My buddy Matt in Germany sent me this question:

I just upgraded Firefox to 1.5 (I know, I know, what took so long). Anyway, I have run into a strange problem. I cannot find the print dialog box into which I want to enter the kprinter command. I love the kprinter option because it allows me to save web pages as a pdf. Any clue where the print dialog box has gone? It's not in the usual File-Print-Properties box.

Here's my answer (& I left out my cursing about how Firefox is increasingly becoming GNOME-ified on Linux ... stupid stupid stupid: "Hey, let's REMOVE features that people actually use!" Jeez. Linux was right.)

1. Open Firefox.

2. Enter the following in the address bar & press Enter:

about:config

3. In the filter, enter the following:

print_command

4. Find this:

print.postscript.print_command

Double-click on that line. Where you see this:

lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME: '-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}

Change it to this:

kprinter

5. Close & restart Firefox. When you print in the future, from the dropdown list of printers, choose PostScript/Default to use kprinter. that should fix it.

You'll have to do this crap every time you upgrade Firefox. <sarcasm>Thanks, GNOME!</sarcasm>

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