[Bug 10910]
(In reply to Brian Birtles (:birtles) from comment #95) > This appears to have broken printer settings on Windows with e10s enabled > (bug 1176141). My bad, this bug has nothing to do with it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
This appears to have broken printer settings on Windows with e10s enabled (bug 1176141). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f3661245688b https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d799f63ed244 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c96721303125 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/86f5957e60f9 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/78349b2422e8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Created attachment 8620685 part 5: remove ununsed plexName colorspace resolutionName and downloadFonts This was only used to write to and read from otherwise unused preferences. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Created attachment 8620681 remove ununsed nsIPrintSettings::printCommand and print_command prefs These was used only to write to and read from each other. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
This bug is not half as bad now that the fix for bug 446041 provides that print.print_paper_* prefs (once they exist) will override print.postscript.paper_size. The print.print_paper_* prefs will record the previous setting, but this will only be different from print.postscript.paper_size if the value is been changed in the page setup. There is also much code here that can be removed and so make the use of different prefs somewhat less confusing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/f3661245688b https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/d799f63ed244 https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/c96721303125 https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/86f5957e60f9 https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/78349b2422e8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Created attachment 8620682 use GTK default paper size and orientation In the nsPrintSettingsGTK constructor, gtk_paper_size_new(nullptr) gets the system default paper size from the locale and gtk_page_setup_new() sets default orientation to portrait. These are subsequently overridden by prefs if any have been saved from a previous nsPrintSettingsGTK. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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Comment on attachment 8620682 use GTK default paper size and orientation (In reply to Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (Mozilla Corporation) from comment #89) > So with this patch, do we still remember the user's paper size in some way? Yes. The code removed here was not reading user's prefs. Those prefs were never saved. > How? (In reply to Karl Tomlinson (ni?:karlt) from comment #85) > These are subsequently overridden by prefs if any have been saved from > a previous nsPrintSettingsGTK. This happens in nsPrintOptions from InitPrintSettingsFromPrefs(), called after InitPrintSettingsFromPrinter(). https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/9ebd530c5843/widget/nsPrintOptionsImpl.cpp#l542 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/9ebd530c5843/dom/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp#l7011 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Created attachment 8620683 remove print(|.)(|.printer_).filename pref reading code There are no default pref values, and even if some have been set, the value is subsequently overridden by the print.print_to_filename pref, which exists if saved from a previous nsPrintSettingsGTK. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Created attachment 8620684 remove meaningless GetPrintMethod() -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Created attachment 8621437 part 4: remove meaningless GetPrintMethod() v1.1 Also removed a now-unused nsresult and a repeated argument sanity check. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Comment on attachment 8621437 part 4: remove meaningless GetPrintMethod() v1.1 Review of attachment 8621437: - Delicious! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Comment on attachment 8620682 use GTK default paper size and orientation Review of attachment 8620682: - So with this patch, do we still remember the user's paper size in some way? How? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Elias, in you comment #175 you didn't wrote which version of Firefox you had when you run it for the first time. Also, have you noticed that if you make a change in Regional Formats in System Settings > Language > Language Support > Regional Formats the change takes effect the next time you log in (see my comment #172). Then check what you get when you run the locale command in the terminal window. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I tested my hypothesis above. I made a Live USB stick with space to save settings and updates. I used ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso. After changing languge settings to finnish and installing all localization files I opened Firefox for the first time. Paper size in firefox was letter, not A4 as it is supposed to be. Then I changed the variable print.postscript.paper_size to iso_a4 in Firefox config, closed and reopened Firefox and checked if the paper size change persisted. It did, also it was still A4. After that I did sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get upgrade. After that and restarting Firefox the paper size was still A4. I think this proves my guess was wrong. There is something else that changes the paper size _back_ to letter size from A4 because this happens to me quite often. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
