1692100 - New Firefox and Thunderbird print dialogue is migraine trigger

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1723989

(Toolkit :: Printing, defect)

Description

[MarjaE]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0

Steps to reproduce:

Was told about new print dialogue.

Tried about:config change to enable it.

Actual results:

Yet another migraine.

It opens a modal, covering part of the page.

If I click on the image and press Page Down, it has an extra flash with each page down.

If I try to scroll, because it only covers part of the page, there's a lot of extra sheering pain around it, between the image and the sidebar, and between the image and the page.

If I switch the printer settings, or any other settings, there's another very bright flash or series off flashes.

Expected results:

It'd help if therewasn't as much or as intense flashing, and if the dialogue used the whole window, and if the edge between scrolling and non-scrolling elements was as far from users' expected focus as possible.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Printing: Setup' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

Not sure about the dialog taking the whole page (that's more of an UI thing), but at least some of the flashes / animations could be preventing looking at prefers-reduced-motion.

Comment 3

[MarjaE]

That UI is a migraine trigger. Yes, I know having one part of the page scroll and others not scroll is standard UI these days, that doesn't make it at all accessible. I've previously reported similar bugs on about:preferences, about:addons, and about:reader.

Comment 4

[MarjaE]

Attachment: (Flash Warning) Screen Recording

Attached recording of the flash problem, at least.

Comment 6

[MarjaE]

Related: bug 1712104

Comment 7

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

This should be fixed as of bug 1723989