On 2022-03-19 08:44, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2022-03-18 13:41:39 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|On 2022-03-18 17:10, Jos van Kan wrote: |> Hello, |> |> For reasons that do not matter right now I moved from FF to GCS as my |> default browser. A day ago I ran into printer problems that I usually |> addres by use of CUPS. Much to my dismay I could not do any aignificant |> work because of lack of authorization. Ordinarily a popup appears to |> let you enter credentials but it did not. After a day of hairpulling and |> spelunking the net i chanced on a message of some good soul who wrote |> that he had the same problem with chromium and that switching to a |> different browser solved it. Much to my surprise he was right. I went |> back to FF and there it was: the popup for my credentials. |> |> There ought to be a law that this should not happen. :) FF rocks! |> |> I wonder what particular bug triggers this behavior in GCS. But in case |> you run into something similar here's this one more thing to try. | |I don't know, but I opened a page in Google Chrome right now and printed |a page, no problem and no popup. Same behaviour as in FF. | |But when printing a second job, failed in mid-print, and when trying |again it says that the printer failed and refuses. Says to check |printer, but printer shows no error at all, nor cups, nor in the log. | |Went to FF, printed the same page with no trouble.
I believe that CUPS only asks for credentials when one goes into the Administration tools.
I just started Chrome, went there, and got the login prompt, yes. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)