After upgrading to Firefox 3 on my OpenBSD 4.4-beta box, I noticed that I could not print anymore. I'm using the stock lpd(8) to print. When I brought up the print dialog box, it only showed "Print to File" option.After quite a bit of googling, I found my solution.
A post to Mozilla's bug tracker explained that this is a problem with GTK, not Firefox. To restore the ability to print, I had to create a new ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file and add this line:
Now I can print again. Yay!
gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups"
How do you install Firefox 3 in OpenBSD 4.3 ? The source code if of .mar (not tar.gz) which i googled with no luck
ReplyDeleteI didn't see FF3 in 4.4-beta snapshot port/package
Would it involve linux emulation? I also have no idea about it
A blog about the process of installing / upgrading to FF3 would be beneficial
Thx!
> How do you install Firefox 3 in OpenBSD 4.3?
ReplyDeleteOfficial answer, upgrade to a snapshot.
> I didn’t see FF3 in 4.4-beta snapshot port/package
You didn't look hard enough. In recent snapshots, there is a firefox3-3.0.1p3.tgz package.
> A blog about the process of installing / upgrading to FF3 would be beneficial
$ sudo pkg_delete mozilla-firefox
$ sudo pkg_add firefox3
great article. i am using cupsd, but as cups supports printing using the lp-commands, it works for me too :)
ReplyDeletethank you.
yup. it happened to me a few days ago.
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing the secret ;-)
take care,
giovanni