Printing from Mozilla and Firefox

From: Clive Menzies (clive_at_clivemenzies.co.uk)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Hi

    Until recently, printing from Firefox and Mozilla was working fine,
    however, following recent upgrades first Firefox (0.8-12) baulked and
    later Mozilla (1.7-2) became similarly afflicted.

    There are two networked printers on separate woody servers running cups
    and locally, I'm running cups on a Mac G4 (sid). On selecting File
    Print, I used to get an option "postcript/default" which would print
    fine to the Epson. Selecting any of the other options (xprt or specific
    printers caused mozilla/Firefox to crash. Now after reboot I get four
    options from File>Print: the two named printers and xprt versions of the
    same printers. The Postscript default has vanished. If I reopen the
    browser and select Print, I get:
    "There was a problem printing. No printer could be found."

    Is anyone else experiencing similar problems? I've googled and found
    references to old versions of Mozilla giving problems but nothing
    relating the these two current versions. One post that did relate to
    firefox suggested that I need xprt-xprintorg installed - it is. But
    cups was working fine; do I really have to configure xprt instead?.

    TIA

    Clive 

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