1164149 - Spellcheck won't set default language

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[lukas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150420225811

Steps to reproduce:

I entered text into a text field.


Actual results:

When I enter text into a text field, Firefox always assumes that the language is en-US. If i set it to de-DE, it will be reset for all other text fields. There also is no option to set the default language in the preferences and changing spellchecker.dictionary in the about:config won't do anything.


Expected results:

There should be an option to change the default spellchecking language (maybe in the content tab) which actually does that.

Comment 1

[lukas]

Sorry, I missed a detail: it seems to save the default language by page (e.g. for facebook only) but I would still recommend implementing an option to set the default language or use the language which was set then for all websites because that is what a normal user would expect I think.

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Spellchecking was reworked in bug 1200533, bug 717433, bug 697981, bug 1205983, bug 1204147 and bug 1193293.

See meta-bug 1073827 comment #33 for details. The safest way to remove the content preference is to remove/rename the content-prefs.sqlite from the profile or test with a new profile.

The problem reported here is fixed in Firefox 43, some of the bugs mentioned here landed on Firefox 44.