586639 - "print" does NOT print what is visible in firefox browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129941

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas Stein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; FDM)
Build Identifier: 3.6.8 (resp. v3.x)

Many webpages (which are displayed correctly in Firefox browser) are printed
wrong (from menu file->print). Mostly whole text paragraphes are missing or frames are printed separately. These are not minor layout problems but huge bugs.

This problems are re-producable and occur when the print goes to either a pdf printer driver or to real paper printer. It is verified for various computers and Firefox installations. The print is correct in InternetExplorer. So it is a proof that the page source is correct resp. can be read correctly.

Even print preview shows already the error.

Sample pages:

http://activemq.apache.org/networks-of-brokers.html
or
http://www.welt.de/kultur/article8072805/Die-Schlacht-von-Waterloo-bleibt-immer-aktuell.html?print=true

I think this is a big bug which last for a long time und should be fixed.

Thomas

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See Details and sample URLs above
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Expected Results:  
print what is visible in browser (minor layout differences are acceptable but not missing text)

see above

Comment 1

[j.j.]

There were some printing bugs fixed.

You may want to test with a nightly built 
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

or Firefox 4.0b4 (not yet out)
http://www.mozilla.com/de/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

The apache.org page is a known bug.