1404603 - REGRESSION: Firefox 55+ only prints html table borders on the first page of a multi-page table

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1394249

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[John & Nick]

Attachment: A very simplified version of the offending html code

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170928210252

Steps to reproduce:

Open a multi-page html table with many cells.




Actual results:

The first page previews and prints as expected BUT all other subsequent pages (with identical html code) do not have any cell border an any cell (horizontal or vertical). It used to work till firefox 54.0.1 but is broken since 55.0. Now the table is displayed fine but is previewed/printed wrong.

This machine generated test table contains many rows and columns. Each cell comes with its own number.

To simplify debugging, I attach the html code of the problematic table and two previews from firefox 56 as pdf files (portrait and landscape). To understand the bug, open the html and preview it or print it to file (pdf/ps). Every page except the first one, has just the cell number and not its borders. The orientation of the printed/previewed page is irrelevant.

User-Agent:  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build: 20170926190823



Expected results:

All pages should have cell borders.

Comment 1

[John & Nick]

Firefox 52.3.0 ESR is not affected by this flaw

Comment 2

[John & Nick]

Attachment: Exported pdf

Comment 3

[John & Nick]

Attachment: Exported pdf in Landscape mode

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I can confirm the issue on Firefox 56 on Windows7 but it works for me with Firefox57beta and Firefox 58 nightly.

Reporter: Can you please try a Firefox beta to confirm that it's also fixed for you ?
Download from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/57.0b4/ -> platform -> language ,extract in temp and run from there while the regular firefox is closed.

Comment 5

[John & Nick]

We considered using 57.0b4, but we decided not to, as we never use beta ffx. Anyway the regression is corrected with 57.0b4 on linux64.
Will you fix it on 56 or we must wait for the standard 57?

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Thank you for testing the Firefox beta and confirm that the bug is already fixed !

I could do the 1h work to find the exact patch that fixed this bug in the development version of Firefox and ask if the developer backport it to Firefox 56 but I doubt that release management would accept a bug fix for this printing bug. Only security and high visible bugs have a chance to get included in an update for a released Firefox Version.

I will mark this report worksforme because this works in the latest development versions and I would like to thank your for your excellent bug report.

Comment 8

[John & Nick]

This was a recent bug. The one that really gets on our nerves for quite some time is the following:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404745

Comment 9

[Ton [:Tonnes]]

My $0.02:

Although I agree this is a dupe of bug 1394249, the issue persists for me in all sizes for the 2nd and 3rd examples/attachments of this bug (in 57 and 58 Nightly on Windows), whereas other dupes and their examples/attachments seem to display fine for most sizes in print preview, at least for 100%. I could not check for real printouts though. Perhaps someone can doublecheck?

If this is due to a/the rounding issue mentioned in bug 1394249 too, perhaps focus on fixing that in order to prevent new bug reports? I’m sure users would like to see proper previews in all cases/sizes and on all OSes.

Additionally, what are the chances that fix will be uplifted to any 56.0.x release?