Mike DeMarco wrote:
I am running build 121 with firefox 3.5.1. Even thought the system can see
network printers and can print to them, firefox will not list any printers and
will only print to file??????
I have this problem too, on 2009.06 (svn 111b), using CUPS.
If you check evince (PDF reader) it will likely have the same problem.
What I have found out is that certain applications combined with GTK
have problems with the CUPS dialog box. It's not unique to Opensolaris
either, among the other links I found where this happening, on Linux I
found this post
(http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=675475&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a).
What I haven't found is the reason why this happens and a specific
solution. The only solutions I've come across to date were very
anecdotal, sometimes included advice such as "I rebuilt the machine and
now it works" or the forum post requesting help was left unanswered.
Thunderbird, doesn't seem to have such a problem, funnily enough.
The best information I've come across to date is that there might be a
missing library that Firefox uses for the CUPS printing dialog box, but
Thunderbird doesn't. That might account for why not everyone
experiences the problem.
If you open a Firefox tab, type in "about:config", and filter the
results by searching for the word "print" you'll see references there to
first network printer that you would normally expect to see in the CUPS
dialog box (in my case, that is a networked printer called act00).
So it can see the printer information from CUPS, it just doesn't display
a whole list of printers to choose from like it's supposed to.
Mind you in my situation, my CUPS server is situated on a Debian Linux
box and CUPS on Opensolaris is configured with a /etc/cups/client.conf
file pointing to it. While I don't think it has an affect, I haven't
ruled it out yet either.
Regards,
Stewart
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