The bug still exists in Thunderbird (not sure about Firefox). Every time Thunderbird is updated the paper size is changed to letter even if the user uses locale for which the right size is A4. Check out this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=889088=12423297#post12423297 Could it be the case that when Thunderbird update is installed, update process does not check at all what is 1) in the locale or 2) what value Thunderbird config variable print.postscript.paper_size has? This would explain the nasty behaviour. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I've tested Firefox 41 on Ubuntu 15.04 and I'd say that the issue has been fixed. Here is the test procedure: (1) Check your Regional Formats in System Settings > Language > Language Support > Regional Formats. Let's say this option is set to "English (United Kingdom)" (if you change it, the change takes effect the next time you log in). That option will change the environment variables for various locale categories including LC_PAPER. (2) Start Firefox with default user settings. You can do it by running "firefox -P" and creating a new user profile. (3) Try to print (Ctrl+P). On the Page Setup tab you get "Paper size: A4". I get this result even without step (2). If the Regional Formats are set to "English (United States)" then you get "Paper Size: US Letter". You can also test this without changing Regional Formats: in the Terminal Window run the following commands and check the paper size as in step (3) above: LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 firefox LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 firefox -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Paper size shall be independent of language or locale. It should be a parameter that can be set by the user, depending on stationery that is being used in the printer. There may be a default size, depending on geographical region (normal paper size sold in that country), but NOT on language. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
The fix does not work as per now. My suggestion is: erase all countries 1) using letter size paper and/or 2) using imperial measurements instead of metric. I'm fed up with the bliss of not knowing anything about life outside one's own country. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Should land for Firefox 41, which will be a few weeks (22nd Sept) before 15.10 arrives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Fix released? Amazing! Will we see it in Ubuntu 15.10? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
** Changed in: firefox Status: In Progress = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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I'm also annoyed that every firefox i run have the letter as default page size... and of course, one only discovers this after trying to print and nothing show up on the printer. If in the past, print was little used, with the PDFjs, people start to print a lot more from firefox, making this issue more important. If this can not be fixed, at very least remove the default, leave it BLANK... on first printing, ask what paper size one wants... is not as friendly as a default, but having a broken default, trying to print and getting nothing is even worst. Most people will never know that the problem is the wrong paper size and don't understand why they don't have any printout. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947125 Actually, while the windows version works better, it is screwed too, specially on unusually paper sizes and margins. The main problem with letter is, that the gtk code part can't understand ps paper names, and the ps paper names doesn't understand iso_a4. The right solution would be to drop the whole thing and query printer and paper names directly via ipp or use only gtk code and throw the old cups lib and ps based query solution. Considering the other bug #629500 is stuck as well. My solution will be my own private inhouse addon as can no longer wait for a solution. The win32 version works more or less, except CSS2 Margins are still broken. For the linux version I plan to to use a ipp based solution or directly accessing cups via js-ctypes. Accessing CUPS via socket and ipp protocol, query paper sizes, create a postscript file and send it directly should be a more future proof technology. Technical that should work on OSX and if you have the right url with any ipp aware network printer, but that isn't my goal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #947125 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947125 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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Well the whole situation is very complex, the other platform code is more or less broken too. Bug 629500 sums the whole situation quite good and looks like a welcome refactor of the whole code base, maybe it will land in the next years? Feels like gecko/firefox printing is stuck in IE6 age... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
I completely agree with the last two commenters. This bug is getting beyond ridiculous. It is an embarrassment for Mozilla. Just fix it, already. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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I have submitted a duplicate and have been following this bug for years, saddly seeing no resolution at all. Some stuff must be made clear: Paper size names are surely locale dependent (Letter in the US is Carta in Brazil), but the default value for the paper size is NOT. It is determined by the host operating system, i.e., the software component which is responsible for handling the printers and their queues. Any default value provided by Firefox, anywhere, is WRONG. Please find every line setting a default value and get rid of it. I have not noticed this bug acting for quite a while in Windows and Mac OS, so this is clearly a platform independent feature which which was corrected the wrong way, probably in the platform dependent module. The linux module should get this values from cups, and that's it -- why on earth does 'letter' keeps popping up? Where does this value come from? Please get rid of it, I already abandoned Firefox for any printing in my Linux boxes, and I am on the verge of abandoning it whatsoever, just because of this stupid little bug which persists for more than a decade. I cannot even find a place to buy letter-sixed paper if I needed to. It doesn't exist in Brazil, although some weird legal sizes are still used in some time-shifted places like notary offices and advocacy firms. Weather websites are smart enough to tell I'm im Rio de Janeiro, but show temperatures in Fahrenheit and wind speed in miles/h. My new GPS app knows I'm im Brazil but shows distandes in miles and yards. My music editor (made in Europe!) gets the paper size right, but still defaults margins in inches, and worst: when I change them, they get rounded to the nearest inch fraction, so I keep getting 2.98 mm instead of 3.00 ! How an European software chooses to use inches inside it is beyond my understanding. This must have something to do with (very old) development frameworks. Firefox should not be this dumb, and specially not in a internationally freely distributed OS like Linux. Please do something. Let us get rid of all US medieval defaults, they're like a curse. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
