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On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 13:42 -0800, Mike Wright wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Rick Stevens wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On 12/22/2009 11:32 AM, Mike Wright wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Hi all,</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> I need help with the default printing options in Firefox. It has a very</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> annoying "feature" when trying to print: it insists on providing me with</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> preselected headers and footers.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I believe the things you're looking for are in about:config. Look</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> for "print.printer_(printer_name).(attribute). The attributes are:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> print_footercenter</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> print_footerleft</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> print_footerright</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> print_headercenter</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> print_headerleft</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> print_headerright</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks, Rick.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Those are the ones I mucked with. No cigar though. Any changes made </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">there cause the status to change temporarily from default to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">user_defined. After printing the current document they revert back to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">default.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It appears that there is no way to modify the default behavior and that </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the only way to get rid of that idiocy is to compile the browser </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">oneself? IMO it makes a lot more sense from a usability perspective to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">click once to enable something desired than to have to click seven times </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to disable something undesired.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I always felt that Mozilla/Firefox was the standard to which others </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">should aspire but I fear that I may be seeing signs of pig lipstick...</FONT>
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Mike,<BR>
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You've probably tried this, but just in case you haven't... :-)<BR>
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File -> Print... -> Options tab -> Header and Footer<BR>
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There are two rows of three pull-down option menu boxes that correspond to the six about:config options you already found. You can set any or all to --blank--. Any changes you make should be written to the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<random>.default/prefs.js file when you exit Firefox. It should be owned by <you>.<you> and its access permissions should be 755.<BR>
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HTH<BR>
--Doc Savage<BR>
Fairview Heights, IL
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