Open Bug 751421 Opened 12 years ago Updated 2 years ago

printing a web page causes firefox to go into a page generation loop

Categories

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Printing: Output
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: doctorz268, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

accessing the EEOC website http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm. 


Actual results:

the print spooler died after 2500 pages were submitted for printing.  the document is only 44 pages long.

Prints fine on IE.


Expected results:

printing 44 pages
On my 
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b13bfc70bc44
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1 ID:20120502030505

*Bullzip PDF Printer
  Print processing stopped by 77% and Browser hangs

*PDF Creater
  Print processing stopped by 82% and Browser hangs

*Microsoft XPS Document Writer
  an alert "An unknown error occurred while printing." and stop processing

Regression window(m-c)
Works:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5faaa652594f
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110915 Firefox/9.0a1 ID:20110915013748
Fails:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c6a405d01a1d
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110915 Firefox/9.0a1 ID:20110915064148
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=5faaa652594f&tochange=c6a405d01a1d


Regression window(m-i)
Works:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/7e132eee5650
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110914 Firefox/9.0a1 ID:20110914103830
Fails:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/c614dabf94e2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110914 Firefox/9.0a1 ID:20110914115129
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=7e132eee5650&tochange=c614dabf94e2

Suspected:
fec42fae34a7	Adrian Johnson — Bug 454532. cairo: Print as Unicode. r=jrmuizel

Maybe related to Bug 717178
Blocks: 454532
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Printing: Output
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: regression
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: untriaged → printing
Version: 12 Branch → Trunk
Works for me with hardware acceleration disabled. Looks like it is a dupe of bug 717178.
Depends on: 717178
Summary: printing a web page causes firefox to go into a page generation look → printing a web page causes firefox to go into a page generation loop
No longer depends on: 900934
Severity: normal → S3
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