267285 - Print highlighted text (print selection) does not print everything when page is exceeded

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243842

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[volker.groeschel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041027 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041027 Firefox/1.0RC1

When I print the highlighted part of a page and the text exceeds a page on the
printer the printing is not complete.

When the text exceeds the print page, text is lost.

When the text is long enough more than one side is printed but there is missing
text between the printed sides.

By the way, I can confirm Bugzilla Bug 240625:
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240625

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. It happens all the time for news on http://www.f1total.com/news.php e.g. 
side http://www.f1total.com/news/04110107.shtml
2. Highlight the text of the middle column (from "Die Entstehung eines ..." to
"doch anhand eines Zeitplans kann man nichts erfinden."
3. Ctrl+P choose "Selection"

Actual Results:  
Only one side is printed with the first third of the text (last line is "einigen
Kursen zum Einsatz kam. Die Veränderungen am 067 werden")

Expected Results:  
Print the complete highlighted text. 

The problem is there for a long time (at least Phoenix 0.5 and in Mozilla as
well). IE 5.5 and IE 6.0 do not show this problem but I don't want to use them :-)

Comment 1

[Nagappan]

I'm able to reproduce in Linux also. If this is not a duplicate bug, this can be
bug can be confirmed.

Comment 2

[LT]

I'm having problems, too. This URL is currently printing out only the selection,
but stops after printing 1 page:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1561875,00.asp

Comment 3

[Egon Knapen]

Yep, I noticed it last time I wanted to print some selected part of a website.
This is really annoying...

Comment 4

[Jim Parrott]

I have had this happend most of the time when trying to print the selection
extending beyond one page.  The current printer configuration is set for Send
Directly to Printer.  I am testing this with other printer configurations.  This
is done with HP All-In-One Printer.

Comment 5

[volker.groeschel]

I can confirm this bug for
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Comment 6

[volker.groeschel]

This bug is still present:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

On my Linux machine with Xubuntu 6.10 it doesn't work neither.

Comment 7

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Still present in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Comment 8

[:Hb]

Still present in Seamonkey 2.0