Bug#658882: iceweasel: Check spelling state not persistent

Tim Day timday at bottlenose.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 6 14:50:29 UTC 2012


Package: iceweasel
Version: 10.0-1~bpo60+1
Severity: normal


NB I'm running the Debian Mozilla team's release.
I was on such a bpo release before bpo60, but I noticed the
bpo60 upgrade a few days ago and that's when this problem
started.

As I remember previous versions, you'd enable spell checking
by selecting "Check my spelling as I type" on
Preferences->Advanced->General,
and that would enable "Check spelling" on any text
entry fields on webpages.

Since the latest upgrade, the "Check Spelling" option
(found by right clicking on a text entry field on a page)
is never checked.  It can be switched on in the right-click
menu and will then work (and the language used last _is_
remembered) but it'll be necessary to enable it again in
every text field on the same page, in any new tabs,
and after firefox is shut down and started again.

Once enabled in a field, spell checking does work fine, and
it's clearly seeing all the same dictionaries it used to.

Yes the preferences option is checked! I tried clearing it
and setting again; makes no difference.  I've tried moving
my ~/.mozilla/firefox aside but a clean slate makes no difference.
Running in safe mode makes no difference.

A workround is obviously to manually set "Check spelling" on
every text field you're writing in.

Possibly related bug: #609111

-- Package-specific info:


-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils               3.4            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig                2.8.0-2.1      generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                     2.11.3-2       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.24.2-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.20.1-2       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d               4.8.6-1        NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libstdc++6                4.4.5-8        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                    1:3.2.8-9      /proc file system utilities
ii  xulrunner-10.0            10.0-1~bpo60+1 XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  latex-xft-fonts     1.6.7-1              TrueType versions of some TeX font
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2    1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libkrb53            1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 transitional package for MIT Kerbe
pn  mozplugger          <none>               (no description available)
ii  ttf-lyx             1.6.7-1              TrueType versions of some TeX font
pn  ttf-mathematica4.1  <none>               (no description available)
ii  xfonts-mathml       4                    Type1 Symbol font for MathML

Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 depends on:
ii  libasoun 1.0.23-2.1                      shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1. 1.30.0-1                        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1 1.0.5-6+squeeze1                high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6    2.11.3-2                        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo 1.10.2-6~bpo60+1                The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus- 1.2.24-4+squeeze1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus- 0.88-2.1                        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent 1.4.13-stable-1                 An asynchronous event notification
ii  libfontc 2.8.0-2.1                       generic font configuration library
ii  libfreet 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze3              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1  1:4.4.5-8                       GCC support library
ii  libglib2 2.24.2-1                        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2. 2.20.1-2                        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunsp 1.2.11-1                        spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg6 6b1-1                           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmozjs 10.0-1~bpo60+1                  Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript li
ii  libnotif 0.5.0-2                         sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libnspr4 4.8.6-1                         NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3- 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1~bpo60+1 Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango 1.28.3-1+squeeze2               Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixma 0.24.0-1~bpo60+1                pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libreadl 6.1-3                           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsqlit 3.7.8-1~bpo60+1                 SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstart 0.10-1                          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc+ 4.4.5-8                         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvpx0  0.9.7.p1-2.squeeze2             VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4                       X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6 2:1.1.2-1                       X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxrend 1:0.9.6-1                       X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6   1:1.0.7-1                       X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3                compression library - runtime

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