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

• View burndown chart for all work since project inception.

Current and Upcoming Work By Release

Firefox 87

Start: 2021-01-25; freeze: 2021-02-18; merge to beta: 2021-02-22; release: 2021-03-23

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Frontend

Full Query

ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1692232	Enable print.tab_modal.enabled pref on all channels	Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	N/A
1688099	Restore the state of the More settings twisty on load	Emma Malysz	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1689468	Remember when user expand the "More settings" toggle in the tab-modal print UI	Emma Malysz	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	S3

3 Total; 0 Open (0%); 3 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Platform

Full Query

ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1676191	[CUPS] In some printers, page is printed with colors even if "Black and white" mode is selected from print preview		RESOLVED	FIXED	P1	S3
1647843	Servo changes to support @page rule size attribute	Emily McDonough [:alaskanemily]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1673099	Update Platform Print Settings To Handle Duplex Printing Options (None/FlipOnSideEdge/FlipOnTopEdge)	Erik Nordin [:nordzilla]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	N/A
1663710	Too many users have long wait times for printer information to be fetched		RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S2
1679520	Portrait mode will load only 1 or 2 pages in Print Preview, while landscape mode loads all the pages		RESOLVED	INVALID	P3	S3
1667495	Investigate Storing Connection in CUPSPrinterInfo	Erik Nordin [:nordzilla]	RESOLVED	DUPLICATE	P3	N/A

6 Total; 0 Open (0%); 6 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Firefox 88

Start: 2021-02-22; freeze: 2021-03-18; merge to beta: 2021-03-22; release: 2021-04-20

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Frontend

Full Query

ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1671702	Add "Flip on side edge"/"Flip on top edge" options to new print UI (duplex printing)	Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	--
1663385	About:addons page is displayed as a blank one when printing	Luca Greco [:rpl] [:luca] [:lgreco]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S2
1669732	Add error message for page copies	Emma Malysz	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	S3
1682162	Print margin unit should be localized	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P3	--
1681867	Intermittent macOS toolkit/components/printing/tests/browser_preview_navigation.js | Uncaught exception - 2 successive 'previous'/'next clicks correctly update the sheet indicator - timed out after 50 tries.	Emma Malysz	RESOLVED	FIXED	P5	S4

5 Total; 0 Open (0%); 5 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Platform

Full Query

ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1676409	Crash in [@ mozilla::MozPromise<T>::ThenValueBase::AssertIsDead]	Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow)	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S3

1 Total; 0 Open (0%); 1 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Firefox 89

Start: 2021-03-22; freeze: 2021-04-15; merge to beta: 2021-04-19; release: 2021-05-18

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Frontend

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Platform

Full Query

ID	Summary	Assigned to	Status	Resolution	Priority	Severity
1668322	Prevent window.print() stunlocking tech support scam	Emma Zühlcke [:emz]	RESOLVED	FIXED	P2	S2
1694879	Users unexpectedly get "short-edge" as the default duplex print mode (i.e. upside down content), if they did any duplex printing with the system dialog in Firefox 81-85 (and have "2" saved as their "duplex" value in about:config as a result)		RESOLVED	WONTFIX	--	S3

2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Archived Work by Release

See the archives page for detailed information.