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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Frontend

Full Query

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%);

Platform

Full Query

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%);

Archived Work by Release

See the archives page for detailed information.