Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

["Ed Harrison" <eharrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Reply to message from Francesco Scaglioni <fgs@xxxxxxxxxx> on Mon, 22 Nov
2004 12:20:58 +0000 (GMT)

 Firefox 1.0 from Suse rpm will not print.

Did you get any feedback on this.  I have tried the firefox 1 rpm
from SuSe as well as the version direct from the mozilla site and
whenever I try to print firefox hangs at the lpr command - from
which the only way out is to kill it.  Using pretty well stock
SuSE 9.1.


Never got the SuSE rpm to work.  So, I went back to mozilla.org and got the
full gzip
version, not the installer.

ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.0.tar.gz

As root, I gunzipped it in the default location, /opt/MozillaFirefox, and now
it works with lpr.  And, I might add, it is a marvelous product.  For real
speed test a feature called "pipelining".

I have no idea why they switched the SuSE version to ghostscript, nor why it
would not work.

Ed Harrison
SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla
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