The print icon no longer brings up the print box
The print icon no longer bring up the print box, which is the box that appears when clicking on "File" "Print". Instead, it brings up a new webpage with an image of what is to print. That is more cumbersome and takes more steps. Even though I can print from that page, I also have to back out of that new page when
I am done. I am using Windows 8.
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Sorry, that is a new "feature" in Firefox 29.0.
You could use {Ctrl + P} to initiate printing and not see the Print Preview window, but beyond that I don't have a solution for you that involves an easy way to revert to the previous action of that button.
I use an extension named Print / Print Preview that adds a contextual menu entry for both Print and Print Preview. I don't like wasting the toolbar space for a button, when I can print via a context menu item (something that was left out of Firefox since the beginning, IMO).
The benefit of the previous print icon was it gave our employees a single click to pull up the print menu. Now they have to go through a more complex method, albeit just a couple of keystrokes. Why not have two types of print icons - the current one that retrieves the print menu directly? That allows the user to choose what best fits them.
Thanks, Andy
See also:
- Universal Print: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/universal-print/