376218 - Print (Preview) on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice = hang

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331039

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[B. Switzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; Media Center PC 3.1)
Build Identifier: 

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice, hit print preview (or just print).

Hangs. Dialogue box:

Printing
   Title: Solstice - Wikipedia, the free encylopedia
Progress: Preparing...

... and that's all she wrote.

I've left it for the moment to see if it ever comes back. Thus, I can't be more specific on version I'm running.

(I actually only wanted the 1st page, with the table.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Zip.

Expected Results:  
A piece of paper to come out of the printer.

Printed a piece of paper.

[It's still so cool that I can kill it and it comes back with all the same tabs as when it left. Very, very, cool, people.]

Comment 1

[Arie Paap [:wildmyron]]

This is a known bug when printing divs that float and have overflow hidden. On Wikipedia it occurs when there are multiple thumbnail images with class thumb tright; in this case the Day view thumbnails in the "Geocentric view of the seasons" section.

Unfortunately I haven't got a clue which of Bug 331039, Bug 323652 or Bug 368515 to dupe this against.

You can put the following code in your userContent.css to still be able to print the page. Unfortunately it will also affect the screen layout. http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserContent.css

@-moz-document domain("wikipedia.org") {

/* unfloat cosecutive divs */
.thumb + .thumb {
  float: none !important;
  clear: left !important;
}

Comment 2

[John Vandenberg]

I can reproduce the hang at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solstice&oldid=119031784, and confirm that the userContent.css hack in comment 1 works around the problem.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3