1531899 - Illegible covered text on some printed web pages, e.g. Quora.com

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P3)

Description

[HarryLParker]

Attachment: Firefox65.0.1_PrintBugDemo-Quora.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0.3 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox v.65.0.1 (or FirefoxNightly67.0a1) on MacBook Air (late 2010 edition) running MacOS High Sierra, 10.13.6 (the most recent version that can be installed on this machine).

2. Print (or Save as PDF) a Quora.com answer page such as
   https://www.quora.com/50-employees-35-are-part-time-and-15-are-full-time-What-percent-are-full-time

3. View the print or PDF file.

Actual results:

Right column on web page overwrites the text on pages 2 and onwards through to the end of the printout, obscuring the text that should be visible.

See attached file Firefox65.0.1_PrintBugDemo-Quora.pdf and QuoraTestFirefoxNightly67a1_2019-03-01.pdf.

Expected results:

Text on pages 2+ should not be obscured.

See attached files for the same web page printed by Chrome and Safari.

Comment 1

[HarryLParker]

Attachment: Bug demonstrated in FirefoxNightly67a1 (2019-03-01)

Comment 2

[HarryLParker]

Attachment: Example of good output generated by Chrome72.

Comment 3

[HarryLParker]

Attachment: Example of good output from Safari v.12.

Comment 4

[HarryLParker]

This bug was previously reported at
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25463

Some additional commentary will be found there.