Open Bug 1964998 Opened 5 months ago Updated 5 months ago

The "Print headers and footers" option is useless in PDFs

Categories

(Toolkit :: Printing, defect, P3)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Printing
Platform:
Desktop
All
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox-esr115 --- affected
firefox-esr128 --- affected
firefox138 --- affected
firefox139 --- affected
firefox140 --- affected

People

(Reporter: danibodea, Unassigned)

Details

Note

  • The "Print headers and footers" checkbox does not add headers and footers to the print preview. The checkbox should probably be disabled when headers and footers do not fit in the print.

Found in

  • Beta v139.0b4

Affected versions

  • Beta v139.0b4
  • ESR v128.10.0esr

Tested platforms

  • Affected platforms: Windows 10, MacOS 11, Ubuntu 24 ARM
  • Unaffected platforms: none

Steps to reproduce

  1. Load https://ontheline.trincoll.edu/images/bookdown/sample-local-pdf.pdf
    or https://ontheline.trincoll.edu/images/bookdown/sample-local-pdf.pdf
    or https://pdfobject.com/pdf/sample.pdf
  2. Open print preview.
  3. Check/uncheck the "Print headers and footers" checkbox.

Expected result

  • The headers and footers are added to the print preview (and real print).

Actual result

  • The headers and footers are not displayed on the print preview.

Regression range

  • This is not a recent regression.
Has STR: --- → yes
status-firefox138: --- → affected
status-firefox139: --- → affected
status-firefox-esr115: --- → affected
status-firefox-esr128: --- → affected
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop
Blocks: 1965005
No longer blocks: 1965005

More of a toolkit issue if we just want to remove it, right?

Component: Print Preview → Printing
Product: Core → Toolkit
Severity: -- → S4
Priority: -- → P3
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