Firefox/Printing Refresh

Summary

This page tracks ongoing work to update the printing user experience in Firefox Desktop.

Managing Bug Lists

• Add [print2020_v{XX}] to add a bug to the list of printing bugs targeted at a specific Firefox version (e.g. [print2020_v80] for version 80)

Charts

• View burndown chart for all work since project inception.

Current and Upcoming Work By Release

Firefox 84 (Nightly)

Start: 2020-10-19; freeze: 2020-11-12; merge to beta: 2020-11-16; release: 2020-12-15

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ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1669225	The printer select dropdown shouldn't be disabled when we have invalid values	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	--
1670222	The "Print using system dialog..." link should not wait for the print preview to be ready	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	--
1657994	Tab modal print UI a11y review		RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1674135	Printing via the “Print using the system dialog” option is not working for about pages	Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1669708	The “Cancel” button is also locked while the print preview is still rendering	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S4
1666734	Add "Print on both sides" checkbox option to new print UI (duplex printing)	Erik Nordin [:nordzilla]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	--
1662331	Use sheetCount rather than calculated the number of rendered pages	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1467576	Printing an A4 document on Letter doesn't scale properly		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P3	normal
1675455	Print preview - TAB navigation on More Settings section throws Uncaught TypeError: can't access property "includes", e.target.step is undefined		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	--	--
1666945	Intermittent toolkit/components/printing/tests/browser_window_print.js | Uncaught exception - undefined - timed out after 50 tries. | Found an unexpected tab at the end of test run: https://*/file_window_print.html -		RESOLVED	INCOMPLETE	P5	normal

10 Total; 0 Open (0%); 5 Resolved (50%); 5 Verified (50%);

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ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1663652	Explore combining the various printer capability methods on nsIPrinter into one method.	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1669854	Add an nsIPrintSettings API that frontend code (print.js) can use to provide a set of non-contiguous print ranges	Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1672864	Printing selected text can cause "Print preview failed" error and crashes	Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	--
1675376	Tab is unresponsive if dialog is closed while initial preview is rendering	Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1676518	Add monochrome print support for Canon iX6800 series printers	Erik Nordin [:nordzilla]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1640197	Investigate implementation of fallback "slicing" fragmentation using display list	Miko Mynttinen	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1675031	Crash in [@ libsystem_kernel.dylib@0x1f016]		RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1631452	Support a 'pages per sheet' option in print preview	Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	--
1671707	Calls to nsIPrinter.createDefaultSettings() are incorrect in the frontend code	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	S3
1679156	“Current page” radio button is enabled on the system dialog for every webpage	Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]	VERIFIED	FIXED	--	--
1671822	New Print Preview dialog hangs occasionally		RESOLVED	INVALID	P3	S2
1673266	Unable to save to PDF using new print UI		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P2	S2
1666935	Firefox fails to save most-recently-used printer (always chooses Microsoft Print to PDF as default)		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	--	S3

13 Total; 0 Open (0%); 10 Resolved (76.92%); 3 Verified (23.08%);

Firefox 85 (Next)

Start: 2020-10-19; freeze: 2020-12-10; merge to beta: 2020-12-14; release: 2021-01-26

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ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
499640	Allow users to print non-contiguous page ranges (using commas and dashes)	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	normal
1670122	Implement a "Print selection only" checkbox in the new print preview UI	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	normal
1674106	Print modal turns inaccessible when toggling between paper size using static custom values	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1680156	Enable pages per sheet by default	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1654684	Implement a paginator for the print preview	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (PTO until 2026-01-05) (he/him)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1683658	Screen readers doesn’t read the print preview's “Pages per sheet” label	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (PTO until 2026-01-05) (he/him)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S3
1676199	Print preview for pdfs refreshes when toggling options that should not have a direct effect inside the preview	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S4
1669725	Margins settings have no effect in pdfs	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S4
1673713	Implement a pages per sheet selection	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S4
1676388	Changing a destination that was just used to the actual printer triggers a delay in Print/Save button update	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1679133	The print preview remains open after closing the printing progress prompt during the “Preparing” state and the print progress prompt is no longer displayed for that browser session	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S3
1674772	Please indicate unit of Margin.	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (PTO until 2026-01-05) (he/him)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S4
1675636	Change cancel button text to close after print starts	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (PTO until 2026-01-05) (he/him)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1675483	Print preview - number for sheets of paper flickers on page changes	Emma Malysz	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	S4
1678358	Several print preview options can be “force enabled” (while they should be disabled) through the Margins section		VERIFIED	FIXED	P3	S4
1673634	Custom margins don't account for page orientation	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	--	--
1681051	Pages per sheet and the print preview are not updating to reflect the “all” page range after interacting with the scale values	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	--	--
1682128	The checkboxes on the new print UI do not match the checkboxes on e.g. about:preferences	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	--	--
1679143	Print selection is active but displays a blank page for wikipedia banner element		RESOLVED	INVALID	--	--
1679154	Print button inside Google Docs doesn’t open the print modal		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	--	--
1679386	Print Preview locks out if going through some "Paper size" options while custom margins are set		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	--	--
1678368	Sheets of paper are not updated on scale/ paper size change (only for bigger values) when custom option is on display		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	--	--
1664087	Intermittent TV tier 2 toolkit/components/printing/tests/browser_preview_in_container.js | leaked 2 window(s) until shutdown [url = about:blank]		RESOLVED	INCOMPLETE	P5	normal

23 Total; 0 Open (0%); 7 Resolved (30.43%); 16 Verified (69.57%);

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ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1682877	Crash in [@ mozilla::ipc::FatalError | mozilla::ipc::IPDLParamTraits<T>::Read] after cancelling file picker with print to PDF	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1670068	More graceful handling of unwriteable areas (at margins & between pages) in pages-per-sheet mode	Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	--
1665214	When "slicing" printing-improvement preserves overflow from a clipped line-box or grid row, shift down the line or grid row on the next page to leave space for the expected overflow	Mats Palmgren (inactive)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1662552	Print to file from Firefox flatpak works intermittently	Jan Horak [:jhorak]	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	S3
1679020	Portrait mode shows unintended behavior (missing image/ unexpected elements present)		RESOLVED	INVALID	P3	S3
1679398	Old modal lets the user select the page range over the actual number of pages to print		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	--	--
1668037	Stop reading/writing to prefs the PMPageFormat on a global basis (the print.macosx.pagesetup-2 pref)		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P1	S2
1676421	Excite's page background page is offset in Print Preview		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	--	--
1676870	Printing does not respect current scroll position of scrollable elements [was: Content displayed in print preview is not accurate for some pages]		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	--	S3
1677099	Only the first page text is displayed in Print preview on https://dbaron.org/css/test/sec100307 site		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	--	--
1676839	[macOS 11] PNG transparency example will not print successfully		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P1	S3
1678661	Minimum margins in Print preview will automatically switch to Custom if selected		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	--	S3
1667630	81.0 hangs for 1 minute when printing PDF		RESOLVED	INCOMPLETE	P2	S2

13 Total; 0 Open (0%); 13 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Archived Work by Release

See the archives page for detailed information.