475707 - print.print_(header/footer)(position) doesn't accept literal string on Mac OS X

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Setup, defect)

Description

[Sebastien Bacon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Version 2.0.0.19 (20081209)

I try to write my name on top left of printed mail.
I edit the print.print_headerleft so that it reads "Bacon Sebastien"

On Windows Vista it's OK (same built version oh TB).

On Mac OS X, nothing is printed in the corner.
I tried with another string, quoted string, double-quoted string, I even replaced text in the prefs.js, but nothing is written. I tried mixed &T&D or &T - &D : doesn't work as well. it seems like, on Mac OSX, only single values &U,&D,&T and &PT are accepted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. change the print.print_headerleft from "&T" to "this is a test"
2. print a mail
Actual Results:  
nothing is printed on the top left corner

Expected Results:  
"this is a test" should be printed

Comment 1

[Sebastien Bacon]

I just have the same problem with ThunderBird 3 Beta 1

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

based on http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/search?find=%2F&string=print_headerleft this looks like a Core bug.

Comment 4

[Matthew Middleton (:zzxc)]

Confirming based on tests done by a user on support.mozilla.com (chat u50m491072820).  (Headers and footers are ignored when changed to a non-default string)

Comment 5

[John Nielsen]

This issue persists with both Firefox 3.6.21 and 6.0.2 on Mac OSX. In addition to nothing being printed where a custom header/footer was defined, the config value is actually clobbered as soon as the print dialog is brought up. Not sure if this makes the fix any easier, but I would suggest looking first to see if it is the print dialog that is changing the config values as that may be the only issue.