Firefox uses a different user dictionary for spell checking than gedit

[Till Ulen]

Firefox and gedit use two different spell checking dictionaries to which the user can add words manually. The user has to add some new words twice, separately in each application.

Firefox and gedit should use a single user dictionary instead.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 16 04:20:52 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux chronos 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

This is due to the fact that they use different spell engines:
- gedit (and pidgin) use aspell
- firefox (and thunderbird and openoffice) use hunspell

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

the aspell user dictionaries are in ~ (user's home folder), named .aspell.<lang>.pws and .aspell.<lang>.prepl (the first is the personal/ignore dictionary and the second is the replacement dictionary)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed in intrepid, gedit uses enchant which uses hunspell now