250492 - Spell checker ignore first letter of word

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261930

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Max Waterman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.9.1

The spell checker has ignored the first letter of a word, signaling an spelling
mistake on a valid word, 'Safari'.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
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will attach a screen shot asap

Comment 1

[Max Waterman]

Attachment: screen shot of incorrect behaviour

Note the word 'Safari' in the body of the email.
Note that spell checker has ignored the first letter 'S' and highlighted
'afari' as incorrectly spelled.

Comment 2

[Max Waterman]

Attachment: another example

Note the spell checker is ignoring the 'u' of 'unreadable' and indicating
'nreadable' as incorrectly spelled.

Comment 3

[Matthew Wilson]

Sounds as though it may be similar to bug 261930?

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261930 ***