Spelling check shows too many dictionaries

[Atti]

Binary package hint: firefox

When you right click a text box Firefox gives you the option to choose the dictionary for the spelling check.
The problem is that if you speak languages like english (US variant, UK variant, Australian variant..) and spanish (Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua...) the list gets HUGE! (as shown in the attached picture)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: firefox 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 19 02:07:37 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
 firefox-branding 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Anonymous Meerkat (lkjoel)]

Need more info.
What myspell/hunspell packages do you have?

[Anonymous Meerkat (lkjoel)]

... and what dictionaries do you want?

[Atti (atti84it)]

Theese are the packages that are installed at the moment:
myspell-en-au myspell-en-za myspell-fr myspell-en-gb myspell-es myspell-it

Each of them provides several dictionaries. I want only one of each language, it doesn't really matter which one, so this is just an example: English (UK), Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian (Italy).

There's a similar discussion here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9806282

[Atti (atti84it)]

I've found a workaround for this problem:
Go to /usr/share/hunspell and delete all the symbolic links (as root), then restart Firefox

I still think that common users shouldn't need to become root and delete symlinks to change this trivial option!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[José Lou Chang (obake)]

This has been going on for far too many years. I believe it is imperative that we do not flood with MANY dictionaries when we just want one. It is extremely impractical to have to scroll the long menu items to find the desired dictionary.

When installing Spanish dictionary such as myspell-es, it installs TWENTY-ONE Spanish dictionaries from diverse countries. This is in contrast to the English dictionaries where each dialect has their own package (myspell-en-au, myspell-en-us, etc)

[José Lou Chang (obake)]

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04, the current version of Ubuntu.