Printing in Firefox - please test firefox 1.0.7-0ubuntu18

[Lukas Sabota]

Ian Jackson wrote:

>I have made some changes to printing in the latest firefox upload for
>Breezy, and there is a nonzero risk that this will have some adverse
>effect.  I would like to know soon whether to back them out.
>
>So, I would like you to make a fresh default profile and check that
>printing still works with your printer.  (In order to get all of the
>changes, you have to start with a fresh profile to pick up a changed
>default print command.)
>
>In particular, things to watch out for:
>
> * Is the output quality any better or worse than it was before ?
>   I'm not expecting any change with non-PostScript-cabable
>   printers, and I hope that PostScript-cabable printers will not see
>   a significant change.
>
> * Has the printing speed (job processing time, or time to transfer
>   the data to the printer) become slower to an unacceptable extent ?
>   This is also unlikely unless you have a PostScript-cabable printer.
>
> * If you previously got that strange page saying your printer was too
>   old a PostScript version and please would you do some complicated
>   rune with gs: does now it work properly instead ?  (Bugzilla 10293.)
>
> * If you have several printers, does the printer selection and so
>   forth work properly ?
>
> * If you are using printers _not_ configured via CUPS (ie, they're
>   configured in a way that causes them not to show up in System /
>   Administration / Printing), do they still work in Firefox (if
>   indeed they ever did) ?
>
>Note again that you must use a fresh profile to pick up the new
>default printing command, or your test will not pick up all of the
>changes.  If you don't want to mess about with profiles, an
>alternative is to manually set the print command in File / Print ... /
>(Your printer) / Properties ... / Print Command:, to
>   lpr -o PreFilter=Level1 ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+"-P$MOZ_PRINTER_NAME"}
>(cut and paste it to be sure the punctuation is right).
>
>If you do a test please email me at the address above, even if
>everything was working before and nothing has changed.
>
>If the situation has got worse in some way please provide as much
>information as possible including the URL(s) of the test page(s) and
>the exact model of your printer and how you configured it.
>
>Thanks,
>Ian.
>
>  
>
Printing works fine here.

Lukas