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From: Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-bin does not find my CUPS-Printers
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:35:04
Message-Id: 201001311634.25104.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-bin does not find my CUPS-Printers by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Sunday 31 January 2010 12.02:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > On 30 Jan, Dan Johansson wrote:
3 > > As of lately my Firefox-bin (running on AMD64) does not find any of my
4 > > CUPS Printers, only "Print to File" and "LPR" are available for printing.
5 > > From every other program I can print normally (even from gtk-demo ->
6 > > printing)
7 > >
8 > > I have looked at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266678 but that
9 > > did not help.
10 >
11 > I had the same problem here. The only (but perfect) solution was to
12 > abandon Firefox-bin in favour of Firefox. The compilation took a minute
13 > only (since most functionality is in xulrunner, which I need anyway).
14 > In addition plugins are working (better) now since firefox-bin is a 32
15 > bit application on a 64 bit machine which isn't ideal.
16
17 Yes, the problem is the plugins - that is why I was forced to change to
18 firefox-bin in the first place when I moved to AMD64 (some years ago).
19
20 Have you got Shockwave, Java, Adobe to work with the "Standard" (Gentoo way)
21 Firefox?
22
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24 Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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