1247609 - window.print() doesn't respond in Firefox for Android

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1414935

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[vinoth.r]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 9_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/1.2 Mobile/13C75 Safari/601.1.46
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open this url  http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_print on your Firefox in iPad or android tablet.
2. Click print this page button



Actual results:

It doesn't  open print dialogue but it does in desktop browsers, Safari for iPad and chrome for Android 


Expected results:

it should promot print dialogue to print page

Comment 1

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

reporter, Firefox for iOS is different code base, so could you file a new bug for Firefox for iOS?

Also, Firefox for Android doesn't have printing dialog service, so dialog isn't shown.

layout/printing/nsPrintEngine.cpp
nsresult:q
nsPrintEngine::DoCommonPrint(bool                    aIsPrintPreview,
                             nsIPrintSettings*       aPrintSettings,
                             nsIWebProgressListener* aWebProgressListener,
                             nsIDOMDocument*         aDoc)
...
        } else if (rv == NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) {
          // This means the Dialog service was there,
          // but they choose not to implement this dialog and
          // are looking for default behavior from the toolkit
          rv = NS_OK;

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The bug is that that FxAndroid doesn't support printing. Moving to their world for triage. Do file a separate bug for FxiOS.

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Needs to hook into the new printing code https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/java/org/mozilla/gecko/PrintHelper.java

Comment 5

[Kamil Chlebek]

This bug is still present in 80.1.3

Comment 6

[drsdk102]

see
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/77486

one can't download report

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Downloading and window.print() are two complete different issues.

Comment 8

[maksim]

Any updates on this? IIRC there was actually a 'print page' button in the menue in firefox android - don't know why this was removed. I would like to use Firefox for this feature and not fallback to other apps or browsers like Chrome, which supports calling androids print dialogue. It's required not just for printing on a printer but also to pdf to store a file or page.

Comment 9

[Hamish Willee]

I presume this is now fixed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1809922