On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:

>    I thought everything was restored yesterday, but firefox does not show
> any
> printers, only 'print to file' when I want to print a page. None of the
> menus seems to have an item that lets me point firefox to the available
> printers. My web searches, 'how to print from firefox,' 'adding printers to
> firefox,' and similar do not show anything relevant.
>

Just to confirm, this is the 32-bit version of Firefox on the 32-bit
version of slackware?  There are known printer issues running a 32-bit
version of Firefox on 64-bit version of Linux.

Have you restarted firefox since restarting cups?  If Firefox's GTK backend
can't connect to CUPS, it'll either cause the printer dialogue to freeze
Firefox or return no results (just print to file, depending on the version
of either Firefox or GTK).

Try running Firefox from the command line, you might get useful output on
the console, similar to this blog post:
http://dullsharpness.com/2012/02/02/fix-firefox-empty-printer-list-on-debian-squeeze-64-bit/

Ensure dbus is running.
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