On Sunday 31 January 2010 12.02:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 30 Jan, Dan Johansson wrote: > > As of lately my Firefox-bin (running on AMD64) does not find any of my > > CUPS Printers, only "Print to File" and "LPR" are available for printing. > > From every other program I can print normally (even from gtk-demo -> > > printing) > > > > I have looked at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266678 but that > > did not help. > > I had the same problem here. The only (but perfect) solution was to > abandon Firefox-bin in favour of Firefox. The compilation took a minute > only (since most functionality is in xulrunner, which I need anyway). > In addition plugins are working (better) now since firefox-bin is a 32 > bit application on a 64 bit machine which isn't ideal.
Yes, the problem is the plugins - that is why I was forced to change to firefox-bin in the first place when I moved to AMD64 (some years ago). Have you got Shockwave, Java, Adobe to work with the "Standard" (Gentoo way) Firefox? -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************
