727723 - Unable to change default dictionary: United States English always returns as default and cannot be removed.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[ozoneocean]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Firefox/10.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.7.1
Build ID: 20120208224119

Steps to reproduce:

I have downloaded the Australian English and United Kingdom English dictionaries and installed them as alternatives to the installed dictionary (United Sates English).


Actual results:

Even though I select these alternative dictionaries in the context menu, depending on which site I visit it generally reverts back (randomly it seems) to Untied States English. It is extremely frustrating to have to keep on changing this.


Expected results:

The selected dictionary should become the new default and remain that way universally (on all sites), till it is changed by the user in the context menu.
Alternatively the United States English dictionary should be able to be disabled in the plug-ins menu as, exactly like you could do on all previous recent versions of SeaMonkey.

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

Does this happen in SeaMonkey safe-mode? Go: Help->Restart with Addons Disabled.

Comment 2

[ozoneocean]

In safe mode the United States English dictionary is the only choice, all other installed dictionaries are disabled because they're addons, so this problem cannot be tested that way unfortunately.
I just tried it.

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

Can you check the Preferences window to see what dictionary SeaMonkey thinks is the default spell checker? I think it's either under:
Edit->preferences->Mail&NewsGroups->Composition->Spelling
or
Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Spelling
Depending on the version of SeaMonkey.

Comment 4

[ozoneocean]

Hi
In this:
Edit->preferences->Mail&NewsGroups->Composition->Spelling
The default says English UK.

And that works fine for my Mail application. The UK English IS the actual default there.

But this path is invalid on my instillation:
Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Spelling
Under "appearance" there are only "Content", "Fonts", and "Colours"

There is "languages" under "browser", which lists the two installed dictionaries (English UK and Australian English), but not the installed default, US English.

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

OK. Go to Tools->Addon Manager. Disable all extensions and plugins. Restart SeaMonkey. See if this improves things.

Comment 6

[ozoneocean]

I'm afraid that did not make any difference.
On some sites UK English is the default, on others it always reverts back to United States English.

Gizmodo.com and YahooMail  and examples of sites where it reverts to US English.
I tried this on a totally different computer that had this same version of Seamonkey running and it had exactly  the same problem with the dictionaries- switching between US and UK dictionaries as the defaults depending on which site it was on.

On older versions of Seamonkey the US English Dictionary was listed as an add-on and could be disabled from there, just like any other installed dictionary, but this is not the case anylonger and se we have silly errors like this one.

Comment 7

[Rainer Bielefeld]

@reporter: Still a problem for you?

Comment 8

[ozoneocean]

Yes, in this version of Seamonkey (in 2015 vs 2012 haha), this seems to be fixed now :)

Comment 9

[Rainer Bielefeld]

@ozoneocean:
With what SM Version did you test?

Comment 10

[ozoneocean]

I'm using SeaMonkey 2.33.1 now.

That issue I had was with the version of Seamonkey I was using in 2012, I'm not sure which version but the useragent info was: 
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Firefox/10.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.7.1 Build ID: 20120208224119"