It worked on the same harddisk, on my older Macbook. Then, I transferred the HD to my new Macbook and now, although everything else works fine, LT doesn’t.
OS: High Sierra
Firefox: 72.0.1
Not working on my Macbook
Hi Mathias, can you explain what exactly doesn’t work? Do you see the “LT” icon in the toolbar? Does it work on our simple test page, https://languagetool.org/development/simple.html?
So: yes, I see the icon. I also checked that LT was turned on. In fact, everything is on default settings.
I went to the test page and it doesn’t work either. All I see is the standard text correction tool’s underlining red dots.
Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing the add-on?
I have done that, of course.
Next thing I should do would probably be to delete its settings, if I can find them.
Have you checked if the LT-icon in the toolbar is not a ‘ghost’?
one of the macs at work had this issue with a network monitoring agent: the program-proper had been removed by a bogus (we learned later) cleanup tool, but the file that created the top-bar icon was still there and caused both installer and uninstaller to fail. (installer said “program already installed” while uninstaller said “no such program installed”)
The LT-tooltip is bright and shiny in my toolbar and all the switches in its menu are turned on.
doesn’t mean it can’t be a ‘ghost’.
Secondly, in the worst case, your issue may actually be a symptom of profile-corruption, which has only one cure… full profile reset.
I see. Okay, I’ll try this. Could indeed have happened due to the HD swap from one Macbook to the next. I just noticed the translation tool “Simple Translate” was also unresponsive.
One warning: resetting your profile should be done as a last resort as you’ll have to reinstall each and every add-on afterwards.