Firefox truncating web pages

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:12:47 -0500
Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Pierre Frenkiel
> <pierre.frenkiel at laposte.net> wrote:
> >
> > It happened some time ago that Firefox (FX3) truncated
> > a web page I tried to print. I first thought that it was
> > related to a bad html code, but now I discovered that this
> > happens with a lot of web pages, which all print
> > perfectly with Internet Explorer. A short google call
> > with "firefox truncating web pages" gaves me about 70000 hits, but
> > no real fix (I must confess I didn't read the 70000 entries)
> > I tried with FX2 and seamonkey with the same result: only 1 page
> > printed (idem with the print preview)
> >
> > Has anybody a workaround ?
> 
> Can you give us a specific example?  I know I print multiple page
> websites from time to time and haven't noticed an issue.  As a matter
> of fact, I know of one site that prints better with FF than with IE7
> on Windows.    I suspect it's a case of either poor standards support
> or just a lousy standard, but perhaps there's a work around.
> 
> Brian
> 

I don't have Internet Explorer, but I do know this page won't print as
displayed in Firefox:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#alternate


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