1486746 - Dictionary may silently fail to register valid words

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephan Sokolow]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0
Build ID: 20180823143155

Steps to reproduce:

I don't know how to reliably reproduce this, since it was triggered by a power outage.


Actual results:

Every word was listed as misspelled when the "English (Canada)" language from the non-default "Canadian English Dictionary 3.0.6" was selected.

Changing to "English (United States)" (the installed-by-default dictionary) and back didn't fix the problem but disabling and re-enabling the dictionary in about:addons did fix the problem.


Expected results:

It shouldn't be possible for a dictionary to start up and be selected normally, but for it to fail to initialize in some way which apparently leaves the word list empty.