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Now if only they’d use the macOS native print dialog like every other app. What ever possessed them to roll their own print dialog?
by larrysalibra 5y ago
Now if only they’d use the macOS native print dialog like every other app. What ever possessed them to roll their own print dialog?
- juniperplant 5y agoI don't know why the trend, but Chrome also uses its own print dialog by default.
- Semaphor 5y agoProbably because the Windows system dialog is horrible ;)
- kevingadd 5y agoYeah, given the number of people who run Firefox on Windows, you absolutely need to have a custom print dialog for them. Maybe it should default to the system one on OS X, but you gotta have that custom one.
- Saint_Genet 5y agoProbably some wish to be consistent for all firefoxes across all platforms. It's pretty common for x-platform software, and I think a big mistake. Most people don't move across platforms that often and those that do already encounter so many other differences a print dialog being recognizable won't make much change.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThis. GIMP's save/open file dialog on Windows is, for the lack of a better word, graphics and usability-wise disgusting. Confusing and fiddly controls, no thumbnails (on a graphics application!) If anything, they should replace the GTK open/save dialog with something that mimics the Windows one.
- ben-schaaf 5y agoGTK(3+?) can actually easily use the platform open/save dialog with GtkFileChooserNative.
- WhyNotHugo 5y agoI agree completely on how stupid this is. A person is a "Windows user", and prints on lots of applications on Windows, and expects a consistent experience across all applications. Same applies for Linux users and Mac users. A person is not a "Firefox user", who prints of Firefox on Windows/Linux/Mac. The few people who _do_ fit this unique profile, are very much used to seeing very different dialogs on all three platforms. Also, printing in 2021? I get that people still print, but it seems equivalent to improving the Fax dialog in 2006.
- curt15 5y agoIn the coronavirus age, reading printed materials causes me less eyestrain than reading on a computer screen.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoThe macOS print dialog has a number of pdf options I use frequently.
- pseudalopex 5y agoTurn off print.tab_modal.enabled in about:config.
- michaelt 5y agoThey want to show a full-sized print preview, which isn't possible on Linux or Windows (I don't know about OS X) A preview is important as web designers seldom pay much attention to print stylesheets; the user probably doesn't want to print five pages of navigation menus, or print a black background with white text.
- nfoz 5y agoThank you, that explanation makes sense. IMO you should get a preview (with options for changing the rendering), and you can go from that to the system dialog. Instead of combining them.