1857595 - Firefox prints entirely blank first page for this one particular web page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1852515

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Kamens]

1. Go to https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2023/10/06/live-chat-carolyn-hax/
2. Type ctrl-P.
3. Observe how the first page in the print preview has no content.
4. It'll be that way when you print it too.

Not to rub it in or anything ;-), but Chrome does not have this problem with this page.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Thanks for the report. This is essentially a version of bug 1852515.

• The article content is essentially all in a grid, and in particular, it's all in a single row of a grid.
• There's a small element at the top of the document, before that grid, which occupies some space on the first page (though you can't see it because it's empty when printed, at least for me).
• We unfortunately don't support "proper" fragmentation of grid rows, so when we find out that we can't put the whole (extremely-tall) grid row on page 1, we push it to page 2 in the hopes that it'll fit better in the larger amount of space that we'll have there (since we didn't have all of page 1 available to us, given the small element at the top of page 1 that was occupying part of that page)

Bug 1857658 has some thoughts about how we might improve things here in the future.