How do I remove some dictionaries Firefox?
openSUSE 13.2
menu-add-ons-dictionalries
menu is now button right corner with 3 bars on it. Yep does not look like a menu to me either LOL But it appears to be the new Microsoft flat look menu button, maybe.
Sorry for the delay
Ok, I disabled the dictionaries, but when you click a word with right button / languages still appears a list of all the languages.
Do you really need all those languages. I only have English LOL
remove the dictionaries you don’t use.
restart after changes
How to remove?
Try right clicking. It is odd on mine there is a remove/delete button. I don’t speak the language so at first I did not notice that it appears you don’t have that.
What I did was go to /usr/share/hunspell and removed all the languages I didn’t want by deleting the files.
For me I only wanted US English, so I deleted everything except en_US.aff and en_US.dic
Hello, restarting this discussion 
The problem here is that openSUSE’s firefox will use the myspell dictionaries installed for openSUSE’s LibreOffice. On the case of Spanish, there are more than a dozen variants and all of them come from the same package myspell-es. Now, if you try to uninstall myspell-es, YaST2 will uninstall libreoffice-l10n-es too, which is not good.
The same happens with myspell-en, which comes with en-US, en-GB and many others, and with myspell-fr with all French variants and so on.
You cannot disable those system dictionaries from firefox (they are not shown under Complements → Dictionaries) but they are picked by firefox and that means that the language selection (right click → language) is a mess, with dozens of entries I do not need.
I know that I can manually delete those dictionaries, but that is not a real solution because they will come back on the next LibO’s update. So the question is: is there any way to at least “filter” the dictionary list on firefox language menu?
Regards,
Ricardo
OK, solved! (sort of)
Strange are the paths of the mind… not to mention firefox paths
If you go to
about:config
promise to be careful and search for chains containing the word “dictionary”, you’ll find one called
spellcheck.dictionary_path
by changing its value from the default (/usr/share/myspell) to
~/.mozilla/
you force firefox to only use the dictionaries installed by the user. So I just installed the Spanish and English variant I needed and my language menu is now human friendly again. Yes!
Regards,
Ricardo
On 2015-06-19 23:36, RGBsuse wrote:
> I know that I can manually delete those dictionaries, but that is not a
> real solution because they will come back on the next LibO’s update.
This is what I do, considering that not all LO updates update the
dictionaries. And also the list of dictionaries on LO is reduced this way.
But your trick with the mozilla directory is interesting. I wonder
whether installing dictionaries by the user we could point FF to a
directory containing symlinks to the system dictionaries that we want.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))