It makes the menu cluttered and confusing when you have other languages to use.
According to this post in Reddit that I found, the user browngray says the following:
This happens because Firefox pulls your system's Hunspell dictionaries. The exact mechanism is /usr/lib64/firefox/dictionaries is symlinked to /usr/share/myspell. You'll see in that folder that the other English dictionaries are simply symlinked to either en-GB or en-US. Not sure about other DEs, but for GNOME you'll Linus yourself if you remove hunspell-en-US since it's a dependency of gnome-shell. A clean fix for it is to go to about:config and set spellchecker.dictionary_path to /usr/share/myspell/en_US Restart Firefox and see that you only have one spellcheck option.
This happens because Firefox pulls your system's Hunspell dictionaries. The exact mechanism is /usr/lib64/firefox/dictionaries is symlinked to /usr/share/myspell. You'll see in that folder that the other English dictionaries are simply symlinked to either en-GB or en-US.
Not sure about other DEs, but for GNOME you'll Linus yourself if you remove hunspell-en-US since it's a dependency of gnome-shell.
A clean fix for it is to go to about:config and set spellchecker.dictionary_path to /usr/share/myspell/en_US
Restart Firefox and see that you only have one spellcheck option.
I'm using Firefox 96 and Fedora 35. In Settings > Language, only english (en-US) is set as the system language:
Edit: I can't upload images. I get a Fatal Error (500) message.
Hi, I suggest you report this against Firefox (or hunspell if you really think something is wrong with hunspell configuration, but I doubt it). This seems outside the scope of what WG normally deals with.
Metadata Update from @catanzaro: - Issue close_status updated to: Deferred to upstream - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
Hi, I suggest you report this against Firefox
Understood, thanks!
This seems outside the scope of what WG normally deals with.
What's WG?
Sorry, we're the Workstation Working Group. This is a good place for higher-level design issues, but not a good place for bugs.
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