From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 19:37:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7CB16A41F for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:37:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@comcast.net) Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.202.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4846243D5E for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:37:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@comcast.net) Received: from smogmonster.local (pcp0010916331pcs.albqrq01.nm.comcast.net[68.35.114.183]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005120119283101400hjofie>; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:28:36 +0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:28:27 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512011228.28405.krinklyfig@comcast.net> Subject: After Firefox upgrade, browser no longer prints without CUPS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:37:48 -0000 What does Firefox use to recognize printers? Every other application recognizes and uses the generic UNIX lpd (with Ghostscript and hpdij), which is what Firefox used before I upgraded it to 1.5. Now it insists on using CUPS or PostScript. I've been Googling for two days and can't figure out how to get it back where it was. Have to say, I love FreeBSD, but printing is a serious hassle. Every time the smallest thing changes, it breaks and requires several days of maddening searching and tweaking to get it back the way it was. Am about to break down and get a print server, as this is way too much to deal with on a regular basis. - jt