A text area marks correct words as spelling errors
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Suppose a page, like at <http://
Steps to reproduce:
1. Switch to Polish dictionary, or any other non-English.
2. Enter some English text in text area #1, e.g. "An icon on your desktop that you can use to open a file". Firefox correctly marks a few words as spelling errors.
3. Enter the same text in text area #2. Firefox correctly marks a few words as syntax errors.
4. Go to text area #1 and switch to English. Firefox removes the error marks in text area #1 but not in text area #2.
5. Go to text area #2 and realize that you cannot switch to English because the selected dictionary is English already.
There are four viable alternatives:
A. Validate text in all text areas upon a dictionary switch.
B. (Preferred). Make the selected dictionary local to the text area.
C. (A bit weird). Allow switching from English to English in order to recheck. (The current workaround is to disable and enable spell checking).
D. Add a "Recheck" context-dependent command.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 30 20:16:38 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux a1dmin.
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.