GB spellchecker not working on flickr

[RobertJ]

Robert, you've nailed it!

Doesn't explain why English (United States) was an option when I've removed it though.

I "think" that all builds of FF have the US spell checker installed which, is not the same as the language pack. Again not sure.

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[dfoulkes]

Just a FYI... creating a new Test profile does not in any way mess with your default profile.... That procedure is one of the basic (1st) tests in trying to resolve issues... as it turned out... it wouldn't have help anyway.

Glad this thing got resolved.

[storm_the_dog]

You're probably right, The US spell-checker is probably hard-wired into FF.

[James]

All versions of Firefox comes with the inline spellchecker (since it existed as of Firefox 2.0). However only a few locales like en-US and maybe a couple others like fr comes with a dictionary due to licensing reasons.

If you have the en-GB locale of Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all then you do not need the en-GB language pack. The en-GB Firefox does not come with a dictionary.

The Language Packs is for the language of the UI or User Interface. For example you can have one install of Firefox but then be able to change the language of the UI to different languages. They are not used with the inline spell checker.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-use-firefox-spell-checker
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-firefox-interface-other-languages-language-pack

[storm_the_dog]

OK, good info, James. I wasn't aware I could add and remove words, so those links were useful, thanks.