Spell check does not work in Firefox 2.0.0.3

[novasource]

When editing a blog post with Firefox 2.0.0.1, spell check does not work. Regardless of erroneous words present, clicking the "Toggle spellchecker" icon always returns a dialog saying "No misspellings found."

[foolswisdom]

Confirmed bug
ENV: WP trunk r4929

[dancoulter]

Added a property to allow the Firefox built-in spell checker to work.

[dancoulter]

Replying to dancoulter:

I miss-read this ticket. I am not having problems with WP 2.1.1 and Firefox 2.0.0.1 using the built in TinyMCE spellcheck. Ignore the patch file I uploaded.

[novasource]

Also doesn't work in 2.0.0.2

[novasource]

Replying to dancoulter:

Added a property to allow the Firefox built-in spell checker to work.

The patch didn't change anything for me.

[priv]

Replying to dancoulter:

Replying to dancoulter:

I miss-read this ticket. I am not having problems with WP 2.1.1 and Firefox 2.0.0.1 using the built in TinyMCE spellcheck. Ignore the patch file I uploaded.

No Problem +1(Firefox 2.0.0.2 and Wordpress 2.1.1), the spellchecker of TinyMCE is working fine here.

[Otto42]

Few things:

-The built-in firefox spell checker is disabled by default. I have a plugin to fix this here: ​http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2007/01/26/enable-firefox-spell-checking-in-wordpress-21/
It's a simple patch to enable this by default.

-The spell checker in TinyMCE current tries the server's pspell functionality. Failing that, it tries to use Google for spell checking. As noted in #3857, that does not work, but there's a newer version available which does.

The combination of both these fixes should eliminate these issues.

[novasource]

-The built-in firefox spell checker is disabled by default. I have a plugin to fix this here: ​http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2007/01/26/enable-firefox-spell-checking-in-wordpress-21/
It's a simple patch to enable this by default.

Thanks! I would rather use Firefox's built in spell checker, so I will enable this module.

-The spell checker in TinyMCE current tries the server's pspell functionality. Failing that, it tries to use Google for spell checking. As noted in #3857, that does not work, but there's a newer version available which does.

Huh, I am on 1and1.com. I wonder if they have pspell avaiable?

[novasource]

I just ran a WireShark sniff, and the spell check only does port 80 with my blog host. It does not port 80 to any other servers.

[novasource]

Updating version. Still broken with 2.1.2.

[Nazgul]

Replying to novasource:

Updating version. Still broken with 2.1.2.

A new version of the spellchecker went into trunk. Could you try and see if that fixed your problem?

[novasource]

Just as an FYI, I closed a few tickets because they were a problem with WPG2 2.01 plugin. For the record, this ticket was not resolved by disabling WPG2 and clearing my cache.

[novasource]

Replying to Nazgul:

Replying to novasource:

Updating version. Still broken with 2.1.2.

A new version of the spellchecker went into trunk. Could you try and see if that fixed your problem?

Sorry, I'm not really familiar with how to do that. Are there any guides? (It's not lack of skills; I just don't know where to begin looking.)

[Nazgul]

Replying to novasource:

Replying to Nazgul:

A new version of the spellchecker went into trunk. Could you try and see if that fixed your problem?

Sorry, I'm not really familiar with how to do that. Are there any guides? (It's not lack of skills; I just don't know where to begin looking.)

The easiest way is through the nightly builds:
​http://wordpress.org/download/nightly/

If you try one of those, don't forget to use a new database, as downgrading without restoring database backups is not supported.

[novasource]

Replying to Nazgul:

Replying to novasource:

Replying to Nazgul:

A new version of the spellchecker went into trunk. Could you try and see if that fixed your problem?

Sorry, I'm not really familiar with how to do that. Are there any guides? (It's not lack of skills; I just don't know where to begin looking.)

The easiest way is through the nightly builds:
​http://wordpress.org/download/nightly/

If you try one of those, don't forget to use a new database, as downgrading without restoring database backups is not supported.

I got the latest build, and it seems to work. I like that spellcheck a lot better.

[foolswisdom]

Replying to novasource:

I got the latest build, and it seems to work. I like that spellcheck a lot better.

Closing as fixed.