Firefox/Printing Refresh

Summary

This page tracks ongoing work to update the printing user experience in Firefox Desktop.

Managing Bug Lists

• Add [print2020_v{XX}] to add a bug to the list of printing bugs targeted at a specific Firefox version (e.g. [print2020_v80] for version 80)

Charts

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Current and Upcoming Work By Release

Firefox 82 (Current Beta)

Start: 2020-08-21; freeze: 2020-09-17; merge to beta: 2020-09-21; release: 2020-10-20

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ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1663940	Paper size settings ignored except for Save to PDF destination	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1668516	[PI-819] [old UI] The page orientation can no longer be changed after printing to PDF on Windows	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1663972	Print preview spins forever if you try to open the new print UI before the document loads	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1663826	gmail printing of image attachments doesn't work (closes too soon) because of use of window.open() + meta refresh + window.print()	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1662939	Wait for print preview to be initialized before printing or opening system dialog	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S4
1668476	Print preview ignores printing custom page range & scale values if the print job is initiated before print preview gets updated with the specified values	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1664570	Add support for setting custom margins to the new print preview UI	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1669187	Print preview settings are ignored on first print to a printer when `print.tab_modal.enabled` is set to `false`	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1664339	Stop incrementing the legacy printing UI telemetry counts when the new printing UI is in use	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	--
1663733	Add telemetry for the time from print initiation to FrameLoader.printPreview() call and return	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1668641	Can't switch to preset margins after setting custom margins	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1666776	Start print when Enter is pressed when print preview select controls are focused	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	--
1661662	Mismatch between settings and preview		RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1663503	Menu > Print does not work properly on Nightly82.0a1 Ubuntu20.04 ("Preparing Preview" spins forever after "Error: Can't fetchPaperMargins")	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1663448	Pdf content broken in print preview when toggling orientation mode	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S3
1660665	Tab modal print UI should close after clicking "print using system dialog"	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S4
1662818	System modal has the “All” radio button selected even if a custom page range was set from the new UI	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1659877	Announce print UI form errors to screen readers	:Gijs (he/him)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S2
1664332	Derive the prepopulated filename for save-to-PDF from the system print dialog from the document title	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S3
1662434	sheets of paper not updated when switching destination to "Save to PDF"	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S4
1663137	[Ubuntu] Print using the system dialog link is no longer displayed		VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S1
1663445	System dialog opens after trying to save the file with “Save to PDF” destination	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S2
1662699	Can't select "margins: none" when computed margins are also 0.	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1663173	New Print modal is broken inside Customize page	:Gijs (he/him)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P3	S3
1664565	Sheet count flashes an invalid number when changing between PDF and non-PDF printers	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	S4
1662365	Intermittent toolkit/components/printing/tests/browser_modal_print.js | Initial focus on printer picker - Got [object HTMLBodyElement], expected [object HTMLSelectElement]	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P5	normal
1664500	The Minimum label is not displayed as the selected margins option inside the new Print modal on Windows 7	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	--	--
1663823	Printing a pdf email attachment opens an extra about:blank if you configure opening PDFs to "always ask"		RESOLVED	INVALID	--	--
1664793	Scale option is being skipped during keyboard navigation		RESOLVED	INVALID	--	--
1668621	Setting custom print margins no longer works for users who haven't printed before, as of v81	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P1	S2
1668002	Pressing Ctrl-P brings a non-functional popup, with an error in the console		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P1	--
1669631	Firefox print dialog doesn't get past throbber & "Preparing Preview", with error console showing "Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: can't access property "id", matchedPaper is undefined"		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P1	--
1664145	[Ubuntu] Print preview dropdowns are incorrectly displayed, intermittently		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	--	--
1663124	Canceling the System dialog closes the new print UI		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P2	S4

