508340 - User-level "dictionaries" directory is not checked for files

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[spamgrinder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729

I have defined symbolic links to dictionary files in my profile directory:

 $ ll ~/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/dictionaries/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2  2048 08-04 19:27 ./
drwx------ 19 10240 08-04 21:10 ../
lrwxrwxrwx  1    34 08-04 19:27 en_US.aff -> /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_US.aff
lrwxrwxrwx  1    34 08-04 19:27 en_US.dic -> /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_US.dic
lrwxrwxrwx  1    34 08-04 19:21 pl-PL.aff -> /usr/share/myspell/dicts/pl_PL.aff
lrwxrwxrwx  1    34 08-04 19:21 pl-PL.dic -> /usr/share/myspell/dicts/pl_PL.dic

but I haven't access to Polish dictionary from right-click context menu. If I create link in system-wide firefox directory (e.g /usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries/) then directories are accessible for choice from menu.

In opposite to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dictionaries#Installing_by_using_an_extension, firefox even doesn't search "dictionaries" directly in profile directory, but does it in extension's subdirectories:

 $strace -f firefox 2>&1 | grep dictionaries
[pid  5584] access("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries", F_OK) = 0
[pid  5584] stat64("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
[pid  5584] open("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 62
[pid  5584] access("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries/en-US.aff", F_OK) = 0
[pid  5584] access("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries", F_OK) = 0
[pid  5584] stat64("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
[pid  5584] open("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 62
[pid  5584] access("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries/en-US.aff", F_OK) = 0
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/[e-mail]/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{d40f5e7b-d2cf-4856-b441-cc613eeffbe3}/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/[e-mail]/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/[e-mail]/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/[e-mail]/dictionarie ", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{ba7fbd23-a697-401e-bb13-7432eaf68747}/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{e0204bd5-9d31-402b-a99d-a6aa8ffebdca}/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{340c2bbc-ce74-4362-90b5-7c26312808ef}/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{340c2bbc-ce74-4362-90b5-7c26312808ef}/platform/Linux/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{340c2bbc-ce74-4362-90b5-7c26312808ef}/platform/Linux_x86-gcc3/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] access("/home/szambo/.mozilla/firefox/5fci9dad.default/extensions/{84b24861-62f6-364b-eba5-2e5e2061d7e6}/dictionaries", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5584] open("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries/en-US.aff", O_RDONLY) = 62
[pid  5584] open("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries/en-US.dic", O_RDONLY) = 62
[pid  5584] open("/usr/local/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries/en-US.aff", O_RDONLY) = 62

What happens wrong? This behaviour exists both in binary Firefox version or from source.

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Sorry for my poor English.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
Also, please consider using the most recent Firefox 4 beta build, your bug may be resolved there.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.