Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 08:42:36PM +, David Brownlee wrote: > What is the current wisdom on printing from Firefox? > > It appears that from firefox-60 the ability to generale ps was > removed, so the lpd backend was also removed. It still works fine for me in firefox 70, b

Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 22:53, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 09:55:16PM +, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: > > Please, could you (privately?) send me the name of this feature, so I know > > what to search on? Or links to specs of a few models that implement the > > feature?

Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 09:55:16PM +, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: > Please, could you (privately?) send me the name of this feature, so I know > what to search on? Or links to specs of a few models that implement the > feature? Thank you!! On the specification page of the printer, you should

Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread Leonardo Taccari
Hello Chavdar, Chavdar Ivanov writes: > [...] > I haven't had the particular need to print from firefox on NetBSD > recently; after reading this I tried... > > The moment I hit the 'Print' menu item to get the dialog, my firefox > process goes in an endless loop, becoming completely

Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 29/12/2019 21:38, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: You know that many modern printers allow you to just drop a PDF via FTP directly? Just saying... Even printers in the 150EUR range. Joerg, I would go for something like this. Of course I wouldn't know if it's phoning home so I wouldn't send

Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 21:38, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 09:29:14PM +, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: > > When it comes to printing, then usually, and regardless of the OS, I print > > to PDF. The I copy that PDF file to a USB flash drive and print it at a > > local

Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
: > > On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 21:04, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > > > On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 20:43, David Brownlee wrote: > > > > > > What is the current wisdom on printing from Firefox? > > > > > > It appears that from firefox-60 the abilit

Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 29/12/2019 20:42, David Brownlee wrote: What are other people doing? TLDR: I rely on other people or small businesses who have configured printing to work properly. When it comes to printing, then usually, and regardless of the OS, I print to PDF. The I copy that PDF file to a USB

Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 21:04, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 20:43, David Brownlee wrote: > > > > What is the current wisdom on printing from Firefox? > > > > It appears that from firefox-60 the ability to generale ps was > > removed,

Re: Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 20:43, David Brownlee wrote: > > What is the current wisdom on printing from Firefox? > > It appears that from firefox-60 the ability to generale ps was > removed, so the lpd backend was also removed. > > There is a reference and a patch to

Current wisdom on printing from Firefox

2019-12-29 Thread David Brownlee
What is the current wisdom on printing from Firefox? It appears that from firefox-60 the ability to generale ps was removed, so the lpd backend was also removed. There is a reference and a patch to add back print to lpd (but not generate ps) for FreeBSD at: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail