[gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

[Mike Mazur]

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

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

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 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?

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

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

[felix]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:05:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon 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

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

[Mike Mazur]

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.

Mike

PS Apologies for re-replying, this time to all

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

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:33:54 Mike Mazur wrote:
> 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?

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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

[Mike Mazur]

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.

Mike

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

[Alan McKinnon]

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

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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

[Paul Hartman]

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

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

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

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

[Mike Mazur]

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

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

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Mike Mazur <mmazur@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

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

[»Q«]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:15:31 +0900
"Mike Mazur" <mmazur@gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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?

If your language is en-US only, the ebuild isn't supposed to try to get
an xpi language pack, but that's only because en-US spellchecking
support comes with the main source tarball the ebuild gets.

AFAICT, the ebuild is designed to get the generic en-US Firefox source
then get xpis for any additional languages, so everybody gets an
en-US Firefox to start with.  The en-US language pack at a.m.o should
only be needed by people (non-Gentooers) who've installed a localized
build of Firefox and later want to add en-US support.

I can't tell what's going wrong with that plan, but there's definitely
something  screwy with Fx 3.0.4 and the spellchecking.  I've tried
looking at the ebuild, but I can't explain the behavior you're seeing.
(Or what I'm seeing -- en-AU got pulled in and was set as my default
dictionary somehow.)

-- 
»Q«
     Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.

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

[Albert Hopkins]

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

HTH,
-a

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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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:
>> 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?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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

[Mike Mazur]

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

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

[Mike Mazur]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Mike Mazur <mmazur@gmail.com> 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.
>
> 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