363812 - Spell check often doesn't offer a word that starts with the same letter as the incorrectly spelt word, leading to no appropriate correction

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 335813

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Paul Bagrie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Often I will spell a word incorrectly, knowing at least what the word starts with, however when I right click to correct the word there isn't even an option for a word starting with the same letter, never mind it being the right one or not.

Google usually gives me the right answer, even though it uses a corrections list of one word.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type, for example, "seperatly" (separately) into a text field.
2. Right click on this word, and there you have it.
3. Google will give you the right answer if you try and search this word, why can't firefox?

Actual Results:  
The spell checker failed to provide a solution to my spelling woes, so I tryed the old faithful google instead.

Expected Results:  
Spell check should have given me a version of the word I typed spelled correctly.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Sounds like a dupe of bug 335813.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 335813 ***