Comments on: How To Change Or Customize Firefox Printing Defaults

By: vgeden

vgeden — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:18:37 +0000

I screwed up page setup in firefox so bad that it removed the margins & header/footer settings – the page is blank – so I can't even manually reconfigure. Anyone ever do this? All I wanted to was to see if I could span the scope of printing out a goggle map and I change the margins to 2.5 and the headers and footers I made blank. I guess that was my lame-brained mistake.

I reinstalled Firefox, I rebooted, restarted my printer and nothing helped.

By: lesg

lesg — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:31:07 +0000

HELP! Just installed Firefox 4 recently and went to print off an item today — no print command/icon anymore! What do I do – firefox help left me totally confused and muddled. Can anyone give me simple instructions to be able to access my printer again?

By: not

not — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:53:52 +0000

not changer

By: Geoff Collet

Geoff Collet — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:31:23 +0000

It would appear Mary, above has the same problem as I. If i use google chrome to access internet and emails there is no such printing problem. looks like firefox is the problem and becoming unusable. for emails and netbank

By: Geoff Collet

Geoff Collet — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:26:12 +0000

after some firefox uogrades there have been problems with printing page. It appears almost in code although if the text is known it can be decyphered

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:06:34 +0000

I have no idea what language Firefox is printing in. Why can't it just print the page the way it's shown? I have to save it to a word document or something to get it to print some things correctly. What is the problem? Craig's list items all have to be saved first, then printed. And just now I printed out an e-mail attachment which also printed in some foreign language or something. It sure can't read English and print in English. Never seen anything like it before.

By: thepadi

thepadi — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:50:25 +0000

Do you have other custom code for Firefox 3.5?
I need to print &PT for non-English language, so I need to change the "of" word.
Any idea?

By: Mark Dreskler

Mark Dreskler — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:42:56 +0000

Using Firefox 3.5.5, File, Page Setup, Margins & Header/Footer it says you can use Custom in Headers & Footers and we wanted to know if instead of Date/Time could we make it print just Date. In Help it says use Custom, &D and set Windows, Control Panel, Regional Options, Short date to just a date format, but it still prints date/time when we tried this Custom, &D. In Internet Explorer &d prints short date, but in Firefox 3.5.5 &d doesn’t work.

By: Aristotelis

Aristotelis — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:24:11 +0000

Hi,
Is there a way to SAVE the print settings (custom header, footer, etc.) in Firefox?
E.g. I would like to have 2 or 3 different sets of configurations and change easily between them .

Can this be done:
- via FF configurations?
- via an add-on? (which?)
- through the page (e.g. using javascript or sth)?

Btw: great post with much useful info!

Thanks in advance,
Aristotelis.

By: Nagaraju

Nagaraju — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:56:44 +0000

Hello Sir,

I am using fire fox. I am facing printing problems

By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:38:14 +0000

So, supposing I want to permanently customize my print header settings? How can I do that?

– Mario

By: Chris Smy

Chris Smy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:39:05 +0000

I just want on a footer the date but whenever i use any of the coding &d or &D it still gives me the time on there aswell.
Is there anyway to stop the time showing?

By: Mohommad Nobirul Islam

Mohommad Nobirul Islam — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:55:22 +0000

I want to Firefox Print Preview for my web application reporting. I can put there header and footer for my reporting not with Firefox page setup Header or footer, I user HTML tag , and now I need to put the page number inside of my content/page.

Is there any way that Firefox can display print preview page number inside of my content/page not to Firefox header or footer?

By: J-Mac

J-Mac — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:44:58 +0000

There are a lot of pages that simply do not print well from almost ANY browser. The biggest offender IMO, sadly, is Firefox. "Sadly" because Firefox is my main browser! Yet many times I get web pages that should be maybe eight or 10 page long printouts yet Firefox's Print Preview shows one page – the others are either not shown (and therefore not printed) or print blank pages.

IE has the age-old problem of cutting the right side off of pages. Grrrr. How many times have I printed off some pages I really needed when I was in a rush and then, later when I try to read or otherwise use them I see that the last two, three, or even more words are cut off the right side. Frustrating!

Believe it or not my solution to ALL web page printing is….. download Opera and keep the latest version on your computer. Opera is actually pretty cool, though it is missing a few features that keep me from switching to it full-time. It browses pages a LOT faster than either Firefox or IE – any version. And it even loads uop faster than other browsers.

But the great thing it does is its amazing ability to reduce any web page to fit perfectly in the monitor display. And print them perfectly!!! Anytime I am using Firefox – which is most of the time – and I have a printing problem in it, I use the "Opera View" toolbar button – installed via an extension aptly named "Opera View" – and Opera instantly opens to that very web page. I click the Print button and whatever printing problem I was having is solved instantly! Then, of course, I close Opera and switch right back to Firefox and continue browsing.

Opera has solved just about all my web page printing problems.

J-Mac

By: aceqbaceq

aceqbaceq — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:21:37 +0000

i succesfully solved this problem for myself.
i have printer named 3120.
go about:config
enter keyword "edge"
then i change this values so :

print.printer_CUPS/3120.print_edge_bottom=60

print.printer_CUPS/3120.print_edge_left=40

print.printer_CUPS/3120.print_edge_right=40

print.printer_CUPS/3120.print_edge_top=40

by the way sucha variables as

print.print_edge_bottom
print.print_edge_left
print.print_edge_right
print.print_edge_top

DOES NOTHING.

then i go to file-page options-margins & header/footer-

i setup margins :
top=0.8 inch
bottom=0.8 inch
left=0.5 inch
right=0.5 inch

and my paper size is set as "letter (8,5×11 inch)", though i print on A4. but unfortunately firefox do not print properly on paper A4 when it is on A4. that is paradox for me.

that is all.

and i don not understand. why so long ( now we have firefox 2.0.0.13) firefox have such basic stupid mistake.

by the way if firefox have
top=0.9 or top=0.7 then it printed page only about 25% of its content.

and that is not all.

if top position of page intersect position of header, then top part of page destroy header. and in this case header did not print.