Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

["Mike Mazur" <mmazur@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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