374233 - Spell check does not work after upgrade to TB 2.0 beta

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Gillick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: version 2 beta 2 (20070116)

The spell check feature in Thunderbird 2b2 on Mac OSX doesn't not work.  

* I've downloaded and installed the English language pack from https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/dictionaries/?lang=en-US.  

* In the preferences under Composition > Spelling, both spell check options are checked.

* When misspelling words (for example: "adfasdfs"), I do not get the inline spell check underline.

* When clicking Options > Check Spelling the dialog says there are no misspelled words.


I've just downloaded a new version of TB2b2, put it in another directory and run it on a fresh profile and experienced the same problem.  The nightly 3a1 build works as expected -- but this is for version 3.0, right?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Verify spell checking is turned on in preferences under Composition > Spelling
2. Compose email with misspelled words
3. Notice no underlines and spell check dialog does not find any misspellings.

Comment 1

[Ray Kiddy]

I have an intel mac running 10.4.8 and am not seeing this.

Are you seeing any messages in the console? Any other symptoms?

Comment 2

[Jeremy Gillick]

I don't see any errors in the Error Console for inline misspellings, however, I get this error that I get when I open the Check Spelling dialog:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIEditorSpellCheck.GetNextMisspelledWord]"  nsresult: "0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://editor/content/EdSpellCheck.js :: NextWord :: line 298"  data: no]

Comment 3

[Jeremy Gillick]

Any thoughts on what I might do to resolve this?  Could it be a bad install?

Comment 4

[Ray Kiddy]

Can you try a clean install without the extra dictionary and see if you have the problem? I am not sure what else to suggest.

Comment 5

[Jeremy Gillick]

OK, I removed:

 * /Applications/Thunderbird.app
 * ~/Library/Thunderbird/


Downloaded the en-US Thunderbird 2.0b2 from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/all-beta.html

It seems to be working now.  When I tried to port over the prefs.js it broke again, so I'll diff the files to try to find the problem.

Comment 6

[Ray Kiddy]

While you are checking that. Why did you feel the need to install a en-us langauge pack? If you got the default en-us TB, then you should not have needed this. Did you start with a TB that had been localized for some other language and then needed to install English?

Comment 7

[Jeremy Gillick]

I originally was using TB 1.5 for en-us, then upgraded to the 2.0 beta.  When the spell checking stopped working, I decided to install the language pack in hopes of fixing the problem.

I suspect it's something in the prefs.js.  When I created a new profile, and tried to reuse the old prefs.js -- the same problem occurred.  With a fresh prefs.js everything works fine.

Comment 8

[Ray Kiddy]

Can you attach the old and new prefs.js files?

Comment 9

[Jeremy Gillick]

I found the problem.  For some reason the "spellchecker.dictionary" pref was set to "en" instead of "en-US". I'm not sure how this got changed, but somehow this occurred after installing the TB 2.0 beta 2.

I also had the Lightening extension installed -- if that's any help.

Comment 10

[Ray Kiddy]

I cannot cause the problem by setting the preference. Can you upload your two prefs.js files?

Comment 11

[Jeremy Gillick]

Attachment: Old prefs.js

The old pref.js file

Comment 12

[Jeremy Gillick]

Attachment: New prefs.js

The old prefs.js file

Comment 13

[Jeremy Gillick]

OK, they're attached.  This is for my corporate mail, so I've had to 'xxx' out the server paths, etc; sorry.

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

also doesn't fail for me if pref set to "en", version 3.0a1pre (2007110302) and 2.0.0.7pre

dupe of bug 366255?

Comment 15

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does this still occur in the latest supported stable 2.0.0.x?

(it is known that spell check is borky / broken on the trunk)

Comment 16

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to last comment. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.