436397 - On Mac OS X 10.4 in printing, cannot turn on the headers/footers or turn off the background

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Arthur Snoke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

For Mac OS X 10.4, in firefox there is no way to print page headers and footers or turn off the background.  In OS 10.5, one can change these settins by a link from the Print menu, and I thought I could rember doing it with earlier versions of Firefix.  There is no firefox option in the print screen in 10.4Current version: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14.

On the other hand, Tbird does have those options in the tbird pull-down within the print dialog box.  It looks like it has to be set every time, and I wonder if someone got tbird and firefox mixed up.  tbird has the same version number as Firefox.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check page ssetup (which is where the option is on Windows).  Not there.
2.Go to print a page.
3. Look for a firefox option.  Not there.
4.  Print page.  Background prints, no headers or footers.
Actual Results:  
Background prints, no headers or footers.


Repeating.  The bug is only in 10.4 and Thunderbird seems to have the firefox kind of options.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

There should be a "Firefox" option in the third dropdown, the one that defaults to "Copies & Pages".  Once you select that option, you should see controls for changing backgrounds, headers, and footers.  Is that option missing for you?

Comment 2

[Arthur Snoke]

I feel like I am going crazy.  Yesterday I swear it was not there.  Today it is.

I should have made a screenshot of my summary page, but I did not.

Thanks.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

If you discover steps that reproduce the bug reliably, please tell us :)

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I feel like I am going crazy.  Yesterday I swear it was not there.  Today it
> is.
> 
Do you view lots of Flash content ? There is an old (Camino) bug somewhere: after viewing Flash content, the Firefox/Camino option in the print dialogue would vanish. Restarting the browser will 'fix' this.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

The bug to which philippe is referring:

Bug 303548: Viewing page with SWF/Flash or PDF disables Print Options/PrintPDE.plugin