[PLUG] Firefox Lost Printers

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Daniel Hedlund wrote:

> Just to confirm, this is the 32-bit version of Firefox on the 32-bit
> version of slackware?

Daniel,

   Confirmed.

> Have you restarted firefox since restarting cups?

   Yes. CUPS was restarted yesterday after re-defining laser5_duplex. Firefox
was shut down last evening when I logged off the host.

> If Firefox's GTK backend can't connect to CUPS, it'll either cause the
> printer dialogue to freeze Firefox or return no results (just print to
> file, depending on the version of either Firefox or GTK).

   Probably firefox's printer dialog box not seeing the printers.

> Try running Firefox from the command line, you might get useful output on
> the console, similar to this blog post:
> http://dullsharpness.com/2012/02/02/fix-firefox-empty-printer-list-on-debian-squeeze-64-bit/
>
> Ensure dbus is running.

   Thanks. Will do tomorrow morning.

Rich