I have just followed the procedure of; 1) Download Firefox-24.0 English(UK) version for Linux 2) Download Firefox-24.0 English(UK) version for Linux again and compare just to be sure I didn't accidentally get the wrong one 3) Check environment and observe LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 4) Check printer settings and see that default paper size is A4 5) rm -rf ~/.mozilla so there are no previous settings. 6) As root, rm -rf /opt/firefox and extract the one I just downloaded 7) as normal user again, run firefox and get the usual first-run page 8) about:config and search for paper_size Observe that paper size is letter. There is nothing on my computer that suggests it should be using letter, and no other program that I ever print from has EVER decided that the paper size should be letter. Only firefox gets this wrong. It's been getting it wrong now for well over ten years. I like everything else about firefox except for this one infuriating bug. This bug was first filed in 2002. It's now 2013. I've just upgraded to Firefox 24.0 on all my machines and my default paper size has, once again as it does every upgrade, reverted to the US_Letter papersize. I live in the other 96% of the world that uses A4 paper, so every time I try to print from Firefox I get an error message on my printer. OpenOffice and Libreoffice get the paper size right. GIMP gets the paper size right. Inkscape gets the papersize right. Abiword gets the paper size right. Gedit gets the paper size right. Tuxpaint gets the papersize right. EVERY OTHER program I use under any distro of Linux manages to correctly determine that I use A4 paper and doesn't give me any problems. But not Firefox. Firefox defaults to US_Letter. Even though my printer is set for A4. Even though my language is en_NZ. Even when I've manually changed ALL of the defaults back to A4 under about:config it still bloody-mindedly sets everything back to US-Letter every singe time there's some minor point- update of Firefox. Firefox is the ONLY program that does this. And it's been doing it far too long. Pleas, for the love of Free Software, FIX THIS BUG. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I like everything else about firefox except for this one infuriating bug. This bug was first filed in 2004. It's now 2013. I've just upgraded to Firefox 24.0 on Debian and my default paper size has, once again as it does every upgrade, reverted to the US_Letter papersize. I live in the other 96% of the world that uses A4 paper, so every time I try to print from Firefox I get an error message on my printer. OpenOffice and Libreoffice get the paper size right. GIMP gets the paper size right. Inkscape gets the papersize right. Abiword gets the paper size right. Gedit gets the paper size right. Tuxpaint gets the papersize right. EVERY OTHER program I use under any distro of Linux manages to correctly determine that I use A4 paper and doesn't give me any problems. But not Firefox. Firefox defaults to US_Letter. Even though my printer is set for A4. Even though my language is en_NZ. Even when I've manually changed ALL of the defaults back to A4 under about:config it still bloody-mindedly sets everything back to US-Letter every singe time there's some minor point- update of Firefox. Firefox is the ONLY program that does this. And it's been doing it far too long. Pleas, for the love of Free Software, FIX THIS BUG. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
So continuing my previous rant; I have just followed the procedure of 1) Download Firefox-24.0 English(UK) version for Linux 2) Download Firefox-24.0 English(UK) version for Linux again and compare just to be sure I didn't accidentally get the wrong one 3) Check environment and observe LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 4) Check printer settings and see that default paper size is A4 5) rm -rf ~/.mozilla so there are no previous settings. 6) As root, rm -rf /opt/firefox and extract the one I just downloaded 7) as normal user again, run firefox and get the usual first-run page 8) about:config and search for paper_size Observe that paper size is letter. There is nothing on my computer that suggests it should be using letter, and as mentioned earlier no other program that I ever print from has EVER decided that the paper size should be letter. Only firefox gets this wrong. It's been getting it wrong now for about ten years. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
In firefox 20.0, print to file defaults to letter. If I change this to A4, the PDF file on disk is still marked as size Letter. So various PDF readers assume it's Letter. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
in print-to-file I first have to select a different paper size (any different paper size), then re-select A4, then I get A4 paper size in the .pdf. Otherwise I get letter. printer_Print_to_File.print_paper_name=iso_a4 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
@John - Have a look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12423297 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Am 18.12.2012 04:55, schrieb Andre: Hello John, I'm sorry. This is not a support forum. Please head over to http://askUbuntu.com/ where you will get quickly a reply. You can login to AskUbuntu with your Launchpad/Ubuntu-Account by choosing OpenID. Cannot find entails is not listed, and may be a related bug. Do not bluntly brush these off, but handle properly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I cannot manage to find the right setting for Firefox 17.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04. Can someone please provide an advise on how to configure A4 as the default page size? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Hello John, I'm sorry. This is not a support forum. Please head over to http://askUbuntu.com/ where you will get quickly a reply. You can login to AskUbuntu with your Launchpad/Ubuntu-Account by choosing OpenID. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
