Closed Bug 1694532 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Printing dialog box should warn when the Windows "Print Spooler" service is disabled

Categories

(Toolkit :: Printing, defect, P3)

Firefox 86
defect

Tracking

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RESOLVED FIXED
Tracking Status
firefox-esr78 --- unaffected
firefox90 --- fixed
firefox91 --- fixed
firefox92 --- fixed

People

(Reporter: srpfremmer, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Disable the Windows "Print Spooler" service.
  2. Navigate to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/86.0/releasenotes/
  3. Enter Ctrl+P to open the printing dialog box

Actual results:

The dialog box hangs indefinitely on "Preparing Preview". A page refresh or the Esc key is required to exit the dialog.

Expected results:

I expected the dialog to inform the user that the Print Spooler service has been disabled. I also expected an 'x' button on the top right of the dialog box to close it.

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

Component: Untriaged → Printing
Product: Firefox → Toolkit

This seems to a surprisingly common complaint on reddit? https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/lqimww/firefox_860_see_all_new_features_updates_and_fixes/goief8h/

It's pretty easy to reproduce. I tried taking a profile, but couldn't actually see where it's getting hung up.

Blocks: 133787

Any idea what might be going on with the print spooler here, Bob?

Severity: -- → S3
Type: enhancement → defect
Flags: needinfo?(bobowencode)
Priority: -- → P3

Thanks for taking the time to report this.
Looks like it was fixed by changes in bug 1699343.

It now returns with just the Save to PDF destination.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Depends on: 1699343
Flags: needinfo?(bobowencode)
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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