Bug 530914

Summary:	Firefox does not spell check
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Hubbard <jameshubbard>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	campbecg, gecko-bugs-nobody, jlaska, mcepl
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Description James Hubbard 2009-10-26 01:36:06 UTC

Description of problem:
Spell checking is not working in Firefox.  Typically when entering text in a browser window for things such as this text box, firefox will place a red line under text that is misspelled.  This is not functioning.  To enable this, I had to go to the mozilla website and download a US Dictionary. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-3.5.3-1.fc12.i686

How reproducible:
Works on all new install of Fedora 12 Beta. 

  
Actual results:
Doesn't provide visual indication of mis-spelled words

Expected results:
Red line under misspelled words in text entry boxes.

Additional info:

Comment 1 James Laska 2009-10-27 17:38:21 UTC

I believe I encountered this problem when I first installed F-12 a while ago.

Can you tell me:
 1) How you installed Fedora 12
 2) Output from the command:

$ rpm -qa *spell*
hunspell-en-0.20090216-7.fc12.noarch
aspell-0.60.6-7.fc12.i686
aspell-en-6.0-11.fc12.i686
gtkspell-2.0.15-2.fc12.i686
hunspell-1.2.8-12.fc12.i686

Comment 2 James Hubbard 2009-10-27 17:45:26 UTC

Used the F12 Beta LiveCD on a USB key. I had it format the / partition and leave the /home partition intact. So, it's a fresh install. 

The only ones installed are:
hunspell-1.2.8-12
gtkspell-2.0.15

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2009-10-29 02:23:49 UTC

You need to install language packages for hunspell (most likely hunspell-en in your case).

What is the value of variable layout.spellcheckDefault (in about:config)?

If the installation of the dictionary package doesn't help, please, run

package-cleanup --problems
rpm -Va

and paste here (or attach as file).

Thank you very much

Comment 4 James Hubbard 2009-10-29 02:35:28 UTC

Installing the hunspell-en dictionary fixed the problem.  Will the dictionaries be included on the LiveCD?

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 14:19:35 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 6 Chris Campbell 2010-05-28 13:50:17 UTC


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