270945 - hangs when printing to file; print preview skewed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[ahasenack]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

There are two issues with that page:
1. Crash if printing to file. Plain and simple.
2. Print preview is skewed to the right. Only the first or second pages are OK,
the others keep going to the right until the last page has a very narrow column
of text.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Print page to file. It crashes.
2. Print preview. It's skewed to the right.
3.

Actual Results:  
1. It crashed.
2. Print preview is wrong.

Expected Results:  
1. Shouldn't crash.
2. Print preview should not skew to the right.

Comment 1

[Vinay]

I am using Firefox 1.0. Printing to file a web-page with a java applet (the java
applet was displaying a bar-code) causes firefox to crash.
The print to file works fine in other cases.
Here's the console dump:
/usr/local/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 159:  3309 Segmentation fault     
"$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Comment 2

[Bastian Grupe]

(In reply to comment #0)

I'm getting the same behaviour for http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8565498/ 

It doesn't crash but it seems to refuse to do anything and doesn't respond.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050713
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I'm not seeing the crash in current trunk build.
Reporter, what is the talkback ID you got?
Also, could you test this again in current trunk build?
http://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 4

[ahasenack]

Assuming that particular webpage I used as a test case (the redhat one) has
stayed the same all these months, then the crash-when-printing-to-file-bug is
fixed. I just tried with mozilla 1.7.8.

Print preview isn't skewed to the right anymore, but there is a big gray box in
the first page over everything.

I'll now try with the msnbc page.

Comment 5

[ahasenack]

I was also able to print to file that msnbc page with mozilla 1.7.8. Print
preview also seems correct.

Comment 6

[hiyatoho]

I previously got this with Firefox 1.0.4 and today getting it with just released
1.0.5.  Only at msnbc.com site's pages, and not all pages.  Example is
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8565498/

It will just hang with printing box there until Firefox is closed out and will
happen again if Firefox restarted and try to print that URL again.  Has only
happened since msnbc.com made "some changes" to their site a few weeks ago.

Windows XP-SP2 Home just patched Tuesday.  AMD Athlon XP 3200+.  500mb RAM.

Comment 7

[timeless]

[e-mail]: hangs are not crashes and crashes are not hangs. this  bug
clearly indicated in comment 1 that there was a crash floating around.

i'm going to assume that the reporter did not actually have his browser crash
given the 1. 2. sequence in comment 0.

[e-mail]: please find/file a different bug for your crash, ideally
complete w/ a talkback incident id.

Comment 8

[ahasenack]

I'm the OP, and in my case it was a crash when *printing*. *Previewing* had a
different issue. I didn't try to print *after* previewing, however. FWIW, for me
both the crash and the print skew are fixed now.

Comment 9

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

resolving works for me, since the reporter of this bug wrote that this bug is now fixed now for him.

also works for me with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070613 Minefield/3.0a6pre ID:2007061304 [cairo]