360960 - Location of personal dictionary should be customisable.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Clements]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Currently the user dictionary seems to be hard-coded to persdict.dat in your user profile folder.  It should be possible to move this to another location by setting a value in about:config (just as you can move your bookmark file).

My own personal use-case is three fold:
1) To include the dictionary in my backup without having to specify individual file location.
2) To include dictionary in my briefcase folder that is synchronised with my laptop.
3) To use the same file for MS office and Firefox.

I'm sure other people have other situations where this would be useful, e.g. to carry around on a memory stick, etc.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 2

[Mark Clements]

This bug was marked as a duplicate of bug 226699, but that has now been resolved as WONTFIX for reasons orthogonal to this request.

The original merging of the two bugs made sense as it made sense to tackle them together, but it has meant that this bug has effectively been WONTFIXED for inappropriate reasons. Specifically, the original bug was about sharing the dictionary between Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. and was closed because the development of those platforms mean a shared dictionary is not considered desirable. However, that is not a reason to reject the request to make the dictionary path customisable.

This bug should be reopened (I don't seem to have the ability to do that) so that it can be considered in its own right. Even if the eventual resolution is WONTFIX this is something that should be justified and documented in its own right.

Comment 3

[Mark Clements]

Actually, it seems like I can reopen it. Functionality was just hidden away behind an 'edit' button now.