922637 - In-line spelling checker unreliable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 917027

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Paul Crawford]

Attachment: Example of incorrect behaviour.

User Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16

Steps to reproduce:

Composing an email, or replying to an email, the in-line spelling checker often is not working on the body of the email. However, choosing to spell check the message is working, so the message language and dictionary are basically OK.

Both home and work machines are basically the same, running Ubuntu 12.04 and Thunderbird 24.0, but they behave slightly differently. The home machine will spell-check the body correctly as long as I don't quote some emails, while work PC won't work correctly most of the time. This appeared with the last update (I think) from 23.0.

Attempting to set the message language makes no difference, the in-line spell check is still (apparently) disabled..


Actual results:

A miss-spelt subject is correctly underlined, but the errors in the body text are not.


Expected results:

Errors in body text should be underlined.