madbiologist, yes this still occurs on Ubuntu 13.04 with Firefox 23. I have a laptop with the English and Dutch languages installed and the default available spell checking languages in Firefox are 6 versions of Dutch (Dutch Belgium, Dutch Antilles, Dutch Suriname, Dutch Aruba, Dutch Dutch and Dutch while I only need one version of Dutch and 4 versions of English (English UK, English USA, English South Africa, English Australia) while I only want the UK and USA versions. Note that I specified these preferences in Ubuntu's language settings (though these settings show a different selection of language varieties, e.g. only 1 Dutch version and no English South Africa, but does list English Canada and English New Zealand).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/651586 Title: Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox spellcheck has too many languages Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox spellcheck has too many languages. It does not follow the Ubuntu Language Support Standard (gnome-language- selector). Language Support (gnome-language-selector) has a feature which allows you to gray out languages you are not interested in seeing and black in the languages you would like to see. Mozilla apps should follow this or should at least offer a workaround allowing a user to disable certain languages. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: thunderbird 3.0.8+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Sep 29 17:49:00 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en_CA:en LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/651586/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp