[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter

[Bruce Kingsbury]

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.

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