Spellchecker uses Great Britain spelling
Ubuntu 12.04, Firefox 29.0 that comes with it. Spellchecker (at least in facebook comments on a newspaper site) wants to "correct" me to use English spelling ("colour" vs. "color") I went to about:config and changed spellchecker.dictionary from en_GB to en_US but A) I'm still being prompted for English spelling, and B) at least once this setting has reset itself back to en_GB
How do I make my Firefox stick with US spelling as the default?
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This article outlines how to select spellcheck dictionary preferences without about:config.
If you don't want Firefox to autocorrect for you, and have Ubuntu do it instead, here's how:
- Open Firefox
- Click "Hotdog menu" in right corner
- Select "Preferences"
- Select "Advanced" tab
There you will see a browsing option where you can set your preference on autocorrect.
If you want to your system to handle autocorrect instead of Firefox, deselect this option.
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This can be caused by the presence and usage of installed Hunspell dictionaries (/usr/share/hunspell/) that have a different naming convention than what Firefox uses (an underscore instead of an hyphen).
- [/questions/992002] Why does FF have the wrong default spell-check language?
- [/questions/975459] Set DEFAULT spellcheck language
I have proposed a temporary solution here (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1010302#answer-652752) see if it can help you.