405008 - integrate print preview and print dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 660486

(Core :: Print Preview, enhancement)

Description

[Ivan Ičin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112106 Minefield/3.0b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112106 Minefield/3.0b2pre

It would be much useful if dialogs for print and print preview are to be integrated.

* Cleaner interface - just one command Preview and Print
* Less errors in printing - people would always see how it looks on page
* Less clicking - if people want to see preview and then print, it means one less click

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Duping to bug 660486, more recent, more information.

Comment 4

[Ivan Ičin]

This bug should be marked as best practice of how to enrage people that send Mozilla ideas.

I am sorry, rating four years later idea when it is so horribly obvious (as Microsoft Office did the same) as supreme sounds like insult. Or maybe I should file newer bug with more recent date, so that you can mark that other bug as duplicate?

But the point is... you mark my effort as worthless... like something that anyone can do (and though it took 4 years for another similar bug to be filed)... it is the best way to turn people away from participating here.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Ivan, please read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html. BMO is staffed primarily by volunteers. We get over 100 bugs a day reported. Just because your bug was marked as a dupe is not an insult, the other bug is more broad than yours, and suggest integrating all the print related dialogs. And your effort was not marked as worthless, just a duplicate

Comment 6

[Ivan Ičin]

Well, I am long time Mozilla supporter, since 2003 I think. So I am familiar with background.

However, are you familiar with the rule that one should search for bug before submitting it? If there is such a bug, one should file under that bug, add more description if it is necessary.

Well, I appreciate your effort in bugzilla, but however do you find that my effort to bring idea which was absolutely novel at the time, and one of the front features of Microsoft Office 2010 much later, is something to respect?

Do you think it would be wise to say something like 'who cares', there is similar bug and I like it more? Though that other bug should not be even filed according to bugzilla rules at all?