From gentoo-user Wed Feb 22 17:48:27 2012 From: Nikos Chantziaras Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:48:27 +0000 To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: maybe [OT]: how to make new dictionaries work on Firefox 9? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=132993303418797 On 22/02/12 13:55, frares@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, All > > I have had problems installing new dictionaries in Firefox since I left > the old 3.X series. Now, on FF 9.0, it is still the same. > > I am able to install a new dictionary, just can't use it. I even tried > and installed a manual and an auto dictionary switcher, and the new > dictionary does not even appear on their list of available dictionaries. > > Am I missing something? For some weird reason, Firefox as packaged by Gentoo doesn't support dictionaries. It only supports hunspell (or aspell, can't remember) which you need to install first along with dictionaries for it. After you do that, you will get a gazillion of English dictionaries that you can't disable. You'll need to live with it, since no one cares about this bug.