madbiologist, yes this still occurs on Ubuntu 13.04 with Firefox 23. I have a laptop with the English and Dutch languages installed and the default available spell checking languages in Firefox are 6 versions of Dutch (Dutch Belgium, Dutch Antilles, Dutch Suriname, Dutch Aruba, Dutch Dutch and Dutch while I only need one version of Dutch and 4 versions of English (English UK, English USA, English South Africa, English Australia) while I only want the UK and USA versions. Note that I specified these preferences in Ubuntu's language settings (though these settings show a different selection of language varieties, e.g. only 1 Dutch version and no English South Africa, but does list English Canada and English New Zealand).
madbiologist, yes this still occurs on Ubuntu 13.04 with Firefox 23. I have a laptop with the English and Dutch languages installed and the default available spell checking languages in Firefox are 6 versions of Dutch (Dutch Belgium, Dutch Antilles, Dutch Suriname, Dutch Aruba, Dutch Dutch and Dutch while I only need one version of Dutch and 4 versions of English (English UK, English USA, English South Africa, English Australia) while I only want the UK and USA versions. Note that I specified these preferences in Ubuntu's language settings (though these settings show a different selection of language varieties, e.g. only 1 Dutch version and no English South Africa, but does list English Canada and English New Zealand).