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> Print updates: Margin units are now localized.

Print in firefox is totally broken. The change to Chromium was the last nail in the coffin for printing. The new web does not care.



> The change to Chromium was the last nail in the coffin for printing.

I don’t think that Firefox uses code from Chromium for printing, does it? I believe that the print interface merely resembles that of Chromium.


??? I print through Firefox all the time with no issues. What exactly were you experiencing?


I wouldn't say that Firefox specifically is worse at it than other browsers though, but I kind of agree with parent comment that the "new web" doesn't care about printing.

On more and more pages I encounter issues like the printer only printing out the cookie warning window, or just the left navigation bar, etc. and none of the actual page content that I wanted to print. Or content goes up to the first in-line advertisement and then cuts of there with just blank pages coming out of the printer after that. Or weird pagination issues where there's text on page 1 and text on page 2, but there's a bunch of text missing in between that is otherwise visible fine on the screen.

I'm talking about web pages that don't specifically have a "print" button on them. If it looks like the page is using a fancy layout I typically now just do a screenshot and print the resulting .png.




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