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