417628 - The auto spell checker sometimes gives completely unrelated suggestions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 413950

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Isaac]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

I know this I'm not reporting this to the right department, but this is the closest I saw listed for spell-checker bugs.

Anyways, This has been a problem of mine for a while where the spell checker will give weird and very dissimilar suggestions when right-clicking on a red-underlined (misspelled) word in a form. However, this is the first time I've seen it this bad.

The word was "abillity" and it suggests "referencing" and "ability" in that order. (In fact, it's doing it right now in this form :P)

I have a screen shot in case you cannot reproduce it right away.

thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type "abillity" in a web form
2. right click on the misspelled word
Actual Results:  
The right-click menu suggests "referencing" and "ability" in that order.

Expected Results:  
I dunno, something like "ability" as the only result, and maybe other words which have similar structures...? :)

I don't see a way to attach files, so I will host the image on my webspace at: http://memotype.net/stuff/mozilla-spell-check-bug.png

Thanks

Comment 1

[Mike Lierman]

Marking as duplicate of the bug# 413950 which I filled a few weeks ago. In summary, try Firefox 3 Beta 3 or the latest Nightly and you will see a big difference!

-Mike

Comment 2

[Mike Lierman]

Fixed by the landing of Hunspell (bug# 319778). Please mark with a Verified status. For more info see bug number 413950.

-Mike

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3 ID:2008020514