On Sunday 06 January 2019 10:17:16 Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 14:42:08 +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Curt wrote: > > > I suppose you could argue that the percentage of Firefox users too > > > lazy or bewildered to try another browser is good enough for > > > stackexchange, because, goddammit, you take what you can get. > > > > Please be nice - I am not lazy - I have Chromium, but I do not want > > to use it. I like FF more and I can not accept the argument > > regarding 1 page printing in FF, because other sites do not have the > > problem, hence it is doable to overcome the issue from within the > > site (perhaps css definitions - I do not know what exactly the issue > > is and I do not care). If site developers may embed 100s of lines of > > code to check browser and version and can adapt their sites to IE,FF > > and Chromium the least, they could also take care of this "feature", > > so lazy is not me, but the one that does not care, test or provide > > proper support for printing from within FF. This is my opinion only, > > you may accept or not... and I agree with Gene - stackexchange is > > phony in their philosophy, but it is their right to be so and my > > right to qualify it as such. OF course you have the right to have a > > different opinion and I respect this. > > Strictly speaking, the problem does not arise due a problem in the > printing system. Firefox produces a PDF before dispatching it for > printing and that PDF is not a true representation of the web page. > > Whether the issue is tackled by Firefox or at the stackexchange end > is immaterial; this will take time. Meanwhile, there is an elderly > user who had hoped to read and absorb the material today while eating > his free lunch. > > Maybe he would like to use SHIFT+F2 with Firefox (I have Quantum) and > take a screenshot of the whole page.
Two questions then, Brian: Where in the FF menu's does one find this magic key combo documented? > screenshot filename.png --fullpage And pray tell, where does it stash this .png? FF it seems, goes out of their way to select where it stashes a downloadable file. Its instructed to ask me, but rarely does. > > Use TAB to complete and move along the command line. The file produced > is named filename-fullpage.png and is, of course, printable. Good to know. Cheers, Gene Heskett --
