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`window.print()` does indeed trigger a tab-modal dialog which requires user interaction to proceed.  Note that it's not an "error dialog"; it's just the regular print dialog (unless you're talking about something different?)

The dialog shouldn't hang the whole browser, but I think it does pause JS execution in the current tab, until the user clicks through the dialog. (similar to `alert()` and `prompt()` I think).  Are you seeing this behave differently from those APIs, regarding whether/when the fuzzer is able to proceed?

(I confirmed that I can e.g. successfully close the tab with the "x" button after doing window.print(). I would imagine the fuzzer is able to to that, though I'm not sure precisely how it works / what it needs to do next after having invoked this API in order to proceed.)

Whatever the core issue is here, do you know if it's a longtime issue vs. if it started recently?

(In any case, emilio probably would probably be the best person to comment here, since he e.g. implemented `dom.window_print.fuzzing.block_while_printing` which I see in your prefs.js file and which might be related or in the neighborhood of whatever's needed/broken here.  Ticking ni=emilio to be sure this is on his radar.)
`window.print()` does indeed trigger a tab-modal dialog which requires user interaction to proceed.  Note that it's not an "error dialog"; it's just the regular print dialog (unless you're talking about something different?)

The dialog shouldn't hang the whole browser, but I think it does pause JS execution in the current tab, until the user clicks through the dialog. (similar to `alert()` and `prompt()` I think).  Are you seeing this behave differently from those APIs, regarding whether/when the fuzzer is able to proceed?

(I confirmed that I can e.g. successfully close the tab with the "x" button after doing window.print(). I would imagine the fuzzer is able to to that, though I'm not sure precisely how it works / what it needs to do next after having invoked this API in order to proceed.)

Whatever the core issue is here, do you know if it's a longtime issue vs. if it started recently?

(In any case, emilio probably would probably be the best person to comment here, since he e.g. implemented `dom.window_print.fuzzing.block_while_printing` (in bug 1698175) which I see in your prefs.js file and which might be related or in the neighborhood of whatever's needed/broken here.  Ticking ni=emilio to be sure this is on his radar.)

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