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Slow print preview (multiple browsers) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by Buildout@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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The print preview is taking about 2 minutes to generate in Firefox, and for the last 15 seconds the entire Firefox window becomes unresponsive. I am only "printing" to a PDF to save, and I have no printers connected to my (modern) laptop.

When I tried on Chrome for comparison, it takes about 30 seconds (still a ridiculous amount of time) but without the freezing behavior.

I tried setting print.prefer_system_dialog to false (which does not generate a preview that I can see), but Firefox still takes just as long to pop up the system dialog and the window still freezes.

I only really care about fixing the problem with Firefox. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks!

Info:

  • Mozilla Firefox 121.0
  • Google Chrome 120.0.6099.129
  • 11th gen Intel laptop on Arch Linux
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