195375 - When print()ing from a frame with height 0, an unprintable job occupies the queue

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197556

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Sandor Vroemisse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

What I've been trying to do is load a printer-friendly page in an invisible
frame (height 0) after the user clicks a print link. In the page there is a
javascript print() command, either in the body onload or somewhere near the
bottom of the page - it doesn't make a difference for the behaviour. 

What happens is a print dialog pops up and after clicking ok, the printing
dialog appears saying it is preparing the printing. It won't go away by itself
though. Clicking the x makes it go away, leaving a job in the printer queue that
just keeps sitting there. When I set the frame height to 1 or more, all works as
expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a frame with height 0
2. Load a page in the frame that has a print() command somewhere in the page
3. Load frameset
4. Click ok in the print dialog
5. Wait
6. Wait
7. Click x in the printing pop-up window

Actual Results:  
See details.

Expected Results:  
I'd have expected the page to be printed like it does if the frame height is > 0.

Comment 1

[Sandor Vroemisse]

Attachment: 3 small html files to verify the problem

Comment 2

[Sandor Vroemisse]

Oh, the printing progress pop-up doesn't always appear. The job that won't print
always does though.

Comment 3

[Alexander Opitz]

reporter: Does it work in newer builds?

Comment 4

[Sandor Vroemisse]

Nope, the problem is still there in win32-1.4rc1

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197556 ***