)
[I--] [ ] app-text/gtkspell-2.0.14 (0)
[I--] [ ] app-text/hunspell-1.2.6 (0)

I should also note that spell checking works fine in Pidgin, though I
think Pidgin has its own spell checker somehow. I also just tried in
Opera, and automatic spell checking doesn't seem to work either, but
I'm not sure if it ever worked, I only use Opera seldom for testing.

Mike
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Mike Mazur
Guest
PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:20 pm    Post subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Mike Mazur <mmazur@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
Firefox 3 this no longer happens.

I've looked at USE flags for mozilla-firefox and xulrunner and don't
see anything that indicates aspell or similar.

What am I missing?

I thought maybe it was some extension preventing the automatic spell
check, so I moved my ~/.mozilla folder and started a brand new
Firefox, but the issue remains.

Mike
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Mike Mazur
Guest
PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:20 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
Hi,

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote:
With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled
something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to
Firefox 3 this no longer happens.

In Epiphany at least I was able to enable it with the following
about:config options:

spellchecker.dictionary = "en_US"
layout.spellcheckDefault = 2

You may want to specify 1 instead of 2 if you only want spellchecking in
textarea>s

Interesting. Spelling has been working here just fine as in "it just
works", but I checked my settings, and I had
spellchecker.dictionary = "en-US"
with a hyphen instead of underscore. It said "user set" but I didn't
do it. Significant?

I also found spellchecker.dictionary = "en-US" in my settings. No
combination of layout.spellcheckDefault and spellchecker.dictionary as
suggested above fixes the issue, though.

Mike
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Alan McKinnon
Guest
PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:30 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
On Thursday 20 November 2008 15:12:49 Mike Mazur wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
wrote:
Well, my ff-3.0.4 works correctly, so you at least have a working install
to compare to. Mine was a case of 'emerge mozilla-firefox", oh look, it
works

Yeah, I haven't been able to find any bugs or threads on this issue,
so it seems I got unlucky.

What linguas do you have in USE, and what spell checkers are installed?

I added LINGUAS="en en_US" into my make.conf, I never had LINGUAS
specified before today. The issue persists with this LINGUAS setting.

The packages I have installed that match "spell" are:
$ equery l spell
[ Searching for package 'spell' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ] app-dicts/aspell-en-6.0.0 (0)
[I--] [ ] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 (0)
[I--] [ ] app-text/gtkspell-2.0.14 (0)
[I--] [ ] app-text/hunspell-1.2.6 (0)

I should also note that spell checking works fine in Pidgin, though I
think Pidgin has its own spell checker somehow. I also just tried in
Opera, and automatic spell checking doesn't seem to work either, but
I'm not sure if it ever worked, I only use Opera seldom for testing.

Apart from also having myspell-af + myspell-en, plsu not having gtkspell, my
install has the same packages as yours. Must be a weird config thing.

Try creating a new temp user and running firefox in that. AT least then you'll
know if you need to dig through .firefox or not

--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Paul Hartman
Guest
PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:30 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Mike Mazur <mmazur@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, my ff-3.0.4 works correctly, so you at least have a working install to
compare to. Mine was a case of 'emerge mozilla-firefox", oh look, it works

Yeah, I haven't been able to find any bugs or threads on this issue,
so it seems I got unlucky.

Here is a recent similar thread on the forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-715392.html
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Paul Hartman
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:30 am    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Mike Mazur <mmazur@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, my ff-3.0.4 works correctly, so you at least have a working install to
compare to. Mine was a case of 'emerge mozilla-firefox", oh look, it works

Yeah, I haven't been able to find any bugs or threads on this issue,
so it seems I got unlucky.

Here is a recent similar thread on the forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-715392.html

I may have already missed it in this thread -- but I must ask the obvious:

If you right-click in a text-entry field, is "Check spelling" enabled?
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Mike Mazur
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:20 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
Hi,

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
I may have already missed it in this thread -- but I must ask the obvious:

If you right-click in a text-entry field, is "Check spelling" enabled?

This was it.

When I right clicked in a text area, I didn't see the "Check spelling"
option, but I did see "Add dictionaries..." which brought me to the
addons.mozilla.com Dictionary & Language Packs site[1]. I installed
the US English pack and now spell checking works as expected.

I had no clue I had to install the language pack myself. Isn't that
portage's job?

Thank you so much for that pointer!
Mike

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3
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Paul Hartman
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:10 pm    Post subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken Reply with quote
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Mike Mazur <mmazur@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
I may have already missed it in this thread -- but I must ask the obvious:

If you right-click in a text-entry field, is "Check spelling" enabled?

This was it.

When I right clicked in a text area, I didn't see the "Check spelling"
option, but I did see "Add dictionaries..." which brought me to the
addons.mozilla.com Dictionary & Language Packs site[1]. I installed
the US English pack and now spell checking works as expected.

I had no clue I had to install the language pack myself. Isn't that
portage's job?

Thank you so much for that pointer!
Mike

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3

That's good to hear! I completely forgot about that option, too, until
I accidentally noticed it and remembered this thread. I'm glad I could
(belatedly) help.

Thanks,
Paul
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