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No printers listed in Linux Firefox 3.0.19 although about:config has both printers

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I reinstalled my linux box recently, and now that I'm trying to print a web page in Firefox, I have no printers listed in the printer dialogue. I use the CUPS system, and both printers Canon and PDF-writers are shown under other Linux apps, but not under Firefox.

Nonetheless, printers are present in the about:config dialogue, I can find keys such as print.printer_CUPS-PDF.print_bgcolor but also others like print.tmp.printerfeatures.CANONPIP3000.paper.1.is_inch and print.tmp.printerfeatures.CUPS-PDF.can_change_num_copies

just to mention a few. The strange thing is some settings appear under a "tmp" section.

I've seeked the forums, but none of the problems there match mine, nor solutions solve my problem.

What can I do to add the printers to Firefox?

I assume this is not a Linux/KDE problem, as other applications correctly detect the printers.

I reinstalled my linux box recently, and now that I'm trying to print a web page in Firefox, I have no printers listed in the printer dialogue. I use the CUPS system, and both printers Canon and PDF-writers are shown under other Linux apps, but not under Firefox. Nonetheless, printers are present in the about:config dialogue, I can find keys such as '''print.printer_CUPS-PDF.print_bgcolor''' but also others like '''print.tmp.printerfeatures.CANONPIP3000.paper.1.is_inch''' and '''print.tmp.printerfeatures.CUPS-PDF.can_change_num_copies''' just to mention a few. The strange thing is some settings appear under a "tmp" section. I've seeked the forums, but none of the problems there match mine, nor solutions solve my problem. What can I do to add the printers to Firefox? I assume this is not a Linux/KDE problem, as other applications correctly detect the printers.

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I have the problem in Firefox 3.6.10 on Fedora 13. I can print from Thunderbird and other apps, but not Firefox, as none of the printers show up in the print dialog.

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If you have the 64bit version of Fedora, you could try installing the libgtk+2.0 package. This is how I solved it. Although my Firefox version is/was 3.0.19.

Apparently as Firefox is built under 32bit, it requires some 32bit libraries.

Hope this helps.

Balpo

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This problem is occurring in 3.6.12 also.

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I suppose it's the same problem. Are you using a 64bit OS?

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Same problem on version 3.1.6 on Debian Lenny amd64 (x64, 64bit).

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The same problem is in Firefox 5.0 and Thunderbird 3.1.10 on x86_64.