34 Total; 0 Open (0%); 18 Resolved (52.94%); 16 Verified (47.06%);

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ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1665007	Allow more room for DeviceCapabilities arrays for safety.	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1672370	Printing to Star Micronics receipt printer broken since v82 (output and print preview are blank)	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	--
1665649	The paper list is being created twice for the new printing UI on Windows	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S4
1662938	UI left open but disabled after printing with Microsoft Print to PDF (PrintUtils.printWindow promise does not resolve)	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1660658	Tab modal print only allows black and white selection on some color printers on environments using older CUPs such as Ubuntu 16.04	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1661157	Multiple seconds of delay (with little CPU activity) before print dialog appears	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S1
1664172	firefox crashes if print is selected	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S1
1664009	New print UI arbitrarily defaults to different paper sizes (for the same printer), seemingly at random	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1667723	Unable to print from Outlook Web Access calendar after updating to Firefox 81	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1666827	Clicking on a link in the preview browser will navigate the preview browser	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S3
1662946	Empty paper lists cause hangs firefox on Ubuntu 18.04/16.04 (Error: Can't fetchPaperMargins)	Erik Nordin [:nordzilla]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1663920	Selecting print hangs firefox on macOS when Bonjour/network-printers are present	Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1672529	When printing, PDFs are misaligned and clipped in v82 due to extra margins	Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	--
1664530	Crash in [@ nsPrinterWin::GetMarginsForPaper]	Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1665272	The new printing preview is very slow to open	Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1667032	Crash in [@ OOM | large | NS_ABORT_OOM | nsTArray_base<T>::EnsureCapacity<T> | nsTArray_Impl<T>::SetLength<T> | nsPrinterWin::DefaultSettings]	Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	--
1663494	Crash in [@ nsPrintSettingsWin::InitWithInitializer] by MOZ_DIAGNOSTIC_ASSERT (else system dialog erroneously opens on beta/release)	Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1663344	`filter:grayscale(1)` is broken on Intel Windows gen6	Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1669370	Purge the worst/most obvious cases of corrupt/invalid printing prefs	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	--
1667953	Save to PDF actually prints on macOS (stop propagating unprefixed print.print_to_file=false)	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1663639	[Win] Printed pages are blank when using a new profile		VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S1
1663536	Large increase in printing errors reported via telemetry		RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1663412	Crash in [@ cupsGetDestMediaByName]		VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1663410	Crash in [@ cupsGetDestMediaDefault] (CUPS threadsafety issue?)		VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1667509	Tab-modal printing "Save to PDF" option doesn't work (produces zero-sized file, and prints to regular printer)(jemalloc freed memory?)		RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1672354	Printing to Star Micronics TSP 100 receipt printer broken since v82 (only headers printed)		RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	--
1665031	Paper size settings for a real printer quit working after switching to the PDF destination and back		RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1664980	Print preview is shown with the wrong paper size sometimes (on Windows 7)		VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S3
1663669	[Intermittent] Print preview pages get stuck in Portrait mode (due to reusing settings objects across printers)	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S3
1664981	Crash in [@ frdvpr_ui.dll | NCOMLibrary::TUnknown::HandleQueryInterface]	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1662940	Add back assertion to ensure numPagesOnThisSheet is > 0	Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S2
1659807	Consider adding an nsIPrinter.systemName	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
968753	GTK Printing Code should store and keep printer settings by printer and recognize any paper size.	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	normal
1665064	Print preview shows background images, even though it's disselected	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S2
1665343	Not printing revoked blob image	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1664178	PDF documents previewed via Printer icon are not displayed correctly	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S3
1661781	PrePrintNextPage failure causes fatal "Assertion failure: mPromise, at dom/base/nsFrameLoader.cpp:3145, after "WARNING: The print progress dialog finished opening, but communications with the child have been closed" in PrintProgressDialogParent.cpp	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S2
1659470	[Windows][parent process about pages][print-to-pdf] Print preview infinite loading state and wrong output	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1666964	bad default paper size	Erik Nordin [:nordzilla]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S3
1662325	New print UI gets stuck when opened via window.print() if privacy.firstparty.isolate=true	Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S2
1666110	Gather telemetry on the paper sizes people print to	Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1666473	[macOS] Paper size settings unexpectedly revert to default on actually submitting a print job	Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1662538	Implement localization of paper names in the fallback paper-sizes list	Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S3
1665618	Default to allowing printing in color on failure to get printer capabilities	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	--
1662222	Don't spin the event loop in nsPrintJob::DoCommonPrint when called by extensions	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1669390	We're failing to track telemetry for silent printing when print.tab_modal.enabled is true	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	--
1659928	Print Preview and printing shows as empty or very tiny page for all printers except "Save as PDF"	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S2
1657006	Investigate whether nsPrintSettingsService::GetLastUsedPrinterName may fail		RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1664258	Increase the default resolution for non-windows platforms.	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	--
1665125	Make some print settings [infallible]	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	--
1664227	The default page margin should be at least the unwriteable section, but not added on top.	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	--
1664205	Simplify rect getters in nsIPrintSettings.	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	--
1665779	crash near null in [@ nsPrintJob::InitPrintDocConstruction]	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	S1
1665792	crash near null in [@ mozilla::dom::Document::CloneDocHelper]	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	S2
1661873	Audit whether it's right thing to do that we do create nsRootPresContext for subdocuments in print preview (maybe also in printing)	Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	S3
1668228	Print Preview to take by default the document's title for the Print to PDF option		RESOLVED	INVALID	--	--
1672320	Thermal printer Aures ODP 333 doesn't print after update to Firefox 82.0		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P1	S2
1672398	Cannot choose A4 paper size		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P1	S2
1673012	Firefox tries to print Letter paper size instead of default A4		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P1	--
1668762	[PI-819] Images are not displayed on the print preview before printing at least once using the old UI on Windows		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P2	S2
1665658	Change paperId to a string and set it to paperName on CUPS		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P3	N/A

