1414062 - Spell checker not working on Nightly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect, P3)

Description

[u590400]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171102100041

Steps to reproduce:

Go to a site with a text box such as reddit comments.
Type an incorrect work eg tevt


Actual results:

Doesn't get underlined in red and no options appear for the correct spelling.


Expected results:

It should be underlined in red and if you right click suggests should appear.
This is working correctly in Firefox Developer Edition and yes it is enabled in settings.

Comment 1

[alex_mayorga]

¡Hola Maxime!

I also have this in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0 ID:20171102100041 so confirming.

Two misspellings in both English and Spanish that are not underlined below:

tevt
preuba

¡Gracias!
Alex

Comment 2

[fitzhaj]

Experiencing this issue too: most (all?) dictionaries from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/ cannot be installed in Nightly 58. Setting extensions.legacy.enabled to true does not resolve this.

en-US does show red underline with incorrect spelling, but only American English spellings.
en-GB for example does not show any red underline for misspelt words.

Comment 3

[fitzhaj]

This affects all platforms I believe, Windows/Mac/Linux.

This is a duplicate ticket to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1414062 -- Perhaps this two bugs need to be merged.

I believe https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/ will need to be updated to reflect the new changes when v58 is pushed as a stable public release.

Comment 4

[u590400]

Hello, it seems you have linked this ticket in your duplicate ticket.

Comment 5

[Bruno Pagani]

Works perfectly fines for me (in both French and English (GB or US)). But I use system hunspell dictionaries for that, not Firefox modules.

Comment 6

[fitzhaj]

(In reply to Maxime Willer [:TheSilentLink] from comment #4)
> Hello, it seems you have linked this ticket in your duplicate ticket.

Apologies, it should be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1326038

If you want functioning spellcheck in Nightly you can try this dictionary for British English (taken from above ticket): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary-2/

Comment 7

[u590400]

Thanks that works perfectly. However is there a reason why it doesn't work out of the box without having to install a dictionary?

Comment 8

[alex_mayorga]

¡Hola Maxime!

FWIW I ended up re-installing the en-GB and es-MX dictionaries and these now seem to be working as of Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0 ID:20171117100127

Could you please give re-installing the dictionaries a try and confirm if this is in fact fixed for you as well?

¡Gracias!
Alex

Comment 9

[Jet Villegas (inactive)]

(In reply to Maxime Willer [:TheSilentLink] from comment #7)
> Thanks that works perfectly. However is there a reason why it doesn't work
> out of the box without having to install a dictionary?

This works for me "out of the box" on my Nightly build. Can you confirm that a fresh install of Firefox doesn't include the English spellcheck dictionaries for you?

Comment 10

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

(In reply to Jet Villegas (inactive) from comment #9)

This works for me "out of the box" on my Nightly build. Can you confirm that
a fresh install of Firefox doesn't include the English spellcheck
dictionaries for you?

Same here. If some of you still have issues, please feel free to re-open. Thanks for your support!