Firefox lists duplicate dictionaries (those installed on the system and in Firefox)

[Fred]

Binary package hint: firefox

When right-clicking in a text-area and looking under Languages in the context menu, Firefox lists some of the entries twice. For example:

* English / Australia
* English / Australia
* English / Canada
* English / South Africa
* English / United Kingdom
* English / United Kingdom
* English / United States
* English / United States

This is due to Firefox using both the language dictionaries installed on the system, as well as the dictionaries installed in Firefox itself.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 6 14:06:04 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.3/firefox
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
InterpreterPath: /bin/dash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Draycen DeCator (ddecator)]

I can confirm this on my system. It appears that Firefox lists one item for the languages installed on the Ubuntu system, and a second (sometimes identical) item for the languages installed in Firefox itself.

[Draycen DeCator (ddecator)]

This was originally reported as bug 66015, and Mozilla has since fixed their end of the problem. Now the symlinks need to be fixed downstream so that this does not happen. Marking Triaged and Low, and this report can be used to track the progress on this bug.

Thanks again for reporting this to Ubuntu, and please continue to let us know about any bugs you encounter!

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This should actually be fixed with bug 590450, so I marking this a duplicate. Please report any other issues you may find.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Sorry for the bug noise. Deduplicating this since the directory change was the first step to removing the duplicates. We still have a few duplicate dictionaries.

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

Same error. It's very annoying.
In the same way that I can disable langpack in Firefox menu,I should be able to disable dictionaries.