When printing, the child process creates and fills a print settings object and sends it over to the parent process. But, for a new print operation, those printer-specific prefs were not being loaded to populate the print dialog. With this bug, I just want to fix the header/footer setting persistence issue.Īfter a successful print operation, the printing code was correctly saving the header and footer settings to printer-specific preferences. I looked back through some old bugs, searching for 'mac print preview' and some bugs have been filed over the years to add this, but it never got done. On Windows, we do have a preview via page setup. I agree and I think the preview would be a nice improvement on Mac. It shows how the printed page will look like, this is a very nice feature and one that I would like to see in Firefox. Then please look at the Print user interface in Chrome. We would want to get some data first about how much the settings are used before removing them. I think having the ability to customize the headers/footers is useful, but maybe we only need to enable/disable printing them. File -> Print -> Page Headers and Page Footers.It would be great if you can comment on the bug with your opinion about it. We have bug 1492299 filed for that, but we haven't done any work on it. I think Firefox needs to eliminate these two things: (In reply to Andy Bajka from comment #12) I found several bugs regarding such issues, but opted to file a new one to start clean.

So it would be best, if Firefox respected that choice and remembered those adjustments.

Chances are the user prefers that specific value for their use case. The user just set them to a certain value. The header + footer options should be remembered. after the PDF is stored the print dialog closesĪll header + footer options are filled again.

save to PDF (via the dropdown selection in the bottom left - it shows 'PDF' in the screenshot)ĥ. clear all header and footer options to empty (in german locale that translates to -leer-)Ĥ.

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