1633194 - Spelling dictionaries not seen in Spelling Menu

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[romko.b.m]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.1

Steps to reproduce:

Install a dictionary (e.g. French or Polish or British English).

Actual results:

The installation ran good. SeaMonkey reports ‘Installed successfully’
Add-ons Manager says the dictionary is installed.
Neither component (Browser, Composer, Mail) Spell Menu sees either but US English language

Expected results:

Spelling checker should propose that bunch of dictionaries.

Comment 1

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Make sure you pick the latest non webext dictionary as stated in the release notes. Support for this is being worked on but probably not before 2.53.4

Comment 2

[romko.b.m]

Attachment: DictionarySpanish.png

I was led by Add-ons Manager to
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/extensions/language-support-and-translation/. All these extensions have file type .xpi
Could you please explain what you mean by non webext dictionaries and wherefrom get them?

Comment 3

[romko.b.m]

Attachment: DictionarySpanish_02.png

I believe this one is «the latest»

Comment 4

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Attachment: install.rdf

1.18.12 is the latest working for now. You can try to modifiy 1.20.1. Download the install.rdf from here and save the xpi as zip. Copy the install.rdf into the zip and rename to xpi. Then try to install it (file open or drop it over the browser content area. Not tested but might work.
Make sure to disable automatic add-on updates.

Comment 5

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I recommend to install add-On AMO Browsing for SeaMonkey from here. It will add an extended Version history view with information concerning kind of Add-on type. Versions with hint "WebExtensions" on red background will not work.

I will file a RFE that this hint will be added to Release Notes. I wonder whether this extension should not be bundled with SM Releases - it's essential for appropriate UX.

Comment 6

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Attachment: Screenshot of dictionary versions with AMO-Browsing-Addon

Screenshot shows that AMO-Browsing detects all Mexican Spanish dicts. from that author as "WebExtensions".

Comment 7

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Currently invalid, WebExtensions add-ons can not work with SeaMonkey

Comment 8

[romko.b.m]

(In reply to Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg) from comment #4)

Created attachment 9144835 [details]
install.rdf

1.18.12 is the latest working for now. You can try to modifiy 1.20.1. Download the install.rdf from here and save the xpi as zip. Copy the install.rdf into the zip and rename to xpi. Then try to install it (file open or drop it over the browser content area. Not tested but might work.
Make sure to disable automatic add-on updates.

Thank you very much. I made same trick with French, Polish, British English, Ukrainian, Czech, and Russian that I used to profit by with SeaMonkey 2.49. French, Polish and Ukrainian survived, others really did function but next SeaMonkey restart. Strange enough.
Now going to install SM 2.53.2 and apply your recent recommendations. Wonder, what's going to occur.