1139550 - Firefox keeps resetting spellcheck language to Cuban Spanish

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[mrule7404]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150224134236

Steps to reproduce:

Use the default firefox installed with x86-64 ubuntu. Does not require any user reconfiguration to reproduce: behavior appears in default configuration.


Actual results:

Spellcheck language will always be set to cuban spanish


Expected results:

Spellcheck language should default to EN_US ( the system language ), and also should remember when I re-set the language to EN_US.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Please try with a Firefox build from Mozilla from https://www.mozilla.org/ (Ubuntu builds are different)  Try with a new profile: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 2

[mrule7404]

(In reply to [:Aleksej] from comment #1)
> Please try with a Firefox build from Mozilla from https://www.mozilla.org/
> (Ubuntu builds are different)  Try with a new profile:
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-
> firefox-profiles

The Firefox build from Mozilla does not display the issue -- so it is an Ubuntu bug? Do you have an intuition as to who is responsible for this bug? I imagine that Mozzila will says that Canonical has broken Firefox, and Canonical could say that this is a Firefox bug? Unclear how to proceed.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Please file a bug in Ubuntu.  The maintainer may know which Ubuntu-specific change is likely to cause this.

Comment 4

[Sarah Masud]

@ mrule7404
Can you please confirm whether you have a Cuban-Spanish dictionary installed or not. Also can you share the links of the pages where such auto corrections are taking place.

Comment 5

[mrule7404]

(In reply to Sarah Masud from comment #4)
> @ mrule7404
> Can you please confirm whether you have a Cuban-Spanish dictionary installed
> or not. Also can you share the links of the pages where such auto
> corrections are taking place.

Yes, there are a variety of dictionaries installed. I actually use some of the non-English dictionaries from time to time, so removing them is not a valid solution.

Any field or form to which firefox would normally apply spell-checking is subject to this bug. It is not a bug that is related to any particular website.

Best,
mrule.

Comment 6

[Sarah Masud]

@ mrule7404
It would be really helpful on your part if you can file your bug under Ubuntu as well. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/
Since, there have been similar issues on Ubuntu, where working with multiple language engines has resulted in picking up the wrong ones.
Examples:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1026869
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/955327
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1194236