Annoying problem - Firefox prints in Landscape by default!

disordered · 03-05-2006, 12:20 PM

It gets really annoying when I forget to switch it to portrait and it automatically prints everything in landscape. This makes me waste a lot of paper and it's really a problem. Can anybody help?

martt · 03-05-2006, 11:57 PM

Are you switching page orientation in the printer's options, or Firefox's options? Just in case you haven't looked (apologies if you have), there is an option in Firefox's File Menu to check:

File > Page Setup > Format & Options. Click 'Portrait' in the 'Format' section.

If that's already done, type about:config into the Address Bar and press 'Enter'. Copy and paste this: print.use_global_printsettings into the Filter box. See that the value is set to 'True' (double-ckick on the entry to change it).

03-05-2006, 12:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
disordered Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 165 OS: XP	Annoying problem - Firefox prints in Landscape by default! It gets really annoying when I forget to switch it to portrait and it automatically prints everything in landscape. This makes me waste a lot of paper and it's really a problem. Can anybody help?

03-05-2006, 11:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
martt Alternative Computing Team Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South of England Posts: 310 OS: XP Pro	Are you switching page orientation in the printer's options, or Firefox's options? Just in case you haven't looked (apologies if you have), there is an option in Firefox's File Menu to check: File > Page Setup > Format & Options. Click 'Portrait' in the 'Format' section. If that's already done, type about:config into the Address Bar and press 'Enter'. Copy and paste this: print.use_global_printsettings into the Filter box. See that the value is set to 'True' (double-ckick on the entry to change it).