1626110 - Thunderbird "subject field" check spelling list of dictionary languages has duplication

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Antonio]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Right click on the "subject field (line) text", while composing or editing an e-mail, and choose "Languages".

Actual results:

Upon trying to check spelling the "subject field (line) text" of any e-mail, the list of dictionary languages available appears duplicated, sometimes triplicated, etc.

Expected results:

The list of dictionary languages available should be one only.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Do you have more than one dictionary for the relevant language installed?

Comment 2

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

I have the default English (US), installed the English (United Kingdom) and German (Germany) dictionaries.

When I compose a message and misspell a word in the subject line I see them listed twice under Languages. If I close the context menu and open it again they appear three times, four times if I repeat the process and they keep on growing. The selected language always appears in the bottom three listed.

It is working properly in the message body.

Sorry, the menu keeps closing and I can't take a screen shot.

Comment 3

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

Definitely a regression as I see it in version 68.0 with a test profile on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.

Edit: Whatever caused it appears fixed in 75.0b3 and 76.0a1. I can't reproduce the problem there.

Comment 4

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

Attachment: Screencast from 04-05-2020 09:05:14 PM.webm

Made a video of the problem.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity has not been changed from the default since it was filed, and it's Priority is -- (Backlog,) indicating it has has not been previously triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to -- (default, untriaged.)

Comment 6

[Antonio]

Thanks to all for the precious comments! In summary, what is the current solution to circumvent this bug?

Is it wise to download versions 75/76 Beta? If this is a valid option, could someone provide a link for me to download?

With very best wishes,

A.

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Closing per comment 3.

You can get a beta from https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/#channel - back up your profile in case you want to go back

Comment 8

[Antonio]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #7)

Closing per comment 3.

You can get a beta from https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/#channel - back up your profile in case you want to go back

Thank you! It worked out! A.