** Changed in: firefox (Baltix) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I noticed that when I set print.postscript.paper.size = iso_a4 instead of A4, in about:config I do no longer get the warning message from Gtk (I noticed that there were a few other settings that used iso_a4) I did work though but I don't like warning messages. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
This bug is STILL not fixed in 10.04 with Firefox 14.0.1 Is this related to bug #627648 that applies to both Firefox and Thunderbird and why, after 8 YEARS is this still an issue for the majority of the world that use A4 paper and not US Letter? Seriously, what is happening here? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Cleaned up the bug tasks a little, we don't need 2 upstream tasks since this is in the Core. firefox-3.5 and firefox-3.0 don't exist in supported stable Desktop releases. Ubufox isn't affected either as it's doing nothing wrong. ** No longer affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: ubufox (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged ** No longer affects: thunderbird -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Just to add to this bug discussion my observation in bug #627648 that the about:support setting for user-modified parameters do not appear to change in any when you alter the global paper size, which may be related to why this is continually reset on version 'upgrades'. This trait makes the lack of correct system-based defaults even worse as every user's account has to be manually reset following any security fixes, etc, for Firefox and Thunderbird. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
** Attachment added: script to fix user-settings system wide https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+attachment/3178832/+files/fix-firefox-user-settings.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Add the prefs lines from #143 to the file /etc/firefox/syspref.js instead of seperate files. I tested this on a Ubuntu 12.04 with firefox 13 and it works as defaults for user-settings that you create after that change. It does not override user-settings that exists already! In this case you can change these settings with #147. In #143 i am referring to thunderbird. I hope this is not confusing, but this works equivalently for firefox if you user /etc/firefox/pref instead of /etc/thunderbird/pref. In theory you could also use /usr/lib/firefox/defaults/pref for the settings but anything you change here will be gone with the next firefox update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I must correct: the subdirectory /etc/firefox/pref is outdated and no more used by recent versions in ubuntu. Put adjustments to /etc/firefox/syspref.js works. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
You can also lock down these settings, then these settings override user-settings. To do that you have to use lockPref(print.print_paper_name, iso_a4); instead of pref(print.print_paper_name, iso_a4);. This has been improved, as it did not work properly with older versions of firefox. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Happy belated tenth birthday, dear bug! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
i am on ubuntu natty, with thunderbird 12 i run it on a terminal server with 20 users on it. Before that i utilized thinderbird 3 as long as i could. I had to adjust the parameters with that change, as they were a little different in version 3. I named the file aa_paper.js, i have others in that directory too, like aa_proxy.js and aa_cache.js for variuous global settings. Files in that directory are processed in reversed sort order (at least that waas like this in version 3), therefore mine start with aa_ . File name must end with .js When you test this, you should completely wipe or move the ~/.thunderbird folder to make sure that user settings do not interfere, because they would have preference over global settings. hope that helps! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Try to put a file in /etc/thunderbird/pref, which is used by the ubuntu thunderbird with the following content: // pref(print.print_landscape, false); pref(print.print_paper_size_height, 297,00); pref(print.print_paper_size_width, 210,00); pref(print.print_paper_size_unit, 1); pref(print.print_paper_size_type, 1); pref(print.print_paper_name, iso_a4); // pref(print.postscript.paper_name,iso_a4); pref(print.postscript.orientation, portrait); That should work as a default for the first use of a printer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
@ferro : your work-around isn't working for me. which version of ubuntu/thunderbird are you on? how did you name the file? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
I just did a new installation of Xubuntu 11.10, and then upgraded all the packages. The resulting Firefox version is 11.0. I changed the contents of my /etc/defaults/locale file to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 then logged out and back in again. Now, when I print a page from Firefox, A4 is the paper size used, which is correct, but when I do a print-to-file, the default paper size is still letter. So this bug has not yet been completely fixed. By the way, it's coming up on the bug's tenth birthday. Should we get together to buy something nice for it, what do you say? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
As I just commented in the sister bug on the Mozilla bugzilla (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147419): I just did a new installation of Xubuntu 11.10, and then upgraded all the packages. The resulting Firefox version is 11.0. I changed the contents of my /etc/defaults/locale file to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 then logged out and back in again. Now, when I print a page from Firefox, A4 is the paper size used, which is correct, but when I do a print-to-file, the default paper size is still letter. So this bug has not yet been completely fixed. By the way, it's coming up on the bug's tenth birthday. Should we get together to buy something nice for it, what do you say? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Hi, I have the same bug in Firefox 7.0.1 on a french installation of Kubuntu 11.10. The standard paper format in France is A4. I always use the last stable version of Firefox distributed by Canonical. I print each month a PDF receipt of the payment of my rent (I pay at the end of the month). I never cared about setting the paper format. So it is interesting to see what happened in the last years, the format of my receipts has been continuously changing over the time: August 2008 to February 2009: A4 (intrepid) March 2009 to March 2011: US letter (jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick) April 2011 to August 2011: A4 (natty) August 2011 to now: US letter (natty, oneiric) The change from US letter to A4 end of April 2011 can be related with the update to Firefox 4.0. The last change back to US letter can be related with the update to Firefox 7.0. The workaround proposed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/comments/109 worked for me. A fix should change the FF setting according to the locale. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
