Printing from Firefox broken after update.

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Sun Sep 11 06:53:45 UTC 2011


On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:36:05 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> 
> >
> > I am not sure exactly what your problem is; however, after the Firefox
> > update, printing now takes forever. I use to be able to click on print
> > and have a document print virtually immediately. Now, I click print and
> > have time to eat breakfast, take a shower and get dressed before the
> > frigging thing prints out. This is definitely NOT a printer problem
> > since the printer is connected via a network to a Windows machine.
> > Clicking on the same document in IE results in the document being
> > printed immediately. Somehow, somewhere, something got seriously
> > broken in Firefox.
> >
> 
> I do also get a print if I wait, but it's a one liner saying:
> 
> Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in setpagedevice
>                                                 Operand stack:
>                                                            true  --nostri

Do you get better results when printing to a file (PS) and
then sending it directly to the printer (via lpr)? Maybe
this problem is comparable to my Opera printing problem
(where I could identify Opera being the source of invalid
PS data).



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