Add-on {243cc1ee-c821-4544-aebb-54c44125b9aa} blocks e10s rollout.

I think this indicates that the plugin will be disabled on e10s builds soon.

NotWorking on Windows Firefox53

Fix https://addons.mozilla.org/es/developers/upload/d15ed6746e0c43cf83430c0bf1eb1b67#localization-tests

When uploading the plugin is warned to replace the saveURI action with Download component:

nsIWebBrowserPersist should no longer be used
Most nsIWebBrowserPersist methods have been superseded by simpler methods in Downloads.jsm, namely Downloads.fetch and Downloads.createDownload. See http://mzl.la/downloads-jsm for more information.

Error: GDK_BACKEND does not match available displays

The same script works fine when run in bash in a terminal.
A window containing the HTML page is flashing , then a progress window for printing is shown for 2-3 seconds.

Is there a chance to run it --headless ?

The quick workaround is to install Xvfb and run in script with:

/usr/bin/xvfb-run /usr/bin/firefox -print "http://....html" -print-mode pdf . . .

Teo

I've tried installing it on Windows machine but Firefox says it's not supported platform.

I created this issue for discussion in response to this request by @eclipxe13 in #9:

It would be great if based on your work we can make a testing/building routine. Even include it on travis-ci or another continious integration service.

Tested with FF51 When I have prefs.js with settings like this:

user_pref("print.print_footerleft", "");
user_pref("print.print_footerright", "");
user_pref("print.print_headerleft", "");
user_pref("print.print_headerright", "");

and I print with -print-footer-left left -print-footer-right right, I expect there to be a footer but I don't see one.

In FF11 the problem is worse as I can't turn off the default headers and footers with any combination of command line arguments or prefs.js modifications. I tested FF11 in Ubuntu trusty and centos 6.

This seems to only work for me once, then Firefox hangs and cmdlnprint won't run again until I reboot or do some serious clean-up. I get the error message: [GFX1-]: D3D11 layers just crashed; D3D11 will be disabled. ...then on subsequent runs, I get: [GFX1-]: D3D11 layers disabled due to a prior crash. but at lease it allows Firefox to close. In this case, the resulting PDF is unreadable by any viewer. I'm running Firefox v51.0.1 (32-bit). This happens from both the command line and a task scheduled .bat or .cmd file.

Thanks, very useful extension, but it stops working on Firefox 57+. Can you port it to WebExtensions?
Also I create a feature request in Firefox bug tracker https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407238 - maybe they integrate this feature in Firefox.

However print to pdf seems to work

I use docker to test. I will include my Dockerfile, entrypoint.sh and build commands below.

Setup x11 forwarding like this:

xhost +local:docker && socat TCP-LISTEN:6000,reuseaddr,fork UNIX-CLIENT:\"$DISPLAY\"

Run commands are as follows(for each of 11,45,51 set ff_version below):

ff_version=<AS MENTIONED ABOVE>
ff_home=`pwd`/ff-home-${ff_version}
DOCKER_DISPLAY=<IP ADDRESS OF WORKSTATION RUNNING X>:0
mkdir ${ff_home}
#Verify version
docker run --rm --volume ${ff_home}:/home/firefox -e "DISPLAY=${DOCKER_DISPLAY}" -u `id -u` -e 'HOME=/home/firefox' ff:${ff_version} firefox -version
#Setup cmdlnprint after running this next command
docker run --rm --volume ${ff_home}:/home/firefox -e "DISPLAY=${DOCKER_DISPLAY}" -u `id -u` -e 'HOME=/home/firefox' ff:${ff_version} firefox
#Now the actual test
docker run --rm --volume ${ff_home}:/home/firefox -e "DISPLAY=${DOCKER_DISPLAY}" -u `id -u` -e 'HOME=/home/firefox' ff:${ff_version} firefox -print https://google.com -print-mode pdf -print-file /home/firefox/google.pdf

Results:

Mozilla Firefox 11.0 on ubuntu precise: PDF Produced
Mozilla Firefox 45.0.2 on ubuntu xenial: cmdlnprint windows displays but hangs
Mozilla Firefox 51.0.1 on ubuntu xenial: PDF Produced

In Firefox 45 I have confirmed that I can print to file in this same environment that cmdlnprint does not work. I printed to /home/firefox/mozilla.pdf and verified that the output was as expected.