** Changed in: ubufox (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Same problem with Thunderbird 5.0 stable on Natty. ** Also affects: thunderbird Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
In Firefox 5, this problem seems to be worse than before. 1. I support a small architecture practice with 40 workstations on Windows (XP SP3). - Due to their CAD package requirements, the OS cannot be changed (at least not in the near term). 2. The Firefox printer preferences dialog under Windows does *not* allow the paper size to be set at all. 3. The native printer preferences dialog under Windows *does* allow the paper size to be set, but the values are ignored by Firefox. **Note: When the native printer setup dialog is called up from Firefox, it (wrongly) shows the printer page size to be Letter (it is actually set to A4). If I change it to A4, then the setting is actually shown as A4 (97%) indicating that the page will be reduced to fit. If I print with this setting, the output is the same (wrong). --If, in the native print setup dialog, I go to the printer settings, the page size there is also set to Letter; if I change that to A4, and then return to the print settings, then A4 becomes A4 (100%). If I print with these settings, the outputut is the same (and still wrong). 4. Under Firefox 2.0 (2.0.0.1) (on Windows), I successfully worked around the problem using about:config and manually editing all the printer page_size settings by hand. - This worked. 5. Under Firefox 3.6 (3.6.12) (on Windows), the about:config workaround does *not* work - Firefox ignores any changes I make to the page_size_* settings, and in fact changes them back whenever I print to that printer. 6. Under Firefox 5 (5.0) (on Windows), the print_paper_* settings no longer exist in about:config. - I have tried using native print setup window, and the values are always ignored. I have a generated HTML page (timesheet report) that fits almost exactly on 2 A4 pages, but Firefox *always* renders it using Letter size, causing the bottom of the first page to be printed at the top of the second page; the content of the second page to start half-way down the second page; and the bottom of the second page to be truncated and not printed at all. 7. Google Chrome can print the same report perfectly. - Sadly, this is my current workaround. 8. Interestingly - if I render the report in Firefox using IETab, then the pages print correctly as well. --When I do this, the Print Preview window is different (it comes from IE); the printer preferences dialog is the same native dialog, but it shows the (correct) value of A4 by default, rather than Letter as it does when that same dialog is called up by Firefox. This problem has been around, in some form, since Firefox 0.9.something, and it still exists. The indications are that there is no simple fix or patch that will correct it. Perhaps the solution would be to take an existing open-source printing sub-system that works, and integrate it into both Firefox and Thunderbird? The printing system from OpenOffice seems to work correctly on all platforms... Cheers! Nik -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
(In reply to comment #71) Best file a separate bug, thanks Nik. This bug is about the Linux implementation while you are seeing a problem on MS Windows. Fixing this bug will not fix your issue. Ah, ok. I was trying to avoid bug duplication... Cheers! Nik -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Best file a separate bug, thanks Nik. This bug is about the Linux implementation while you are seeing a problem on MS Windows. Fixing this bug will not fix your issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/10910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Indie on comment #132 seems to have an easy solution for this bug. This works for me on Natty 11.04. Perhaps a simlink should be added in the install until the Mozilla code is sorted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Still occurs in Ubuntu 11.04 with firefox 4.0.1. I just did a fresh install of ubuntu 11.04, install my printer, set it to print in A4 paper, but it still prints on Letter format... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Maybe people in the US don't see this as a serious issue, but in the rest of the world it is, even though most of Ubuntu now has good localisation at install time, Firefox is completely out the loop. There are more people in the world for whom A4 is the default size. It's the ISO standard. And regardless of that, FF should be picking up defaults from the system -or asking the printers themselves- rather than assuming US letter. The fact that this issue has been going on for so long is just painful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I've just come across this bug myself and can't believe it's been going on years. Even though my system is setup to use en_GB and /etc/papersize contains 'a4' firefox still defaults to the non-standard 'letter' paper size. I found that by sym-linking /etc/paper to /etc/papersize firefox will then use the correct A4 size when printing. Is the firefox binary configured to look at the wrong file to determine the default paper size? Can't this be fixed once and for all in the firefox source so it instead references /etc/papersize or have the sym-link automatically created. As for someone that doesn't want these US settings, having to manually apply these fixes for the quirks is quite irritating not to mention the time wasted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