61 Total; 0 Open (0%); 42 Resolved (68.85%); 19 Verified (31.15%);

Firefox 83 (Next Nightly)

Start: 2020-09-17; freeze: 2020-10-15; merge to beta: 2020-10-19; release: 2020-11-17

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ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
140718	Add a "Print selection only" menu item to the context menu when there is a selection	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	normal
1669844	Add a "Printing" section to about:support	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	--
1668242	Fix under-reporting of printing errors in telemetry	Emma Malysz	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	--
1669207	New UI has saved invalid margins to prefs, causing print preview to become completely disabled and unusable	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	--
1668665	Leave print preview open if the user cancels saving as pdf	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S4
1669696	Custom margins are not applied if a second value is changed after the error message is triggered and the “trigger” value is than changed to a valid one	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S4
1670008	The None margin option cannot be selected if failing to validate an invalid field by adjusting a value inside another field	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1666956	Add printing preferences to about:support	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1666687	print preview and nothing.. ("Error: Can't fetchPaperMargins")		RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	--
1666523	Make the new print UI set nsIPrintSettings.paperSizeUnit whenever it sets a paper dimension	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S3
1669211	On some locale (here: french), the checkboxes for "print headers and footers", and "print backgrounds" don't have the same size	Emma Malysz	VERIFIED	FIXED	P3	S4
1669723	Stop unnecessarily catching exceptions from nsIPrintSettingsService.lastUsedPrinterName	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	--
1666938	Consider starting the fetch of printer capabilities when a print is initiated	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	RESOLVED	WONTFIX	P2	--
1669182	Printing is not submitted when hitting "Enter" after opening the New Modal		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P2	--
1669354	New modal print dialog box does not include two-sided (duplex) printing option		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P2	--
1664017	Paper size dropdown shows paper sizes with symbolic (lowercase-and-underscores) names on Linux		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P4	--
1672304	Investigate / fix inaccurate initial paper width on mac OS.		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	--	--
1663484	Session restore should not restore print preview doorhangers		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P2	--
1667662	Changing the paper size should not revert paper orientation to portrait		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P2	S3
1657020	In our new tab-modal printing UI, the print-preview scrollbar looks like it's a scrollbar for the settings UI		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P3	S3

