I don't know about firefox+CUPS specifically, but I had a similar problem under gnumeric. I eventually discovered the unacceptably long delay opening the print dialog was because my CUPS setting had network browsing switched on. Each time, the application would refresh the printer list, which in a larger size work environment could be dozens if not hundreds of printers, with a corresponding response delay.
I "solved" it by simply switching off Browsing in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and explicitly setting up the printers I want to use. My comments there tell me I did that in January 2005. I'm not sure what the current state of CUPS is, since I now notice my "Browsing Off" command is commented out, so cups should have gone back to the default of "Browsing On". Maybe they changed the default or maybe they improved printer browsing, I don't know, but I haven't had recent problems. I'm still not seeing networked printers so it seems more likely they changed the CUPS default behaviour. I think this bug can probably be merged with #323780. Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