I prefer changing /etc/default/locale from en_US to en_GB in which changes the printing defaults from letter to A4: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 Debian/Ubuntu: sudo /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
JunyaKeller: That may work fine for you, but I am an American living in England. I have US keyboard layout, spell color without a 'u', and otherwise prefer an en_US locale. The only thing that changes for me is the default paper geometry in printers I use. If LC_PAPER were honored more widely as an override, I think that would be the correct solution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I found solution to my problem by doing this: 1-assured that in /etc/papersize there is written only a4. 2-open /usr/share/ghostscript/8.71/lib/ghostpdf.ppd and erase every line with inside the word letter. 3-open /etc/cups/ppd/KM-1635.ppd (instead of KM-1635 use the name of the printer that doesn't print to a4) and delete the line where there's write letter/letter like this *PageSize Letter/Letter: %% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PageSize=Letter *FoomaticRIPOptionSetting PageSize=Letter: -p1 *PageRegion Letter/Letter: %% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PageSize=Letter *ImageableArea Letter/Letter: 12.00 12.00 600.00 780.00 *PaperDimension Letter/Letter: 612 792 4)changed in firefox at about:config every line where there's letter on na_letter or letter to a4 and the dimension of that format forced to height 297 and width 210. when i restart firefox the values of print.postscript.paper_size was returned to letter for example but the printer print correctly to a4. Sorry for my english... Bye -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
i add to /etc/environment a line, too LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8 i'm not sure but i think this don't do nothig Bye -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
The evil print.postscript.paper_size letter default comes from bug 125078 and I don't see any means provided for changing the default. initPrintSettingsFromPrinter was meant to get setting from the printer and the xprint backend implementation appropriately asked the system for available paper sizes. It seems print.postscript.paper_size pref was just a space filler for lack of a postscript implementation. savePrintSettingsToPrefs and printer-specific prefs in initPrintSettingsFromPrefs weren't added until bug 128142 and they now seem the appropriate place for managing preferences. So I agree that it is better to leave the paper settings at their default than to pull in this arbitrary default. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Comment on attachment 500694 don't use PS prefs in gtk However, the way that this patch avoids the arbitrary default adds to the existing confusion. It works because the pref lookup no longer matches the pref setting. It would be better to remove the pref and the lookup code. http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/a66254dfa588/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js#l3065 One of the (many) strange things about the print setup code, is that the list of (basic standard) paper sizes is only added to print.tmp.printerfeatures.paper.* if a paper_size pref is found, and that will rarely be anything but print.postscript.paper_size. http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/7a3469118cf3/widget/src/gtk2/nsDeviceContextSpecG.cpp#l898 (The initial implementation was added in bug 132563.) print.tmp.printerfeatures.paper.* is only used from toolkit/components/printing/content/printjoboptions.js, as a set of available paper sizes. AFAICS however, that is only used if nsPrintingPromptService::ShowPrintDialog cannot find nsIPrintDialogService. Now that the GTK port provides a nsIPrintDialogService, there is no need to set up print.tmp.printerfeatures.paper.* So it safe to remove the whole paper_size block http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/7a3469118cf3/widget/src/gtk2/nsDeviceContextSpecG.cpp#l883 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Hello. I'am italian. I have the same problem.. System default paper=A4. All other program work fine. I want to print in firefox 3.6.13, but the default in firefox is always letter. I set to A4 but firefox always forget that. It always start with letter size. Please help me. Thanks in advance -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Created attachment 500694 don't use PS prefs in gtk The attached patch fixes this problem for me. In widget/src/xpwidgets/nsPrintOptionsImpl.cpp the page size is read and written to the prefs of the form: print.printer_NAME.print_paper_name print.printer_NAME.print_paper_size_width print.printer_NAME.print_paper_size_height print.printer_NAME.print_paper_size_type print.printer_NAME.print_paper_size_unit where NAME is the printer name. In widget/src/gtk2/nsDeviceContextSpecG.cpp the page size is read but not written from the following prefs: print.postscript.printer_NAME.paper_size print.printer_NAME.paper_size print.postscript.paper_size print.paper_size The problem is the prefs read in nsDeviceContextSpecG.cpp are not the same as the prefs written in nsPrintOptionsImpl.cpp. If these prefs do not exist there is no problem as the prefs read in nsPrintOptionsImpl.cpp are used. However I have found that in a newly created profile the pref print.postscript.paper_size = letter always exists. This will always be read and override the saved paper size. As it is not written, the letter default will not go away. The attached patch changes the module name used when reading prefs in nsDeviceContextSpecG.cpp from postscript to null so the print.postscript.paper_size pref is never read. I am assuming the postscript module name is leftover from before gtkprint was used. With the patch applied and using a newly created profile the default paper size will be the gtk_paper_size_get_default() paper size which is based on the current locale. After printing for the first time the selected page size is correctly saved and restored the next time the print dialog is opened. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910]
Adrian : It seems really great. I hope that it could be commited into trunk for both Thunderbird Firefox. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 Title: Default page size for printing is letter -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
