655537 - print.print_margin_xxxx prefs should default to zero

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Setup, defect)

Description

[Richard A Milewski[:richard]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110507 Firefox/5.0a2
Build Identifier:               Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110507 Firefox/5.0a2

The current value of 0.5 for the prefs print.print_margin_bottom, print.print_margin_left, print.print_margin_right, and print.print_margin_top prevent users from being able to control printing using CSS margin settings.

End users should not be forced to open about:config to control print margins. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Of course we don't implement CSS page margins... once we do, we should consider removing these.

Comment 2

[Richard A Milewski[:richard]]

What's the rationale for preventing users from printing within 3/4 of an inch of the page now?  These margins serve no useful purpose.  The print drivers supply values for unprintable margins on a printer-by-printer basis.   The current print.print_margin_xxx values simply take control away from the user and the web page and web app developers.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> The print drivers supply values for unprintable margins on a printer-by-printer > basis.

If I recall correctly, this at least used to be buggy in some cases.  It's possible that's changed.

Comment 4

[Richard A Milewski[:richard]]

Right now, printing on some standard office supply forms is impossible without changing user prefs.   Do we really want non-technical users mucking about in about:config?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No; that's why this bug is still open.

Comment 6

[RNicoletto]

Marked NEW as per comment 5.