[gentoo-user] Firefox-bin does not find my CUPS-Printers

[gentoo-user] Firefox-bin does not find my CUPS-Printers

[Dan Johansson]

As of lately my Firefox-bin (running on AMD64) does not find any of my CUPS 
Printers, only "Print to File" and "LPR" are available for printing.
From every other program I can print normally (even from gtk-demo -> printing)

I have looked at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266678 but that did 
not help.
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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-bin does not find my CUPS-Printers

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 30 Jan, Dan Johansson wrote:
> As of lately my Firefox-bin (running on AMD64) does not find any of my CUPS 
> Printers, only "Print to File" and "LPR" are available for printing.
> From every other program I can print normally (even from gtk-demo -> printing)
> 
> I have looked at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266678 but that did 
> not help.

I had the same problem here. The only (but perfect) solution was to
abandon Firefox-bin in favour of Firefox. The compilation took a minute
only (since most functionality is in xulrunner, which I need anyway).
In addition plugins are working (better) now since firefox-bin is a 32
bit application on a 64 bit machine which isn't ideal.

Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-bin does not find my CUPS-Printers

[Dan Johansson]

On Sunday 31 January 2010 12.02:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 30 Jan, Dan Johansson wrote:
> > As of lately my Firefox-bin (running on AMD64) does not find any of my
> > CUPS Printers, only "Print to File" and "LPR" are available for printing.
> > From every other program I can print normally (even from gtk-demo ->
> > printing)
> >
> > I have looked at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266678 but that
> > did not help.
> 
> I had the same problem here. The only (but perfect) solution was to
> abandon Firefox-bin in favour of Firefox. The compilation took a minute
> only (since most functionality is in xulrunner, which I need anyway).
> In addition plugins are working (better) now since firefox-bin is a 32
> bit application on a 64 bit machine which isn't ideal.

Yes, the problem is the plugins - that is why I was forced to change to 
firefox-bin in the first place when I moved to AMD64 (some years ago).

Have you got Shockwave, Java, Adobe to work with the "Standard" (Gentoo way) 
Firefox?
 
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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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