Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 21:54:46 +0000, T o n g wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:02:54 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> Earlier T o n g wrote:
> >> My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking
> >> capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly
> >> installed lenny.
> >>
> >> How can I get it back?
> >
> > Did you check if it is activated?
> >
> > Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > Browsing > Check my spelling
> > as I type
>
> Thanks for the hint. Hmm... It's there, checked & activated.
>
> Anything else to check? (I have the libgtkspell0 installed).
AFAIK, libxul (the Gecko rendering engine library) uses libhunspell for
the spell checking. You can check if your libxul finds libhunspell:
$ ldd /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so | grep spell
libhunspell-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.2.so.0 (0x00007fb746616000)
I have libhunspell-1.2-0 version 1.2.6-1. Do you have upstream
Openoffice packages installed by any chance? AFAIK, they bring along
their own version of libhunspell, which can screw things up for
iceweasel.
> > (Spell checking works for me with iceweasel 3.0.3-2 on Sid/amd64.)
>
> I'm using 3.0.1-1 on lenny. It works before so the version should not be
> a problem.
Try to run iceweasel from a xterm with "-safe-mode" to make sure that
the problem is not caused by a broken add-on. Running from xterm might
produce a helpful error message.
By the way, I tested the spell checking with the input fields of
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/.
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