Public bug reported: Fully up-to-date Wily, although this has been going on for a long time. Use Firefox to e.g. view Facebook. Start writing some new status and notice that *all* your English words are flagged as misspelled. Right click to bring up the Languages menu and notice that Arabic (Qatar) is the default language, not English. Locale is clearly en_US.UTF-8. Use the Language menu to choose English (United States) and the autospell works correctly.
** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- 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/1503024 Title: Firefox text windows pick the wrong language by default Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Fully up-to-date Wily, although this has been going on for a long time. Use Firefox to e.g. view Facebook. Start writing some new status and notice that *all* your English words are flagged as misspelled. Right click to bring up the Languages menu and notice that Arabic (Qatar) is the default language, not English. Locale is clearly en_US.UTF-8. Use the Language menu to choose English (United States) and the autospell works correctly. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1503024/+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