304858 - Error: "Can't print while in print preview", but print preview is not open and has not been opened

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Karl Katzke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050721CentOS/1.0.6-1.4.1.centos4 Firefox/1.0.6

Linux in a Thin Client (diskless workstation) environment: After printing a
website from Firefox using file->print and hitting 'OK' (NOT accessing print
preview),  the page prints. Trying to print another page will result in the
error "Can't print while print preview open"
This error is frequently reproduceable, but not always.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click file->print while a website is loaded
2. Click OK (page prints)
3. Go to another webpage
4. Click file->print while a website is loaded


Actual Results:  
error will appear. 

Expected Results:  
printing window should appear. 

Standard theme, default user. 
Thin Client environment (LTSP on CentOS4.1), diskless workstation
Closing all instances of firefox for a particular user account will fix the problem.

Comment 1

[Karl Katzke]

Bug also exists on i386 branch. 

Comment 2

[Dale Amon]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Bug also exists on i386 branch. 
> 

I can confirm. I see it quite regularly when printing webpages to postscript. I have found no work around other than to kill firefox entirely and restart. 

I run Afterstep although I doubt that has anything to do with it.

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

No response from reporter re: comment 3 -->INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem with the latest release of Firefox 2, please reopen this bug. Thanks!