307108 - print error after onload="window.print()" and any printer properties within the print dialog modified

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 272670

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Ilja Sekler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050811 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050905 Firefox/1.6a1

If a web page opens the print dialogue with onload="window.print()", clicking on
the "Properties..." button, changing any of the printer settings (f.e. the paper
size from letterSize to a4Size) and clicking on "Print" results in an error
message, the page won't be printed. This error message appears from now on on
every attempt to print a page if printer properties are opened and modified. The
only way to print is to leave printer properties as they are. In this case the
paper size defaults to Letter (despite
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118563 !?).

This behavior could be reproduced also with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050826 SeaMonkey/1.1a and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux
i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050315. Windows builds are not affected.

The workaround: restore your prefs.js from backup.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open
http://www.berlinonline.de/.bin/print.php/berliner-zeitung/politik/480211.html
2. click on "Properties..." within the print dialogue, change the paper size or
gaps, click "OK".
3. click on "Print".

Actual Results:  
An error message "There was a problem printing because the paper size you
specified is not supported by your printer" is displayed.

Expected Results:  
The page should be printed.

Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.12-1.1376_FC3.1

checkout start: Mo Sep 5 10:47:40 CEST 2005

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -pedantic -pthread -pipe
c++ 	gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2) 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
-Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth
-Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -pedantic
-fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -I/usr/X11R6/include

Configure arguments
--enable-application=browser --enable-official-branding --disable-accessibility
--disable-debug '--enable-optimize=-Os -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions
-gstabs+' --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft --disable-tests
--disable-freetype2

Comment 1

[Ilja Sekler]

Sorry not having written it just at the beginning: the 1.7 Branch is not
affected, but 1.8 and the Trunk are affected. Suggest changing the Version to
"1.8 Branch" or "Trunk".

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

I see what you describe if I change paper size to legal even using file->print.

but it sounds like you're seeing bug 272670

Comment 3

[Ilja Sekler]

Do you get this error message changing the paper size using file -> print ->
properties before the browser has *ever* opened a page containing
onload="window.print()" or only after the printer preferences in prefs.js has
been demolished by the bug? I saw it appearing only after that.

> but it sounds like you're seeing bug 272670

Yes, it is definitely a dupe of 272670. Thanks for finding the original.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 272670 ***