[Xprint] xprint 009 and firefox 0.8

Wed Apr 7 11:14:27 EDT 2004

Roland,

With your build of Firefox for Solaris, is it built with support for 
multiple processors? We've been having some load issues on our server which 
has 4 processors and 4 Gig of memory with around 60+ firefox sessions, and 
I was wondering if the -02 option might make some difference in regard to 
this as well - processors aside?

Cheers,

         Matt.

Matthew Hooper
Systems Officer
Flinders University Library
GPO Box 2100   ADELAIDE
South Australia   5001
Phone +61 8 8201 2068  Fax +61 8 8201 2508
http://www.lib.flinders.edu.au

At 11:13 AM 5/04/2004, you wrote:
>avorop at mail.ru wrote:
> > Printing of russian text from firefox (or mozilla) does not work. Today
> > I've found one posting that suggests to print thru Xprt. So, I've
> > installed xprint 009. This really fixed the problem for mozilla. But
> > firefox 0.8 still does not work. There, no printing is done at all.
> > Printing dialog shows me all printers, just like in Mozilla, but then
> > printer does not get any data for printing. Most likely it is internal
> > problem of firefox, but I wanted to ask here first, just in case someone
> > has heard something similar already.
>
>The problem you're hitting is a bug in the gcc compiler version used to
>compile the official Mozilla.org FireFox 0.8 build. I filed
>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233497 ("Strange xprint
>printing behaviour ((null) in printer list)") a while ago after many
>complaints hit my inbox (you're No. 62 since FireFox 0.8 was released...
>;-( ).
>
>The actual problem is that some time before the FireFox 0.8 release the
>default optimisation switch was changed to "-Os" (instead of "-O2")
>which causes some Xprint-specific code which queries the paper size
>names to be miscompiled. The result was that FireFox's Xprint module was
>still working unless you change the paper size (that's the reason why
>this bug was not affecting everyone - you have to go to the print job
>options dialog first before you hit this bug) - the miscompiled code
>always generated invalid paper names so the Xprint module refused to
>print with the error code "requested paper size not supported for this
>printer". However the error code was never shown to the user thanks to
>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234982
>("nsPrintEngine::ShowPrintErrorDialog() fails in many cases").
>Both issues are fixed now so both the current FireFox nightly builds and
>the upcoming FireFox 0.9 release should be working, FireFox 0.8 builds
>from other sources than Mozilla.org should work without problems unless
>they have been compiled with "-Os", too.
>
>Additionally I have build own FireFox 0.8 release binaries (incl CTL and
>SVG support, see
>http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0.8.html) for
>Linux/x86:
>- Normal GTK1 build:
>
>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu-ctl-svg.tar.gz
>
>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu-ctl-svg.readme
>
>- Xft-enabled GTK1 build:
>
>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu-ctl-svg-xft.tar.gz
>
>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu-ctl-svg-xft.readme
>
>- Normal GTK2 build
>
>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu-ctl-svg-gtk2.tar.gz
>
>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu-ctl-svg-gtk2.readme
>
>- Xft-enabled GTK2 build:
>
>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu-ctl-svg-gtk2-xft.tar.gz
>
>http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu-ctl-svg-gtk2-xft.readme
>
>Another annoying bug for Solaris users was
>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235913 ("Random crashes
>while printing on Solaris") but I recompiled my FireFox 0.8 builds and
>uploaded the fixed builds to ftp.mozilla.org (the Linux/x86 builds
>listed above include the same patch):
>- Normal GTK1 build:
>
>ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-sparc-sun-solaris2.8-ctl-svg.tar.gz
>
>ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-sparc-sun-solaris2.8-ctl-svg.readme
>
>- Normal GTK2 build:
>
>ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-sparc-sun-solaris2.8-gtk2.tar.gz
>
>ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-sparc-sun-solaris2.8-gtk2.tar.gz
>
>BTW: Both issues (that Xprint was broken in FireFox and the Solaris
>crasher) were known long before 0.8 was released... but the people
>posted the bug reported to web forums instead of Mozilla.org's bugzilla.
>Therefore: PLEASE PLEASE file bugs at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ when
>you see them. If the engineers working on the code don't know about the
>bugs then they can#t fix them.
>
>To bryner:
>Is it possible to add an item for
>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233497 to the FireFox 0.8
>release notes (e.g. "Printing with Xprint is broken in the two official
>Linux/x86 release builds due bug 233497. Please use the contributed
>builds xyz-1, xyz-2, xyz-3 etc. instead...") ? As I said, this was
>number 62... ;-(
>
>----
>
>Bye,
>Roland
>
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Matthew Hooper
Systems Officer
Flinders University Library
GPO Box 2100   ADELAIDE
South Australia   5001
Phone +61 8 8201 2068  Fax +61 8 8201 2508
http://www.lib.flinders.edu.au 