Firefox 3 British English dictionary missing words

dninja · 2008-07-30 16:22:01

Has anyone else noticed that the British English dictionary is missing words? Words such as existing and checking aren't found but exist and check both do so it appears it has the base words but not the variations.

I thought at first it was just the odd word but the more I type the more red underlines I get on words that I know are correct.

I have the latest version (1.19) and no other dictionaries installed.

azleifel · 2008-07-30 19:15:16

Aha, that's what I was missing since the update to version 3 -> Just installed the British English dictionary add-on version 1.19 and works for me without any tweaking, recognising base words, variations and even antidisestablishmentarianism.

Sp4rkR4t · 2008-07-30 19:16:18

I've noticed this as well, very annying.

dninja · 2008-07-30 21:12:35

azleifel wrote:

Aha, that's what I was missing since the update to version 3 -> Just installed the British English dictionary add-on version 1.19 and works for me without any tweaking, recognising base words, variations and even antidisestablishmentarianism.

Can you try spell checking existing, checking and testing. All are picked up as bad for me.

Do you have any other dictionaries installed?

dninja · 2008-07-31 00:37:55

Does open office share the same dictionary as firefox either on disk or at the source where the packages are created?

It seems to be suffering from the same missing words problem as firefox

Sp4rkR4t · 2008-07-31 02:50:38

Openoffice uses it's own dictionary.....

JGC · 2008-07-31 07:18:43

OpenOffice.org and Firefox3 both use hunspell (myspell) dictionaries. At this moment there's no central installation of these things, so each of them will have its own dictionaries installed. I'm planning to add myspell-dictionary-* packages that install in a common location in /usr/share and run a hook for openoffice and/or firefox to register it there when installed.

Zeist · 2008-07-31 08:58:05

dninja wrote:

azleifel wrote:
Aha, that's what I was missing since the update to version 3 -> Just installed the British English dictionary add-on version 1.19 and works for me without any tweaking, recognising base words, variations and even antidisestablishmentarianism.
Can you try spell checking existing, checking and testing. All are picked up as bad for me.
Do you have any other dictionaries installed?

Those words all work fine for me, but for some reason some re- words aren't recognized.

dninja · 2008-07-31 09:29:43

JGC wrote:

OpenOffice.org and Firefox3 both use hunspell (myspell) dictionaries. At this moment there's no central installation of these things, so each of them will have its own dictionaries installed. I'm planning to add myspell-dictionary-* packages that install in a common location in /usr/share and run a hook for openoffice and/or firefox to register it there when installed.

That is what I was thinking, so the hunspell dictionary is the one to blame then. When you make this change, would it also allow the user added words to be shared as well. That would be a really nice feature.

Those words all work fine for me, but for some reason some re- words aren't recognized.

reuse and retain are both ok but reestablish isn't.

Does anyone have a work around for this or do we just have to wait till hunspell sorts it dictionary out? The annoying thing is that it used to be ok so they must have the data somewhere

azleifel · 2008-07-31 19:02:50

dninja wrote:

azleifel wrote:
Aha, that's what I was missing since the update to version 3 -> Just installed the British English dictionary add-on version 1.19 and works for me without any tweaking, recognising base words, variations and even antidisestablishmentarianism.
Can you try spell checking existing, checking and testing. All are picked up as bad for me.
Do you have any other dictionaries installed?

I only have the British English dictionary installed in Firefox and I have the preferred language set to English/United Kingdom [en-gb].

dninja · 2008-07-31 20:04:03

azleifel wrote:

dninja wrote:
azleifel wrote:
Aha, that's what I was missing since the update to version 3 -> Just installed the British English dictionary add-on version 1.19 and works for me without any tweaking, recognising base words, variations and even antidisestablishmentarianism.
Can you try spell checking existing, checking and testing. All are picked up as bad for me.
Do you have any other dictionaries installed?
I only have the British English dictionary installed in Firefox and I have the preferred language set to English/United Kingdom [en-gb].

Same as me, what version of firefox are you running? I'm on

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071819 GranParadiso/3.0.1

azleifel · 2008-07-31 20:15:02

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072610 Firefox/3.0.1

EDIT: Mine's called Firefox and not GranParadiso because I changed the general.useragent.extra.firefox key.

Last edited by azleifel (2008-07-31 20:18:58)

dninja · 2008-07-31 21:03:04

I'm doing an upgrade now, I'll report back if that fixes it

dninja · 2008-07-31 22:15:09

That seems to have fixed a lot of words I know that it was missing, I'll keep my eye on it to see what happens.

I wonder what did happen, someone slip a cut down version of the dictionary in by accident?

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