564147 - Unable to browse through other Tabs, While on Print-Preview page (and while printing too)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 110641

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[Mithun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

While printing a tutorial (http://www.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutorial.html) which has 362 pages, I couldnt browse through the other Tabs. Had to wait till all 362 pages are printed.

Attached Snapshots.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Few tabs.
2. Open a huge document in one tab.
3. Initiate "Print-Preview". While on the preview screen, cannot browse.
4. Initiate Print from Print-preview screen. Cannot browse the other tabs till printing/preparing-to-print completes.
Actual Results:  
Had to wait for few mins while the doc was prepared-to-print (buffered) and printed to browse other tabs

Expected Results:  
While on Print-Preview screen , user should be allowed to browse through other tabs.

Comment 1

[Mithun]

Attachment: ScreenShot before the document is printed.

Comment 2

[Mithun]

Attachment: ScreenShot While the document is printed.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, does this still happen with Firefox 4.0.1 or later in a fresh profile?
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

possibly would be fixed by bug 133787?

Comment 5

[Mithun]

The issue is still observed in Firefox 4.0.1 ! 
Probably the print feature could be enhanced to work separately without interrupting browsing.