Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/06/08 09:59, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
>> 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*. [..] > That's weird. Sid only has -rc_2_ and I can print just fine. > Unless Eric Dorland (the IW maintainer) fixed the code himself. >> 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. [..] > Where did you read this? I resize pictures, and they don't > turn into black rectangles. Unless what I'm thinking of isn't > what "they" are talking about... It could be that the "black rectangle bug" (which occurs / occurred, for instance, when a Web page serves a picture at a specific size, not its "natural" size) only happened with ATI Radeon cards. There are several bug reports about it, for instance this Ubuntu one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/182038 and very likely also Debian bug #487834. I have a Radeon, and had trouble with this bug in FF3, not in FF2. But as I said, it has disappeared (after an upgrade). The "lpr printing bug" may also disappear soon. The bugzilla page I mentioned now has a contribution by list member Mumia W. who says lpr printing works again after installing GTK+2.10 (from source). I'm going to try that.. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]