628932 - Some dictionaries are not properly installed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Dictionaries, defect)

Description

[Karol]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b10) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b10) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b10

Spell checking is only possible for the default language (en-gb in my case).  After successfully adding (no errors in the error console) a new dictionary (for example Swedish in my case), the dictionary is in the list of installed add-ons but right-clicking in a text-box to select the new language only shows the default language (en-gb in my case) available.  I have also installed the Dictionary Switcher add-on and it also shows only the default language available.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox 4b8, 4b9, or 4b10
2. Install new dictionary
3. Try to select the new dictionary for spell-checking

Comment 1

[Bebe]

CONFIRMED  with Romanian, Spanish, Swedish dictionary on build:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110209 Firefox/4.0b12pre


But it works with Italian, Dutch

Comment 2

[Teodosia Pop]

Confirmed using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110209 Firefox/4.0b12pre with Romanian with Swedish dictionaries.

Comment 3

[Jesper Kristensen]

Some time ago I noticed several dictionary addons on AMO, which were listed as compatible with Firefox 4 Beta, but which were actually incompatible (they missed em:unpack).

Comment 4

[Jesper Kristensen]

Right now, out of the dictionaries listed on AMO, 71 declares compatibility with the latest Firefox 4 nightly, 46 of those unpacks as they should, and 25 does not, and should thus not be marked compatible. These are:

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I think the AMO editors should mark these as incompatible with Firefox 4 and email their authors about this problem.

Comment 5

[eyal gruss]

hebrew not working

Comment 6

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Why do you want this to block our final release? Don't just flip the flag without explaining, please.

Comment 7

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Maybe this will fall off the list, but seems like easy work for AMO!

Comment 8

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Sounds like the fix is to downgrade maxversion compatibility for the guids above and email the authors asking them to set unpack = true before setting it back.

Jorge, can you take this? Might be easiest to write some SQL.

Comment 9

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Whoo, I got a hardblocker!

I've changed the compatibility of all listed dictionaries and sent a message to the authors so they know how to update.

-> FIXED.

Comment 10

[dickvl]

Maybe a rescan needs to be done to be sure that all dictionaries have unpack = true

The Serbian Dictionary still has a missing <em:unpack>true</em:unpack> and doesn't install properly (not in the Languages sub menu).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/%D1%81%D1%80%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA-serbian-dictiona/