OT: howto change Firefox's default print options

[Mike Wright]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 12/22/2009 01:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> On 12/22/2009 11:32 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I need help with the default printing options in Firefox. It has a very
>>>> annoying "feature" when trying to print: it insists on providing me 
>>>> with
>>>> preselected headers and footers.
>>>>
>>> I believe the things you're looking for are in about:config. Look
>>> for "print.printer_(printer_name).(attribute). The attributes are:
>>>
>>> print_footercenter
>>> print_footerleft
>>> print_footerright
>>> print_headercenter
>>> print_headerleft
>>> print_headerright
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, Rick.
>>
>> Those are the ones I mucked with. No cigar though. Any changes made
>> there cause the status to change temporarily from default to
>> user_defined. After printing the current document they revert back to
>> default.
>>

My mistake.  There are multiples of those.  I'd discovered the transient 
ones and made my changes there where, surprise, they didn't stick.

mmmm, much better now...