964627 - Can't disable "check spelling as you type"

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Geoff Kuenning]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

Type anywhere -- text box, URL, you name it.  Text will be underlined as you type, regardless of the setting of the "check spelling as you type" option.


Actual results:

The annoying spell checker is activated.  Far worse, hitting the tab key to go to the next form field doesn't do so; instead it replaces the last-typed word with a random selection from the supposed list of corrections.  Nothing like typing my own e-mail address and having "edu" corrected to "du".


Expected results:

What's disabled ought to be DISABLED!

(And yes, I tried toggling the setting, and I looked under "spell" in about:config.)

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Sounds like you have some other program doing it to all fields.  Does it happen in other GTK programs?

Comment 2

[Geoff Kuenning]

Got me.  Can you suggest a GTK program to test?

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

I can't.

Anyway, Firefox does not check spelling in the URL bar or search field by default… Have you tried with a new profile or in safe mode?  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

GTK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B is used by GNOME, I think at least programs for GNOME 2 are based on a version of GTK similar to what Firefox uses.

Comment 4

[u554753]

Hi Geoff,

Are you still having this issue in newer versions of Firefox?

Comment 5

[u554753]

Closing due to lack of response from the reporter. If this is still a pertinent issue, please reply with the information required. Thanks!