[PLUG] Wanted: Firefox Configuration Guru Help

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 15:19:10 UTC 2006


Rich-
This may sound stupid but have you invoked firefox from the command line so
you can see any output that shows up when you are taking particular actions
- such as printing in this case? You can also run it in debug mode with
firefox --debug

Drew-

On 9/26/06, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
>    The inability of firefox installed here to print the text on most pages
> needs to be resolved. Before you start telling me that the cure is to swap
> distributions, reboot, or whatever, I found a Google hit that reported the
> same problem on Debian last year. In that case, the single response was
> the
> problem arises when the printing (including print preview) uses firefox's
> built-in postscript generator "which is known to be buggy." Other Google
> hits suggest that it's related to javascript. The graphics print without
> problems (including the lines that separate sections of web pages) in
> preview and printing (to file or the printer).
>
>    I loaded about:config in a new tabbed window, but cannot find a
> reference
> to the postscript generator when I enter the find string, "print."
>
>    Firefox from 0.8.x through 1.0.x had no problems printing on my
> systems.
> Now it does and I have not changed fonts or anything else on the system
> (other than some user applications) between the time it printed and now.
> No
> new fonts. No new printers -- or printing systems. It may well be that
> this
> inability to print text displayed on pages began at the same time the
> sound
> became garbled when viewing video clips (e.g., from reuters.com). That,
> too,
> used to work. Now all video displays but the sound is garbled.
>
>    I have no idea how to go about isolating the source of the problem.
> It's
> very frustrating, particularly with those web pages that do not let me
> highlight text with the cursor and copy it to a text file.
>
>    Some of you are extremely clever at creating diagnostic strategies to
> find
> problem causes, and I'd like your ideas and suggestions. I'm sure that
> many
> of you are thoroughly familiar with firefox and other browsers because you
> develop and maintain web sites that must accommodate the idiosyncracities
> of
> various browsers.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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