490334 - Cups instances disappear in Print dialog

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Printing: Setup, defect)

Description

[Manfred Lebek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8

Since Firefox 3.x?(latest is 3.0.8) there are no cups instances in the printer dialog of firefox any longer. I use KDE 3.5.9.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.File->Print
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Actual Results:  
only printers appear, no cups instances

Expected Results:  
show a list of all printers & cups instances

KDE 3.5.9 & cups 1.3.9.

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Hi Christian,
does this problem still happen for you in a recent Firefox version, or can this be closed as obsolete nowadays?
If it still happens: Which Firefox version do you use, and which operating system and version?

Comment 2

[Manfred Lebek]

Just updated to FF 7.0.1 and the problem persists. I use linux x86_64 kernel 2.6.34.

Comment 3

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

This doesn't seem related to disability access. It's a very old bug. Nevertheless, taking a guess at a better component.

Comment 4

[Michael Weghorn]

Firefox uses Gtk's print dialog on Linux, which currently doesn't support CUPS printer instances. There's a bug report for that for Gtk, s. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/236 . I've submitted patches to implement support about 4 years ago, but it seems that nobody really cares about them...