[PLUG] Wanted: Firefox Configuration Guru Help

[Sean Whitney]

Rich:

I've had problems with firefox printing and debian.  One thing to try is 
to remove the prefs.js file in the firefox directory and let firefox 
recreate a new one from scratch.



Sean

Rich Shepard 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
>