The automatic spell checker underlines every word as misspelled even though I have an english dictonary installed

[Tank_Girl344]

Binary package hint: firefox

I'm using Unbuntu 7.10, the Gusty Gibbon release. This copy was pre-loaded on my computer from Dell.

When I type words into text boxes Firefox underlines every single word as misspelled. I've tried installing differant english dictonaries, but it as though spellchecker is on, but can't find the dictonary to compare words to.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 29 13:54:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: hsfengine
Package: firefox 2.0.0.12+2nobinonly+2-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux ThinkPink 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Shae Smittle (starfall87-deactivatedaccount)]

I had this problem until I tried this:

Open a new tab and navigate to about:config.

Search spellchecker.dictionary and change the value of that to en_US.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Sorry but Firefox-2 is getting near EOS and they wont be fixing anything but major issues security issues mainly. Please try to reproduce this with Firefox-3.0 if you can reproduce this bug please click on Help > Report a problem and file the bug that way. This does not mean that it wasn't already fixed.

[Shae Smittle (starfall87-deactivatedaccount)]

It isn't a bug. Firefox is just not set to the proper dictionary because Dell ships Ubuntu with all the language dictionaries by default and I do not think the Ubuntu installer sets firefox's dictionary when you select a language in it.