** Changed in: firefox Importance: Unknown = Medium -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
While the paper size is correctly set for my physical printer, the default paper size for the pdf printer, which doesn't show up in ubuntu's printer system control panel, is set to letter, therewith ignoring /etc/papersize which is set to a4. And there seems to be no way to change the default values for the internal pdf printer via the gui, doesn't it? (Ubuntu 10.04, firefox 3.6.8). -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Dave Martin, it's much worse than that. In not-uncommon printer configuration, sending a US-letter job to printer requires physically going to the printer and pressing buttons. Until that, the printer is in error state and the whole print queue is waiting. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
On 1 May 2010 07:32, Tero Karvinen karvinen+launch...@iki.fi wrote: Dave Martin, it's much worse than that. In not-uncommon printer configuration, sending a US-letter job to printer requires physically going to the printer and pressing buttons. Until that, the printer is in error state and the whole print queue is waiting. i've got a Konica-Minolta printer that gives paper jam - media size error when duplexing if the page size transmitted differs from the physical page size. thanks to a bug in the printer software, the only way out is to switch the printer off and on again. (shades of the IT crowd.) -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
This bug appears to be in the lucid release. My location set during installation of lucid is United Kingdom. $ cat /etc/papersize a4 $ apt-cache policy firefox firefox: Installed: 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release:10.04 Codename: lucid (The installed release is UNE, on armel imx51) When printing from firefox the Paper size field is set to letter, ignoring the system default in /etc/papersize, is greyed out and can't be changed. I'm printing to an HP LaserJet family printer using the JetDirecy CUPS backend --- because the printer has no letter paper in it, attempting to print from firefox causes the printer to stall while it waits for someone to load some letter paper. If I quit Firefox and prune out all the print.* properties from prefs.js, then set print.postscript.paper_size to a4, then I can print successfully: in the print dialog, the paper size is now A4, but it's still greyed out and unconfigurable. When the job is sent to the printer, the printer chooses the correct tray and the output appears properly scaled. However, I get some weird diagnostics on the console in this case: (firefox-bin:2054): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown paper size A4 (firefox-bin:2054): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown paper size A4 If there's no easier workaround, a normal user isn't going to figure it out... -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Fabián Rodríguez wrote on 2007-01-17:#14 Upstream is considered an enhancement, and open since 2002. Wow, 8 years. Do upstream still take this view? Any chance we can raise their priority on this? Unless I've misunderstood something, it looks like users in much of Europe and other parts of the world who have certain not-uncommon printer configurations won't be able to print from firefox unless they hack the config... or buy special for the purpose. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Oops, that should be ... or buy special ^paper^ for the purpose -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Hi This does appear to fix the problem on my system. The default printer settings were already set correctly on my computer and the fault was still present so the problem may be localised to the print_paper settings. Regards Richard bigge wrote: If you have problem to get A4 as default paper size instead of US Letter: 1) Close firefox! 2) Edit the pref file in your profile (my profile is named tnju3mjg.default) Eg. gedit /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/tnju3mjg.default/prefs.js Search for user_pref(print.print_paper_ Change na_letter to iso_a4 and the height and width as this: user_pref(print.print_paper_height, 297,00); user_pref(print.print_paper_name, iso_a4); user_pref(print.print_paper_size, 3); user_pref(print.print_paper_size_type, 1); user_pref(print.print_paper_size_unit, 1); user_pref(print.print_paper_width, 210,00); further down, for your default printer (my printer is Arbetsrum101): user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_height, 297,00); user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_name, iso_a4); user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_size_type, 1); user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_size_unit, 1); user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_width, 210,00); I did the same for all my printers 3) Save the file This solved my problem. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. -- Richard de Rivaz MDR Interfaces Ltd Network Security, Email, Web Services, LiveSign® Digital Signage and Computer Control Specialists Tel: +44(0)1825 790294 Fax: +44(0)1825 790119 Reg in England No. 1577056 Directors: R de Rivaz Z de Rivaz Reg Address: Little Bridge House, Danehill, Sussex RH17 7JD http://www.mdr.co.uk -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
If you have problem to get A4 as default paper size instead of US Letter: 1) Close firefox! 2) Edit the pref file in your profile (my profile is named tnju3mjg.default) Eg. gedit /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/tnju3mjg.default/prefs.js Search for user_pref(print.print_paper_ Change na_letter to iso_a4 and the height and width as this: user_pref(print.print_paper_height, 297,00); user_pref(print.print_paper_name, iso_a4); user_pref(print.print_paper_size, 3); user_pref(print.print_paper_size_type, 1); user_pref(print.print_paper_size_unit, 1); user_pref(print.print_paper_width, 210,00); further down, for your default printer (my printer is Arbetsrum101): user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_height, 297,00); user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_name, iso_a4); user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_size_type, 1); user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_size_unit, 1); user_pref(print.printer_Arbetsrum101.print_paper_width, 210,00); I did the same for all my printers 3) Save the file This solved my problem. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
