348209 - Printing Frames: Store preferred Frames printing option

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Axel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

When printing a framed web page, FireFox defaults to "Print each frame separately" which supposedly in most cases is not the desired printing option. User should get the option to have "Like shown on screen" selected as default frames printing option (when printing through main menu, not a frame's context menu).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Show a frames based web page on FireFox
2. Select the "File - Print" menu item
3. See "Printing Frames" area

Actual Results:  
Each of the page's frames is printed on a separate page.

Expected Results:  
Composite print result containing all frame content merged according to HTML/CSS.

Comment 1

[Maggy]

I've reported this same bug years ago. There are several identical bug reports (search print AND frames). I use Windows XP SP2. When I preview a page that contains frames, it looks good on screen. When I click Print button on top of preview window, the print frames part of the dialog is greyed out.
When I close the preview and select Print from the menu, I do get the print frames dialog but it defaults to each frame on a seperate page.
The major problem is that in general pages with frames do not have a warning notice THIS PAGE CONTAINS FRAMES!
I print web pages less than once a week, less than once in two months I accidentally start printing a page with frames without setting the correct option in in the print frames dialog. This most likely happens on a web form that has a scroll down list for Country, with each country in a frame. My printer can spit out about 50 pages, each with a single country name printed on it before I'm able to flush the print job.
IMHO any half decent programmer should be able to fix this in less than an hour.
So I really do not understand why this bug is still "unconfirmed" just like all the duplicate reports and why this bug is still alive and kicking in every new version of Firefox.
A nice testcase:
go to http://www.boekwinkeltjes.nl/
click the middle menu item Rollende Deelnemers
click any of the bookshops that scroll by
print the next page with the default settings
preferrably use a fast laserprinter with a huge paper stock installed
try to end the print job before printing 50 almost white pages
If you succeed, I buy you a drink
If you remove this bug, I buy you a meal

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 3

[Josh Triplett]

This bug still exists in current Firefox.  Marking as NEW.