Printing problem, duplicated URL (other addon involved)

[e13bb4dac2]

Hello, I have some printing problems from time to time. At last I figured out why, now I'm just missing the how :)

Print Edit 16.4 and
Add URL to Window Title 1.01 disabled
Firefox 44.0.2, Windows 10.

Address bar URL:
https://plex.tv/

Tab name/tooltip/title:
"Plex: Your media on all your devices" (same having all add-ons disabled)

1. Print Edit enabled

1.2 Tab name/tooltip/title:
Plex: "Your media on all your devices"

2. Print Edit print dialog title:
"Plex: Your media on all your devices - Mozilla Firefox" (this string is sent to the printer/print job name, " - Mozilla Firefox" is added to the actual tab name content)

3. Add URL to Window Title 1.01 enabled

3.1 Tab name/tooltip/title:
"Plex: Your media on all your devices - https://plex.tv/"

3.2 Print Edit print dialog title:
"Plex: Your media on all your devices - https://plex.tv/ - https://plex.tv/ - Mozilla Firefox"

When the base title content is very long, the duplicated (when unusually long) URL + " - Mozilla Firefox" makes a printout fail using Print Edit. No error from the printer, the windows print manager/queue just stalls and eventually clears. No options in Print Edit.

Example:

http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html

end up as

2016 års kalender för privatpersoner | Skatteverket - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.ht

note the 2 last characters of .html and " - Mozilla Firefox" is missing (string len limit?). I can't print this page using Print Edit - but it does work using the basic native (ctrl+p) print dialog.

Solution; disable/don't use/talk to Print Edit?

Well, yes. But..

As expected (according to 2.), print Edit will add " - Mozilla Firefox". That's OK! What I can't figure out is why the URL is duplicated, having Add URL to Window Title 1.01 enabled? Is it all on Print Edit or is your (great) add-on somehow shooting twice? :)

Cheers

Edit: formatting error due to quotes wrecked the underline tag

[erichgoldman]

Hello,

Add URL to Window Title (AUtWT) checks for updates or changes on the page. This is necessary for single page applications and for named anchor links / hashes links (e.g., something.html#someref).

There is a check to see if the title already includes the URL. But if there is heavy JavaScript this can cause issues.

I am not sure what is meant by "Print Edit enabled" If I go to the File menu and then select Print or Print Preview on that website I am not getting a URL duplication. I think maybe there is an internationalization or language difference here. Can you post a series of screenshots or a gif video of a screencast so I can better understand which menus you are accessing. I was not able to replicate from the above.

I am testing on 44.0.1 I will test on 44.0.02 with a fresh install. I do not have Windows 10, so there may be an issue there.

The way that this addon works is by modifying the actual <title /> tag. The part where - Mozilla Firefox is added can also be edited, but that was not a stable API. Mozilla is moving to a similar style of plugins as used in Chrome, so I am not actively updating this version as this type of plugin may loose support. However, if I can replicate and fix I will issue an update.

Thanks for reporting this issue and for posting the review on the Mozilla Add-On site! Hopefully we can get this fixed.

[e13bb4dac2]

Hello,

I'm sorry for not being clear (addon mention in subject only) about Print Edit! Here's the link to the Print Edit addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/print-edit/

edit: missed pasting the URL within the link (url)-tag :/

I'll post screenshots during the weekend

Thanks for looking into it

:)

edit2: My (very nice) review above was removed. Probably because I linked here

[erichgoldman]

Hello,

I download the source for the Print Edit! extension. I did a quick search and it looks like that extension also does manipulations of the title field. There is no real way for the two extensions to communicate. I will see if there is something that can be done that would detect this. However, I think for the time being you will have to disable Add URL to Window Title when you want to use this print functionality.

[e13bb4dac2]

Thanks for input - I'll keep saving as pdf for now (whenever I need to edit a print) and attempt to contact the author of Print Edit and point him/her to this thread. With luck there's a simple fix for this issue from his end of things, perhaps best of all an option to skip changes to title data and/or set a max string length, alternatively parsing out title URLs altogether.

Thanks again!

Will update when/if sorted out in the near future

[e13bb4dac2]

Here's a picture. I have also linked to this thread here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-edit/reviews/779933/

! For whatever it is worth:
Base title: "2016 års kalender för privatpersoner | Skatteverket"
Added URL: "2016 års kalender för privatpersoner | Skatteverket - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html"
Added browser name: "2016 års kalender för privatpersoner | Skatteverket - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html - Mozilla Firefox"
This seems to be max length but not sure where the print actually fail: "2016 års kalender för privatpersoner | Skatteverket - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.ht"
Full duplicated title including ' - Mozilla Firefox' would be: "2016 års kalender för privatpersoner | Skatteverket - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.htmt - Mozilla Firefox"