British English Dictionary not compatible !

[beacon12]

Progress. Thanks for your help malliz. I did as you suggested and saw that US was ticked. I then ticked British, but when I returned to Thunderbird my language was still corrected. I repeated the exercise, only this time clicked on add dictionary and (re)installed the British English one. There was no message about incompatibility; the only thing was that the restart firefox box stayed greyed out, but I re-started manually. It made no difference, however, as when I typed 'colour' it was marked as a mistake.

[LIMPET235]

You may like to try ours...
The Ozzie one always woiks gud...L.

[beacon12]

Thanks for the invitation Limpet. I think we spell much the same even if we talk a bit differently. I took up your suggestion and found the same problems, but in the process the UK version suddenly came alive. I don't know what I did, but something worked.

[LIMPET235]

It maybe got scared by the thought of having an 'Ozzie' next to it... L..

ps. I wuz borne in Yorkshear.

[kevin551]

Have just downloaded Yoxi's zip and installed the tweaked British Dictionary.
It is working fine with firefox 3 beta2
Thanks

[brickbuilder]

Actually I just installed again for Firefox 2.0.0.17 and after reboot the English dictionary is back again

[Brocksters]

Thanks for the advice here, I have finally managed to install British English dictionary successfully into Thunderbird.

I downloaded the .xpi file and then used 7-Zip to extract the 2 relevant dictionary files (en-GB.aff and en-GB.dic) to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\dictionaries and heh presto no more typos.

The help here has saved me many more frustrating hours of trawling through the internet

Thanks