Firefox increasingly cannot reliably print out web pages, whereas IE 11 can do so. Being fixed? Or a permanent condition?
Increasingly, Firefox produces a poor web page printout, with missing frames or lack of page to page correct continuity, leaving some things out. When I log into exactly the same website problem pages with IE11, the printout is almost always is fine. My question is whether the Firefox core community has just decided that printing out pages well is unimportant, or perhaps they believe that printing should be discouraged altogether. Or, is this a recognized problem which is being addressed? I just need to know whether to be patient for a while longer, or to go back to IE11 now to get reliable and complete printouts of web pages. Not griping--just let me know what's up....
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Certain style rules that work fine on screen are not paginated correctly in Firefox. As new styling methods become popular, it exposes new printing problems. These all go into a long queue to be fixed and... some of them get fixed while many other languish.
Printing has never been as high a priority for Firefox as it has been for IE due to IE's roots as a corporate standard browser. (It probably helped that IE was slow to support a lot of weirdly complex modern style rules.)
All of which is to say, don't hold your breath.
If there are particular sites you need to print from frequently, we might be able to suggest an easy workaround or quick fix. But if it crops up randomly, you might find yourself using IE more often than you like.
Some things to look at if you prefer to keep using Firefox as your primary browser:
(1) Full page screenshots (using an internal feature or free add-on). These are handy when the page has an intentionally different print layout that isn't to your liking or shrink to fit doesn't work correctly. However, printing long images can be a pain.
(2) PDF converter add-on (free or paid). These work in a variety of ways with varying level of privacy and fidelity.
(3) Open in IE. This is an add-on to launch the current page in IE, so at least you save the typing. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/open-in-ie/
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Certain style rules that work fine on screen are not paginated correctly in Firefox. As new styling methods become popular, it exposes new printing problems. These all go into a long queue to be fixed and... some of them get fixed while many other languish.
Printing has never been as high a priority for Firefox as it has been for IE due to IE's roots as a corporate standard browser. (It probably helped that IE was slow to support a lot of weirdly complex modern style rules.)
All of which is to say, don't hold your breath.
If there are particular sites you need to print from frequently, we might be able to suggest an easy workaround or quick fix. But if it crops up randomly, you might find yourself using IE more often than you like.
Some things to look at if you prefer to keep using Firefox as your primary browser:
(1) Full page screenshots (using an internal feature or free add-on). These are handy when the page has an intentionally different print layout that isn't to your liking or shrink to fit doesn't work correctly. However, printing long images can be a pain.
(2) PDF converter add-on (free or paid). These work in a variety of ways with varying level of privacy and fidelity.
(3) Open in IE. This is an add-on to launch the current page in IE, so at least you save the typing. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/open-in-ie/