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firefox-3.5 package

The English locale for Firefox is wrong

Bug #487853 reported by Gannin on 2009-11-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #333799: Default dictionary is unspecified (was Firefox uses en-GB by default instead of en-US). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Even though my system is installed for the English / American locale, Firefox is using the English-GB locale instead, which means the dictionary and spell checking is a bit off.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 24 13:56:42 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

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Gannin (spacesword) wrote on 2009-11-24:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (674 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profile_default_pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (5.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Steve McGrath (smcgrath23) wrote on 2009-11-24:

Confirmed. I know there's a few duplicates of this issue but I don't have time to search right now. Here's the workaround, anyway:

Right click in a text box that has spellchecking. Click Languages, set en_US.

Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2009-11-25:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 333799, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.