20 Total; 0 Open (0%); 15 Resolved (75%); 5 Verified (25%);

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ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1666773	Make conversion constant names in nsPrinterWin consistent.	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1667486	Avoid using CUPS localization names for paper sizes which we already have a name for	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1672625	Black and white printing prints in colour (color) on Linux	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1670943	Black and White printing support for macOS	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1670643	Firefox window closes automatically after printing via print preview	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1669554	Crash in [@ IPCError-browser | RecvCloneDocumentTreeInto Illegal subframe clone]	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S2
1667510	ff calculates print number of pages wrong	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1667978	Printer is missing from the new modal	Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P1	S2
1668492	Print paper size and scaling prefs are truncated in locales using a decimal separator other than "."	Bob Owen (:bobowen)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	--
1661868	Remove legacy page-range codepath (and bring the new skip-during-reflow codepath up to feature-parity with it, so it supports non-contiguous page ranges)	Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1669772	Stop calling nsPrintSettingsService::GetDefaultPrintSettingsForPrinting in nsGlobalWindowOuter::PrintOuter	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	--
1670876	Infinite print preview loading state if printing an XML selection via context menu	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S2
1557645	Basic support for OOP-iframes in print preview	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	normal
1661984	Add a browser mochitest for the crash on printing when using container tab	Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	S3
1667053	Convert nsPrintSettingsX to do something like nsPrintSettingsWin::CopyFromNative/CopyToNative	Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]	VERIFIED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1662336	Merge print recording targets from cross-origin iframes	Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1667405	Crash in [@ nsPrinterWin::DefaultSettings], due to failure of MOZ_DIAGNOSTIC_ASSERT(printerDc, "CreateICW failed");		RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S2
1666918	Handle Duplicate Paper Sizes Returned By CUPS	Erik Nordin [:nordzilla]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	N/A
1667039	Gather the printing prefs together in all.js, and remove some obsolete prefs	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	N/A
1667285	Make nsPrintSettingsService::_CreatePrintSettings pure virtual	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	N/A
1668301	Merge the 'printing-widget' NSPR module into the 'printing' module	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	--
1667265	Remove nsIPrintSettingsService.globalPrintSettings	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P4	N/A
1668296	Remove a bunch of DEBUG_rods code	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P4	--
1668076	Fix formatting in nsPrinterListCUPS.cpp	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P5	S3
1669375	Remove our existing not-working code for printing odd/even pages	Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	--
1669409	Simplify nsIPrintSettings:kEnableSelectionRB into a boolean	Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	--
1665816	Assertion failure: false (Duplicate display item!), at /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/layout/painting/nsDisplayList.cpp:152	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	VERIFIED	FIXED	--	normal
1668406	Add a member to the print settings to allow overriding page margins.	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	--
1671036	Page-margin settings aren't reliably respected in test_printpreview.xhtml	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	--	--
1557640	Implement a way to determine when static clone docs with OOP-iframes are ready		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	P2	normal
1669922	Scale options are no longer working inside the old UI		RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	--	--
1671288	Amazon shipping labels print blank intermittently		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P1	S2
1662980	Low quality print output is triggered randomly		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P2	S3
1668230	Print preview takes a bit of time to reload all content when changing the number of pages to print		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P2	S3
1643529	Platform support for toggling of 'Print selection only' in print preview		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P2	N/A
1660775	display: table-cell causes empty pages when printing		RESOLVED	WORKSFORME	P3	S2

36 Total; 0 Open (0%); 28 Resolved (77.78%); 8 Verified (22.22%);

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