On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 20:43, David Brownlee <a...@absd.org> wrote: > > What is the current wisdom on printing from Firefox? > > It appears that from firefox-60 the ability to generale ps was > removed, so the lpd backend was also removed. > > There is a reference and a patch to add back print to lpd (but not > generate ps) for FreeBSD at: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2018-May/008327.html > > Currently I have a google cloudprint enabled printer, so for anything > where I don't mind the print data bouncing via any number of cloud > boxes I can print to a PDF file, then just upload to cloudprint. > > However this feels... suboptimal :) > > I can easily setup lpd, and probably throw in a PDF and PS to > whatever-my-random-epson supports filter, but if Firefox won't print > to lpd then its not ideal - though presumably we could add a patch to > add back in the lpd backend > > Its been about two decades since I last setup cups :), - I ran through > the basic setup, but even though cupsd was running and I could see the > printer firefox did not show it (did all the standard reset printer > values in firefox & restart, but the print dialog still just shows > print to file). Also I then have the stupid joy of /usr/bin/lpd and > /usr/pkg/bin/lpd and friends. > > What are other people doing?
I haven't had the particular need to print from firefox on NetBSD recently; after reading this I tried... The moment I hit the 'Print' menu item to get the dialog, my firefox process goes in an endless loop, becoming completely unresponsive; the trace is as follows (just an excerpt; it repeats ad inf.): 69 20 firefox __clock_gettime50(0x3, 0x7c8abf31dc30) = 0 2669 1 firefox poll = 0 2669 20 firefox ___lwp_park60 Err#60 ETIMEDOUT 2669 20 firefox __clock_gettime50(0x3, 0x7c8abf31dc50) = 0 2669 20 firefox __clock_gettime50(0x3, 0x7c8abf31dc90) = 0 669 20 firefox __clock_gettime50(0x3, 0x7c8abf31dc30) = 0 2669 1 firefox poll = 0 2669 1 firefox __socket30(0x2, 0x1, 0) = 36 2669 1 firefox setsockopt(0x24, 0xffff, 0x4, 0x7f7fff480edc, 0x4) = 0 2669 1 firefox setsockopt(0x24, 0xffff, 0x200, 0x7f7fff480edc, 0x4) = 0 2669 1 firefox setsockopt(0x24, 0xffff, 0x800, 0x7f7fff480edc, 0x4) = 0 2669 1 firefox setsockopt(0x24, 0x6, 0x1, 0x7f7fff480edc, 0x4) = 0 2669 1 firefox fcntl(0x24, 0x2, 0x1) = 0 2669 1 firefox fcntl(0x24, 0x3, 0) = 16777218 2669 1 firefox fcntl(0x24, 0x4, 0x1000006) = 0 2669 1 firefox connect(0x24, 0x7c8ac39aa9c8, 0x10) Err#36 EINPROGRESS 2669 1 firefox fcntl(0x24, 0x4, 0x1000002) = 0 2669 20 firefox ___lwp_park60 Err#60 ETIMEDOUT 2669 20 firefox __clock_gettime50(0x3, 0x7c8abf31dc50) = 0 ... So no printing from firefox for me at all. This is 9.99.31 from today (amd64), firefox 71.0. > > Thanks > > David Chavdar -- ----