1750575 - No accessible print dialogue in Firefox 97

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1712104

(Toolkit :: Printing, defect)

Description

[MarjaE]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0

Steps to reproduce:

Tested Firefox Nightly using Mozregression. Try to print page.

Actual results:

It opens in the new print modal, which is a migraine risk.

Regressed by bug 1702501.

Migraine risk discussed in bug 1692100.

Expected results:

I have set print.modal_enabled false, but this accessibility setting is removed in FF 97.

There should be an automatic way to convert print.modal_enabled false to whatever new accessibility setting now disables the print modal, and use the system print dialogue, if available, or allow an accessible alternative, if the system print dialogue is not available.

Comment 1

[MarjaE]

And confirmed migraine trigger... bug 1692100 was mistakenly marked a duplicate of bug 1723989, which was fixed, without resolving the other migraine triggers.

Comment 2

[MarjaE]

For me, one major remaining migraine trigger is that it's easy to accidentally scroll the modal, and having one element scroll in front of the others hurts, and reliably triggers my migraines and often nausea as well.

Your mileage may vary.

I'm not eager to search for other migraine triggers.

Comment 3

[MarjaE]

Sorry, print.tab_modal.enabled false, not print.modal_enabled false.

Comment 4

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

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

Comment 5

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

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 1702501

Comment 6

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

I'm currently working in bug 1712104 to add a preference that will allow the user to print directly using the system dialog. The intention is to uplift that to Firefox 97.