-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 12:47, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > 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).
According to (at least some posts in) that link, people using the nv driver were having the problem, and those using nvidia were not. > 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.. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhxIr0ACgkQS9HxQb37Xmcm2QCfdVO9drQtz/5VRcAxhMWLoZth ES4An3uZXDF7DV+XAPkeCUtY0PMDV+5Y =sUlI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]