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Firefox GTK+ IntegrationFirefox GTK+ IntegrationPosted May 28, 2008 10:46 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263)In reply to: Firefox GTK+ Integration by dskoll Parent article: Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)
If printing used to work and is now broken with no workaround by printing to a file, I don't really care about developer goals or justifications. From my point of view, it's just a project moving in the wrong direction. NOTABUG, the problem is with your system, not the browser.
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Firefox GTK+ Integration Posted May 28, 2008 11:47 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] ISABUG. Even if you find no printers, produce Postscript.
Firefox GTK+ Integration Posted May 28, 2008 11:57 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link] FEATUREREQUEST ;)
Firefox GTK+ Integration Posted May 28, 2008 13:09 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] REGRESSIONNOTAFEATUREREQUEST. :-) FF 2.0 will produce PostScript even if it doesn't detect printers, AFAIK.
Firefox GTK+ Integration Posted May 29, 2008 0:07 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] Sure, because FF2 had its own print dialog with its own CUPS integration etc. But there were a lot of problems with that, so we switched to the GTK+ print support. Now you will say that to ensure things keep working for all users, we need to ship support for the old print code as well as the GTK+ integration code. Of course, if we did that, people would complain about bloat. Can't win.
Firefox GTK+ Integration Posted May 29, 2008 2:53 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] I don't care if you only ship a print dialog with gtk+ print dialog support providing you have a way to generate Postscript to a file. Surely the Postscript rendering code needs to be built into Firefox anyway?
Firefox GTK+ Integration Posted May 29, 2008 5:53 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] We wouldn't want to provide "available by default" UI for a feature that only people with broken print setups would use. Someone could write an extension though. This PDF output extension might work for you if you can post-process the PDF. It probably only needs slight tweaks to make it output PS instead. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5971
Firefox GTK+ Integration Posted May 29, 2008 12:45 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] Print-to-PDF extension is perfect. Thank you!
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