Closed Bug 243491 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Print preview or printing this web page produces 300 mostly blank pages

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 212984

People

(Reporter: markht, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 If you open this page in a web browser and do a print preview, you get a 300 page preview. A little bit of the banner is at the top of the first page, most of the next 296 pages are blank. The last 3 pages have the rest web page in reasonable format. If you actually print this page, you will get the 300 page output like the preview indicates. I am printing this using a HP4L laserjet printer. This is NOT a postscript printer, and it is attached to a different computer on my home network. I also tried printing this page at work using the same version of FireFox on some big HP laser printers, and I got the same 300 page output. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601 in FireFox 2. Select File -> Print Preview Actual Results: The print preview or the actual print out if you print it is 300 pages long. The banner from the web site appears somewhat distorted at the top of the first page. After this most of the pages are blank except for a few lines at the top of each page. The rest of the web page is on the last 2 or 3 pages of the print preview. Expected Results: The print preview or print out should have been about 3 pages long. IE 6.0 does print this web site correctly.
This has already been fixed in nightly builds, it now shows 4 pages in print preview (not that there aren't a lot of other bugs in the printing system that also affect this page). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212984 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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