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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 20 November 2008 15:12:49 Mike Mazur 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.
>
> > 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

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