Bug#551715: iceweasel: switches randomly to letter paper

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:35:54PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.3-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I have as locale en_US.UTF-8, since I don't want Japanese nor German
> nor any other messages.
> 
> And then my beloved iceweasel simply cannot remember that the printer
> I am using here uses (like *anyone* in Japan) A4 paper.
> 
> I told it to cups, the default is A4.
> 
> I removed all entries in prefs.js regarding printing to get a clean state.
> 
> I selected A4 for all the printers.
> 
> It works some time, then suddenly firefox decides that it wants to print
> in letter again, the "All Printers" in the page setup field is set to
> letter, etc etc.
> 
> I mean there are two sources:
> - the cups default, that one should be available at all time
> - the /etc/papersize
> 
> What on earth is iceweasel doing there?

Does it (consistently) happen when trying to print from a webpage (like
a "print this page" link in a page) or randomly when printing from the
File menu ?

Mike