720206 - Language selection in the top and context menus is inconsistent

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[David Bourguignon]

Attachment: Zoom on top and context menus

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Build ID: 20111220165912

Steps to reproduce:

I wrote an email in English, selecting "Anglais (GB)" (meaning English (UK)" in the top menu.


Actual results:

My email sentences were underlined as wrong! (See "I wish you the best" at the top right for example.) The language selected in the context menu was "Français" (meaning "French") !


Expected results:

There shouldn't have been any inconsistencies between top and context menus! My email should have been proofread without any problem...

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to David Bourguignon from comment #0)
I don't have this problem here. I have the German and English dictionaries.
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1
Application Build ID: 20111222141531

Comment 2

[David Bourguignon]

Thanks Hashem. I don't know why I have so many issues with TB that others don't have! :-) In any case, as for Bug 716206, this language selection problem is very common: I encounter it everyday! I wish someone using the French-localized version of TB could check this too. Thanks again for your help.

Comment 3

[Vincent (caméléon)]

I just try to reproduce this bug without success. 
I use a French release of Thunderbird 11.0a2 and the "United States English Spellchecker" add-on on Win XP.

Maybe there are other extension that interact badly with Thunderbird? David, could you try again using a new profile?

Comment 4

[David Bourguignon]

Hi Caméléon! Thanks for your help.

I'm using the French release of TB v9.0.1 (latest official TB release, AFAIK). Here is the list of my currently installed extensions: AdBlock Plus, British English Dic, Compact Header, Extra Folder Column (those two were preinstalled), German Dic, Test Pilot (preinstalled), US English Dic. Nothing really fancy, I guess... :-)

Since I have never tried switching profiles (and I don't know how this will affect my current TB use), I would rather try to catch the bug on other installations... I will give you more info about all this asap!

Thanks again for your help.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

David - can you try disabling all the other add-ons besides the dictionaries ?

Comment 6

[David Bourguignon]

Hi Ludovic, sorry for taking so long to reply... I've deactivated all add-ons except the dictionaries, that is, Adblock Plus 2.0.3, CompactHeader 2.0.1, Extra Folder Columns 1.1.4, Test Pilot for Thunderbird 1.3.5. And unfortunately nothing changed... I checked: the bug is still there. Thanks for your help!

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

David does Firefox exhibits the same issue ?

Comment 8

[David Bourguignon]

Hi Ludovic, I can confirm that there are no such issues in Firefox since language selection is entirely local (by right-clicking to open the context menu when the mouse pointer is in a text area). The inconsistency in Thunderbird is between the language selection using a context menu in the mail composition text area and the language selection in the mail window menu. Hope it helps... Thanks in advance!

Comment 9

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

And you are using the default theme ?

Comment 10

[David Bourguignon]

Hi Ludovic, yes, I do confirm that I am using the default theme for both Thunderbird and Firefox (both being the latest released versions). Thanks in advance!

Comment 11

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Grmmmm I'm running out of ideas :(

Comment 12

[David Bourguignon]

Thanks Ludovic! I think we could close this bug report now... I haven't observed the phenomenon for a while (at least since the last two releases of Mozilla Thunderbird). Thanks again for your help!

Comment 13

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Le plaisir est pour moi :-)