1037824 - Regression - loss of being able to "Print - Selection" using the Print button

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[the-edmeister]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140605174243

Steps to reproduce:

Click and highlight a selection of text.
Press the toolbar Print button starting with Firefox 29 and the Print Preview window opens.
Hit the Print button on the Preview toolbar - upper-left.
The "native print dialog" window opens and Selection is not available to use.


Actual results:

The highlighted selection is lost when passing thru the Print Preview window. There is no way to print a selection of text when using the Print toolbar button, where previously the Print button opened the "native print dialog" and Selection was available for printing a highlighted selection of the web page. 


Expected results:

The user should be able to print a selection of text with the Print toolbar button as was possible prior to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=868586

Comment 1

[John Hesling [:John99] (NeedInfo me)]

I confirm this. 
(Sorry Ed I never bothered trying to get edit privileges so can not change bug status myself)
I tested in Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)
I used both a Mozilla and a Ubuntu Canonical Build  (Fx32 & Fx31 respectively) 

Using New Menu Button -> Print Icon -> Print Button, agreed as #c0 above. 
No option to print selection, the button is greyed out.

(I realise this is not the only method of initiating printing. See also related support.mozilla contributors discussion thread https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/710442 )

I imagine the same issue will be seen in Windows 7. I will check that in a few hours time.

Comment 2

[John Hesling [:John99] (NeedInfo me)]

As expected, confirmed also seen in Windows 7 Fx32

Comment 3

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Not reproducible in 
Build ID 	20160303134406
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID 	20160314030215
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
Considering this I will mark this issue as Resolved-WORKSFORME. If anyone can still reproduce it, feel free to reopen the issue and provide more information.