344201 - Dictionary doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 343076

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[thbley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060707 Firefox/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060707 Firefox/2.0b1

I installed dictionaries from http://www.mozilla.com/products/thunderbird/dictionaries.html

They got installed into: firefox\components\myspell
instead of: firefox\dictionaries

The dictionaries are not recognized after installing them. When I move the files from firefox\components\myspell to firefox\dictionaries, everything works as expected.

I downloaded the .zip of Firefox 2.0 beta 1 for windows, not the installer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.mozilla.com/products/thunderbird/dictionaries.html
2. download: German (Germany)
3. go to a page with a textarea and type some German text
4. right click the textarea, the "German" is not in the list of dictionaries

Actual Results:  
Dictionaries got installed into: firefox\components\myspell


Expected Results:  
Dictionaries should go to: firefox\dictionaries

Moving files manually to the correct location makes it work.

Comment 1

[dex_sf]

I can confirm that, I've got exactly the same behavior on the Mac:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060710 Firefox/2.0b1 ID:2006071020

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

All the dictionaries at that page are links to dictionaries.mozdev.org so there could be a bug opened in the MozDev bugzilla (I didn't find one). 

There are also plans to provide dictionaries at addons.m.o - bug 343076 - and packaged as extensions so that uninstall is easier.

Comment 3

[Jackie Liu]

I think you installed Thunderbird dictionaries into Firefox (notice http://www.mozilla.com/products/thunderbird/dictionaries.html) and that's why it's not working.  This bug should be closed as INVALID, but I don't have the proper privileges to do that.

Comment 4

[dex_sf]

@ Jackie (#3):

the intention WAS to install Thunderbird dictionaries in Firefox, like it's mentioned in the notification you get after right-clicking e.g. in the Additional Comments textbox above, selecting Languages -> Add dictionaries. So, I think this bug is surely not invalid. 

Comment 5

[Jackie Liu]

Sorry, my bad.  Firefox does direct you to download dictionaries from the Thunderbird page because they will also work.  And they do after copying them to the bonecho\dictionaries.  Consider this confirmed, but I don't have the proper permissions yet (soon to be getting them, hopefully...I've emailed Gerv).  

Comment 6

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The problem here is with the dictionaries not being packaged correctly and will be taken care of in bug 343076.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 343076 ***