Open Bug 1761416 Opened 4 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Enabling/Disabling check spelling return to its initial form after reloading the page

Categories

(Core :: Spelling checker, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Spelling checker
Version:
Firefox 100
Platform:
Desktop
All
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox98 --- affected
firefox99 --- affected
firefox100 --- affected

People

(Reporter: hyacoub, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Affected versions

Firefox 100.0a1
Firefox 99.0b8
Firefox 98.0.2

Affected platforms

Windows 10 x64
macOS 11.6
Ubuntu 20.04 x64

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open Firefox
  2. Go to reddit.com/facebook.com
  3. Right click on "Search Reddit"/"Search Facebook" fields
  4. Enable check spelling
  5. Reload the page

Expected result

Check spelling should remain enabled after reloading the page.

Actual Result

Check spelling is disabled after reloading the page.

Note

The same issue is reproducing where check spelling is enabled by default.

Severity: -- → S4
Severity: S4 → S3

This was also the behaviour in Firefox 99. Looking at the code, I haven't been able to find any indication that we're attempting to persist this state across page reloads. It is persisted in Chrome, so it would be nice to have. I'm going to mark this as an enhancement.

No longer blocks: 1402822
Severity: S3 → S4
Type: defect → enhancement
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