Remove Firefox Dictionaries

Hello speltriao1

This is something that’s changed in Fedora 32.

If you go to about:config and type ‘spellchecker’, you’ll see there is a config entry called

spellchecker.dictionary.path

and it points to the directory /usr/share/myspell, where all the spell-check dictionaries are stored:

ls -l /usr/share/myspell

Note that most of them are just links.

To get rid of all the many English entries on the pop-up menu, add /en_US to the end of the config entry so that it reads

/usr/share/myspell/en_US

That’ll hide all the dictionaries other than the US. Restart firefox after changing the config.

You’ll note that the ‘Dictionaries’ section in Add-ons Manager shows only dictionaries you’ve added yourself and not those in the myspell directory.

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