Firefox

[Jean Blondeel]

I loaded Ubuntu Jammy and afterwards I cannot print mails with firefox. Do
load in pdf though. Save and then print.  So print functions works on all
applications except firefox. Re-install of Firefox doesn't help either.

Op vr 18 nov. 2022 om 19:48 schreef Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>:

> hi,
>
> Am Freitag, dem 18.11.2022 um 19:20 +0100 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via
> ubuntu-users:
> >
> > Just in case it should be a competition the "basic info about the
> > actual
> > issue" that you requested is "does printng from other apps, i.e. the
> > pdf
> > viewer work ?"
>
> i was trying to find out if cups in general is working and set up
> properly for which this one question was enough to move on later (i
> could as well have asked "can you print a test page from the settings
> app")
>
> you *opened* your post with:
>
> "this might be related to the transition from a regular DEB package to
> a containerized snap oddity."
>
> and then went on over several snap related issues/posts
>
> >  And while I offered several reasons, you offered only one
> > reason,
>
> i did not offer any reason, i was trying to collect some empirical data
>
> 1) does the printing system work at all
> 2) does printing from deb packaged apps work
> 3) does printing from other snap apps work
> 4) must be a firefox issue (snap-system related or not would have been
> determined by 3)
>
> > also base upon guessing. If you or I have good luck a guess is
> > correct, if you or I have bad luck no guess is correct. I wasn't
> > aware
> > that providing help is a competition and that snaps are tabu, while
> > issues with snaps are actually not that seldom.
>
> unlike in your opening sentence there was no guessing on my side,
> something is obviously wrong with the printing stack, to find out which
> layer has the breakage you walk from bottom to top like in 1-4 above
> ...
>
> ... and you closed your post with instructions how to remove the
> supported version of firefox to replace it with an outdated and
> unsupported non-snap version from a PPA that might go away every moment
> (which then will just leave the user silently without any security
> updates to the browser at all)
>
> ciao
>         oli
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