On 06 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 05 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> What is the reason that you don't install CUPS?
> 1. because lpr/lpd and magicfilter work perfectly for me.
> 2. because CUPS offers no advantage for me.
> 3. because when I did use it in the past my output was slightly
> worse than with my existing setup.
> 4. because, in the light of the above, using it will involve me
> in a fair amount of work for no clear benefit and possibly a
> worse output.
You are right IMHO; it is a bug, not just the Inevitable March Of
Progress. It seems clear that the Firefox developers did not
intend to drop lpr support:
- they don't say anything about such a change in the Release
Notes.
- in about:config there are still numerous references to
PostScript/Default, lpr., etc.
- it seems such a silly thing to remove; very little code can be
saved by this.
Surely it is a bug. From this item on bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430818
it seems that until a few days before the Firefox 3 release (which
took place on June 17th) Firefox could not print *at all*. It had
a totally empty print dialog box. It seems they could fix it to
some extent before the release date, but not completely.
Unfortunate for those who have used lpr to complete satisfaction
for so long (and not only for directly-connected printers BTW).
There are lots of other bugs in the new Firefox/Iceweasel. A
particularly serious one (all resized images became black
rectangles) apparently was quietly fixed a few days ago. I expect
the same will happen with the lpr bug. In the meantime I'll just
soldier on with the "inoticoming" trick. I refuse to change to cups!
Regards, Jan
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