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badwolf

Firefox English Spellcheck Broken; Ignores language settings

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Hi all, I've recently switched back to FF after using Chrome for years but spellcheck seems to be broken.

I have removed en-us from my languages and added en-ca and en-gb, but it still checks all spelling as en-us. How can I fix it so it checks spelling with specified English?

I'm on macOS latest and FF latest. Also, my system languages are set to en-ca (primary), en-gb, fr-ca, zh-cn -- so at NO point should FF ever be offering American spelling corrections.

How can I fix this? Why doesn't FF respect the system language settings?

Posted Oct 3, 2017, 11:45 PM UTC

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kbrosnanNightly | DevEd > Android | Win | Linux•

Firefox is a language specific binary. You need to download the en-GB build to get en-GB spelling. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

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badwolfOP•

Wow, that's bad. Why doesn't the website offer you the language you speak when you download FF? And there is no en-CA? That alone will make me look for alternatives. It is utterly insulting and a fine example of neo-colonialism to give Canadians en-US; it should default to en-GB at least as it's closer. I really really wanted FF to work out, it's goals and everything are praise-worthy, but ignoring the system and user's language is a terrible experience. I came back to FF because of the new container feature -- I have to run at least 3 profiles in Chrome. The new container feature is not as good as Chrome "people" but it a great step in the right direction (just really wish you could set one container per window).

Sorry I'm negative here. I really appreciate your answer. I'm just disappointed. I really want to de-Google my life for obvious reasons; but my browser is a key part of my workflow and there just doesn't seem to be an alternative to Chrome. Hopefully one day Mozilla can turn it around. Please keep up the good work.

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kbrosnanNightly | DevEd > Android | Win | Linux•

It should provide Firefox for your locale. I don't know why it did not for you. en-CA is not a locale because there is not a community that wants to work on it. https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Starting_a_localization and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551156

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