@ebrjvd I think that this problem isn't related to #494952 because my /etc/papersize report A4 but firefox still set default paper size to US Letter :( @all vote the bug also on upstream bugzilla site: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147419 At the moment there are 33 votes. More votes, more visibility. It's time to fix this bug... it's alive and kicking from 2002... -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
LC_PAPER or /etc/papersize seems to depend on language, rather than location. When I install Ubuntu with English language and Belgium as location, I get Letter as default in /etc/papersize, whereas it should be A4 in Europe, independent of the selected language. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
When I select Dutch language, /etc/papersize is set to A4. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
erbjvd: your comments seem unrelated to the specifics of this bug. If you consider it a problem that /etc/papersize is not what you expect, please submit a separate bug report. Thanks. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Is this bug related to Bug #494952 ? or does Firefox have its own papersize setting? -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Closed Firefox-3.0 since it has reached EOL and is no longer receiving updates. Please confirm if this still happens in latest stable version of Firefox-3.5 in our repos. If so please reopen bug as triaged ** Package changed: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) = firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Incomplete -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I stand corrected as of yesterdays meeting notes from upstream they have decided to release 3.0.18 ** Package changed: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) = firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Triaged ** Also affects: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
The problem could be deeper than forgetting the settings. This may be a clue. Even when the setting is changed to A4, it prints on A4 paper, but the format is still letter. (Is this another bug, or part of this bug?) Look closely and you will see that Firefox doesn't print to the bottom of A4 paper. It looks like it simply prints letter layout on A4 paper. Is it possible that some coder years ago thought the whole world was letter and hard-coded it deep in a line somewhere, such that all subsequent attempts to do otherwise are defeated? (BTW, there are only three countries in the world still sticking to the old imperial units, Myanmar (Burma), Liberia and one other country between Mexico and Canada. The rest are already metric or changing.) -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
No more enhancements will be made to Firefox 2. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I saw something similar happening. After one of the FF-Updates I had 'A4' as the default, but sometimes I printed it was again 'US letter'. I didn't related this to the pop-ups, but i think it was on a page with pop-up. I'm curious if this changed in Jaunty. We'll see ... -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
I am experiencing this problem when opening a new window on FF 3.0.9 Ubuntu 8.10. The page setup of the main window is correctly set to 'A4' but a new window opens configured for 'US letter'. Where is the new window obtaining this incorrect property? -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
the problem (as I experience it, years from its first report), is that I set Paper size in Firefox Page Settings and this setting is lost every time Firefox is updated (as far as I can tell). I think it should retain the settings made by the user after each update. Those are the settings the user has made. That is what the user wants. How hard can that be? The suggestions about setting it based on the locale are poor ones, because the printer page size might not be determined by locale. (For instance, it is not unusual these days in large companies in the United States to have A4 printers set up.) An upgrade and especially a plain update should not change user settings, unless those conflict in some deep way with something in the upgrade or update, and I'd take some convincing that could ever be the case here. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
** Changed in: firefox Status: Confirmed = In Progress -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
This is still an issue in Jaunty! WTF, how hard can it be to respect the systems printing settings? This drives me crazy.. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
Alexander what does this have to do with ubufox? -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
ThomasNovin, Please feel free to offer a patch to upstream devs if you think its that easy to fix. I can tell you now its not as simple as you might think. Firefox code is massive so it may be a while. They also need someone to find time to do it. We wont fix this on Ubuntu's end until upstream fixes it. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
@John Vivirito: I added Ubufox at comment #28 asking for comment on the suggestion that perhaps this could be fixed in Ubufox, as initially outlined in my comment #27. I haven't received any reply, so I'm asking again. Thanks for noticing, though. I'll be the first to admit that fiixing it in Ubufox smacks of a workaround, but then upstream has a much more varied collection of deployment scenarios to cater to, whereas Ubuntu 9.04 and up is a reasonably well-defined and standard platform to code against; and so the fix could be a lot simpler than what upstream will ultimately need to come up with. In particular, you can handle just the Linux subset of possible scenarios, and count on basic locale support etc to be properly set up. My somewhat brittle proposal would be for the postinst script to hack the default value in the .js file based on information in /etc/papersize; (I wish I would not be saying this, but) with security upgrades coming down the pipe with some reliability, this script would realistically run every couple of months, at least. Yes, this is ugly, but it could fix the easy 80%. -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter
** Also affects: ubufox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Default page size for printing is letter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
