Comment 1 for bug 487489

This is probably not the "Right Way" to fix this, but it works for me:

=== modified file 'gwibber/gwui.py'
--- gwibber/gwui.py 2009-10-22 11:43:06 +0000
+++ gwibber/gwui.py 2009-11-25 17:24:19 +0000
@@ -452,7 +452,11 @@
     self.error_color = gtk.gdk.color_parse("indianred")

     if gtkspell:
- self.spell = gtkspell.Spell(self, None)
+ try:
+ self.spell = gtkspell.Spell(self, None)
+ except:
+ self.spell = None
+ pass

   def get_text(self):
     buf = self.get_buffer()