[Bug 1026869] [NEW] Firefox accepts dictionaries and spell check entries from every which spell check backend, leaving problems with defaults and the language selector enables this behavior

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I've been searching for the solution to this bug for a long time.

Firefox's spell-check, despite my locale being en-US, sets itself to en-
GB, en-ZA or something en_US, which isn't even correct.

The problem, it seems, is that Firefox uses whatever spell-checking
backends you have installed - aspell, myspell, and hunspell. The result
is that Firefox chooses, en-GB as the default spell checker more-often
than not. So I uninstalled myspell, hunspell, and a package called
firefox-locale-en and now everything is correct - only one spell checker
is installed in Firefox.

The language selector, however, always prompts to reinstall these
backends whenever it is loaded.

This Firefox add-on can assist, it gives you a list of dictionaries
installed: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary-
switcher/

** Affects: firefox
     Importance: Medium
         Status: New

** Affects: hunspell
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: myspell
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: aspell firefox hunspell language-selector locale myspell
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Firefox accepts dictionaries and spell check entries from every which spell check backend, leaving problems with defaults and the language selector enables this behavior
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1026869
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