564835 - The Languages submenu in the context menu of textareas and friends is sorted at random

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mariano Suárez-Alvarez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.5.9-2.fc12 Firefox/3.5.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.5.9-2.fc12 Firefox/3.5.9

If spell checking is enabled, say, in a textarea, the submenu that pops up when one right clicks on the textarea, and picks Languages, appears to be sorted at random. 

For example, on this box, with a complete Fedora 12 install, it lists two screenfuls of languages in no discernible order...

At the very least having the variants sorted according to the language and, secondarily, the name of the variant, would be *immensely* useful.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click on a textarea element
2. Enable spell checking in its context menu
3. Look at the list of languages offered in the context menu
Actual Results:  
A sensibly sorted list of languages appears

Expected Results:  
One has to scan the complete list in order to find what one needs.

IMO one should be able to disable extensions installed system-wide on a per-user basis. While there may be some security concern or what not that I am missing for the general case, I hope no such consideration applies to language packs!

Comment 1

[Christophe GRENIER]

I confirm, it's hard to select a language in the language list to use the spellchecker.

It looks like "Actual Results" and "Expected Results" have been inverted in the original report.

Actual Results:  
List of languages is no discernible order

Expected Results:
A sorted list of languages would be welcome.

Comment 2

[Henri de Solages]

I confirm this bug for Firefox 4.0.1. It may be regarded as a duplicate of bug #Bug 631516 , with a more interesting discussion.