Firefox 3.5.3 can only print to file.

[Keith Hunt]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Keith Hunt <keith.hunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Keith Hunt <keith.hunt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Theodore Papadopoulo
>> <Theodore.Papadopoulo at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I do not know for Fedora 11 but for fedora 10 (and many previous versions)
>>> we have to
>>> add lpr in the gtk-print-backends in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (this is not related
>>> only to firefox though)
>>> as in:
>>>
>>> vanuatu-> more /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
>>> gtk-theme-name = "Nodoka"
>>> gtk-icon-theme-name = "Fedora"
>>> gtk-print-backends = "lpr,file"
>>>
>>> Hope this helps....
>>
>> Thanks, Theodore. This was somewhat helpful. After adding that line I
>> now have two options: print to file and print to lpr. Printing to lpr
>> does print to my default printer.
>>
>> However, what I really want is for the list of available printers to
>> show up like it does in other apps, and like it used to do in Firefox.
>>
>
> Adding this line in gtkrc appears to be a crude way to be able to
> print to the default printer but is certainly not a proper solution. I
> think the real problem is that Firefox is not conversing correctly
> with cups. I don't know if this is an issue with the cups libs or the
> gtk-2.0 libs. Any thoughts?
>
>
>
> --
> Keith
>

With help from others I seem to have found a solution. Something had
changed my CUPS conf file and removed the line for listening on a
socket interface. Adding that line back in resolved the problem I was
having.

-- 
Keith