Firefox not checking spilling

Jaffa.

Jaffa. wrote: »

I also found the spell checker (English - British) does not seem to work well with the newer versions of Firefox - try checking for updates for add-ons as this seems to temporally fix the problem.

That's the only way I can think of getting it working, must be a bug or something

spud17

fwor wrote: »

Does anyone know how to get the British English dictionary FF extension working? I've got FF 3.0.10 with the British English v1.19 (latest, shows no "not compatible with your version of Firefox" errors), the language set to en-GB and spell checking turned on.

It still tells me that color is right and colour is wrong!

What else do I need to do?

No much help to you but, I've recently reinstalled everything and have FF3.0.10 and British English dictionary v1.19 working together.
So they can work, at least on XP Home, are you on Vista?
On mine color in your quote is underlined red BTW.

fwor

Thanks, but already tried the "check for updates". 1.19 is the latest.

Not Vista, it's running under Linux, which I think may be a factor, plus the fact that I've installed the Swiftfox optimised version of FF.

I guess it's no big deal having correctly spelled words underlined in red...

spud17

Forgot you were Linux, I'll probably be trying the latest Ubuntu over the weekend so will take particular note of Firefox and spellcheck.

fwor

Good idea - I've got a spare PC that I did a fresh install of Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.04 on last week, so just checked that out.

Exactly the same result - it doesn't work. Then I tried another PC with XP and FF2. Upgraded to FF3.0.10 and the British Dict works fine, so it seems to be a linux thing.

Incidentally, Jaunty didn't appear to be that well tested when I tried it just after the first full release, with Tracker crashing repeatedly. If you're just doing a test install that's not an issue, but I would hold off any dist-upgrades on machines you care about for a while...