306667 - Providing global Print preferences under the Preferences dialog

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Hari Kumar G]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050830 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050830 Firefox/1.6a1

Requirement: An option for setting print/page setup preferences speicifically
for the firefox browser.

At present there is no option to set the printing / page setup preferences for
Firefox in a global manner i.e. a setting particularly for printing documents
from the browser.  Anyway, firefox remembers the last used print/page settings.

This would be useful if -  

The user prefers to print generally to one printer - say a dot matrix - and
wants to print web pages to a duplex enabled Laserjet printer on the network. 
Therefore, some method to set these options specifically for the browser is needed.

Further, the user can opt to change these from the Print or Page Setup dialogs
under File Menu.   These settings will be remembered for the session only and
would not alter the global setting under Preferences > Print. 

The implementation could be quite simple as providing two buttons to call the
present Page Setup, Printer option box and Properties dialog for the specific
printer.  These could be 'remembered' by Firefox per user/machine (?)

Further the Print Icon of Navigation bar (I strongly support for adding it to
the default set of icons - Why such a basic thing is not there?)  could use the
default settings from the preferences and print to the specific printer opted
therein (this would avoid user interference and save time).  If the user changes
 the setting within the session, this will be used for further printing by
clicking the icon.  

Please consider.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I don't think this is generally useful enough to implement for everyone, it seems to serve niche-y cases for the most part.