I have tested in a similar manner with the same results with CentOS if you need me to prepare Dockerfile for CentOS I can do so but it would require some work to prepare from the version that I have for my solution.

Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:latest
#FROM ubuntu:precise
#For Firefox Version 11 use precise (12.04)
#Ubuntu Current Stable is 16.04 aka xenial aka latest

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
ENV RUNUSER firefox
ENV UBUNTU_NICKNAME xenial
#ENV UBUNTU_NICKNAME precise
ARG FIREFOX_VERSION=51

RUN \
  useradd -m $RUNUSER && \
  sed -i 's/# \(.*multiverse$\)/\1/g' /etc/apt/sources.list && \
  echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${UBUNTU_NICKNAME} multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multiverse.list  && \
  echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${UBUNTU_NICKNAME}-updates multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multiverse.list && \
  echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${UBUNTU_NICKNAME}-backports restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multiverse.list && \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    dbus-x11 \
    firefox=${FIREFOX_VERSION}* \
    ttf-mscorefonts-installer \
    xvfb && \
  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

COPY entrypoint.sh /tmp/entrypoint.sh
RUN chmod 755 /tmp/entrypoint.sh
ENTRYPOINT ["/tmp/entrypoint.sh"]

entrypoint.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'

DISPLAY=${DISPLAY-}
FB_DIR=${FB_DIR-/tmp/bigchart-fb}
FB_RESOLUTION=${FB_RESOLUTION-1024x768}
FB_PIXEL_DEPTH=${FB_PIXEL_DEPTH-24}

if [[ -n ${DISPLAY} ]]; then
  echo "DISPLAY already set to ${DISPLAY}.  Skipping Xvfb setup."
else
  echo "Setting up Xvfb in ${FB_DIR}"
  Xvfb :1 -screen 0 ${FB_RESOLUTION}x${FB_PIXEL_DEPTH} -fbdir ${FB_DIR} 2>&1 | \
    egrep -v '^(_XSERVTransmkdir.*will not be created\.|Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display .*\.)$' &
  export DISPLAY=":1"
fi

exec "$@"

Build Commands

docker rmi ff:11 ff:45 ff:51
docker build --build-arg FIREFOX_VERSION=45 -t ff:45 ./ &&
docker build --build-arg FIREFOX_VERSION=51 -t ff:51 ./ &&
sed -i.orig -E -e 's,^(FROM ubuntu:|ENV UBUNTU_NICKNAME ).*,\1precise,' Dockerfile &&
docker build --build-arg FIREFOX_VERSION=11 -t ff:11 ./
mv Dockerfile.orig Dockerfile

Hi,

I have problems with this extension on latest Firefox at Linux:
The error: Failed to open curl lib from binary, use libcurl.so instead

Failed to open curl lib from binary, use libcurl.so instead
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 339
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal..

Thanks...

Hi
would love to use this, can you update for latest firefox 60 please?
happy to pay a bounty!

Hello,

I'm excited to use your extension but it doesn't seem to be working properly for me.

When I try it in OS X 10.11.6, Firefox starts up and loads the page, but nothing is printed and the browser window stays open.

Here's the command I'm using:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -print https://google.com -print-mode pdf -print-file /Users/myaccount/test.pdf

I've tried running it with Firefox 49.0.1 and Firefox 45.4.0 but the same thing happens.

I've also tried Ubuntu 14.04 and get almost the same issue.

Can you provide any pointers to help me get this working?

Thank you,

Steve