323122 - Installed addon dictonaries are not visible as extension

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Lukas Ramach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5

I wanted to install an additonal dictionary for the in time spellchecking and a few problems occured to me:

It took me a few minutes to realize that i have to use the extension install to add the dictonary. From a users point of few i do not understand why i cannot install it directly in the options menu, especially since the link (very helpful) for addon dictonaries is placed there. 
I would at least have expcted a hint there how to install the dictonary.
Better: I install it directly from the options menu.

But in the end i managed to use the extension menu. So i installed it, everything said all ok there, but it didn't show up. I was really puzzled.

I found out in the options menu that they were there.

This is a highly inconsitent handling!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install a dictonary
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
It is installed but doesn't show up in the extension screen.

Expected Results:  
It is installed and shows up in the extension screen.

Comment 1

[François Gagné]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060506 BonEcho/2.0a1 ID:2006050604

I got the same problem with Firefox 1.8.1 branch, I installed the fr-FR extension dictionary http://downloads.mozdev.org/dictionaries/spell-fr-FR.xpi and it work put it's not shown in the Extension dialog.

Comment 2

[Robert Wall]

Confirming that after installing the en-GB dictionary it is missing from the extensions dialog as a bug in Thunderbird 1.5.0.4.  

I wonder if this is related to the installation location problem that is widely reported, for example in bug 216382?  

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

-> WFM: This is not a problem in nightly builds. Now dictionaries *are* extensions.