Firefox spellchecker question

[ratcreature]

When Firefox spellchecks my input, the default seems to be set to Australian English for some reason. I would like to set it to American spelling as default, but I can't find such an option. It remembers when I previously selected US spelling for an URL (e.g. for the DW update page), but for each new one, it goes back to Australia.

I looked into the package list whether maybe I could just de-install the Australian and other unneeded English localization packages, but as far as I can tell selecting English automatically selects many countries, and you can't disable some localizations on their own. Similarly when I installed German, it now also offers me Austrian, Swiss and Luxembourgian spellchecks.

Comments

[blnchflr]

If you right-click in a text-field, don't you get a language option? I.e. changing Ls there sticks for me - if it doesn't for you, maybe it's a bug?

[ratcreature]

Well, yes, but it only remembers for that URL and goes right back to Australian English for the next input box. I find it very tedious to have to set the language again and again from Australia to US. I'd like the default to be US.

ETA: to be clearer, it is sticky but only on an URL basis, e.g. switching the language from Australia to US when answering your comment, made it remember US English now that I edit the comment, but if I comment on another entry, all is forgotten. Though weirdly enough it always starts with Australian English, when the logical thing would be for it to choose German, since that is the language of my FF menus and such, and in the language order for website display setting my order is German and only then US English.

[blnchflr]

All I can think is, bug?

[ratcreature]

It seems so. Actually once you mentioned that it might be a bug and not me to clueless to know where I have to click a setting, I googled my problem (should have done that earlier), and found a blog entry that describes a solution:
http://nucleussystems.com/blog/firefox-dictionary-change-default

Now that I did what was described there and changed the links in that spellcheck directory, the problem seems to have resolved itself.