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Running Ubuntu 14.04, but happened with 13.10 too. Also tried disabling language add-ons but no es_CU is there anyway. The about:config change works until I restart.

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  • Go to help >>> Troubleshooting information >>> reset firefox. Sep 6, 2014 at 3:18

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I had this same problem, despite having creating a user.js file in my profile directory with the following single line of content:

user_pref("spellchecker.dictionary", "en_US");

I fixed it by uninstalling myspell-es. Since I still need to have a Spanish dictionary to use in LibreOffice, I downloaded and installed the generico-america-latina-y-espana dictionary (although I had to rename it generico-america-latina-y-espana.oxt to get it to install).

See this mozillaZine post for full details, which may help anyone who has a similar, but not quite the same, problem.

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    It's a year later (Firefox 40 on Ubuntu 14.04)... but for what it's worth, when right-click here in this comment-editor box, and select English (United States) from the Languages , about:config shows the spellchecker.dictionary setting to be en-US, not en_US. Similarly, it uses a hyphen for the other variants, e.g. en-GB, en-ZA etc. So I wonder if putting "en-US" in your user.js would have made a difference.
    – Lambart
    Sep 20, 2015 at 20:28
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Press ctrl+alt+T.

It will open a terminal window

Then enter 'su' it will prompt for root password. after that type firefox. Make necessary changes now. and also have a look http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2865587

I will suggest you to reset firefox then apply the necessary changes. In firefox menu bar go to help>troubleshooting information>reset firefox. It will reset the firefox.

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  • By running Firefox as root, wouldn't you just be changing the root user's profile settings? Not to mention making it easier for malware to compromise security--I can't think of any good reasons to run a web browser as a superuser.
    – Lambart
    Sep 20, 2015 at 20:24
  • I still have problems with spell check in ubuntu 15.04.
    – cbudd
    Nov 5, 2015 at 12:19

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