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Any chance Firefox will have built-in support for printing to PDF? There's a browser extension[1], but it was last updated 3 years ago. Seems the Chrome browser

Any chance Firefox will have built-in support for printing to PDF? There's a browser extension[1], but it was last updated 3 years ago. Seems the Chrome browser has had this feature for ages. 1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-to-pdf-document/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-to-pdf-...

jwatt 6y ago
It's not ready for release yet, but if you flip the preference `print.tab_modal.enabled` to true you'll get the replacement printing interface which has a "Save as PDF" pseudo-printer.
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callalex 6y ago
Does your operating system not support this natively from the print dialog?
- auxym 6y ago
  On Windows at least, using the built-in PDF printer with Firefox results in text in the PDF file being converted to paths (not text). Huge file and you can't copy/paste. I've tried 3rd party PDF printers (PDFForge) and the result is the same, so I think it might a FF bug (or feature)? Chrome's save-as PDF produces actual text. It's the main reason I still have chrome installed.
  - RonanTheGrey 6y ago
    That seems.... odd. I am on Firefox on Windows and I print to PDF all the time using the Windows built-in PDF printer ("Microsoft Print to PDF"), without issue. In fact sometimes that printer is the only one that can get things to format correctly! Something on your system might be interfering with the printing process.
  - vel0city 6y ago
    There must be something strange your particular set up, or maybe the behavior changes based on the page. Firefox 81, Windows 10 version 2004, multiple computers, printing this page with the "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer this page of comments all result in a PDF of ~470KB with selectable text.