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Re: FYI, installing cups renders firefox unable to print



"John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> writes:

> I first ran into that a couple of years ago.
>
> There's a control you can add to firefox:
>
>     Name: print.postscript.cups.enabled
>   Status: user set
>     Type: boolean
>    Value: false
>
> so firefox won't try to use cups even if it is installed but not active.
> Last I heard, ryoon@ was going to add that as a default to future firefox
> packages, but I guess it didn't happen.
>
> Of course, as you found, simply removing cups works as well.

Can you file a PR?  This is a a serious bug, and while you removing cups
worked around it, it's likely others will be messed up by it.

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