So I use FireFox for most browsing… except for when I want to print something. If I know I’m going to eventually print something out, like a purchase invoice or a business license renewal confirmation, I use Internet Explorer. Why? Because FireFox effing sucks when it comes to printing.
Anyone who’s ever tried to print more than a single page using FireFox knows that it not only cuts lines of print in half (if that line happens to fall on the page break), but it also simply drops a percentage of margin on the top and bottom. The bottom line is (yes, it’s a pun), if your bottom line of text is cut by a page break, the margin chopping will result in one very unreadable line… and chances are that line was the only really important thing you wanted to print out anyway.
So why the rant? I just finished a big long pain in the ass process on this goverment website, in firefox, and printed out the final confirmation page. I didn’t think about it until I closed everything down and grabbed the pages off the printer. Of course, the most important line in the whole thing was completely obliterated by FireFox. WTF!
Come one someone… anyone… get on the opensource bandwagon and fix this shit already! Here’s the source code. Oh, you want me to take a stab at it? Recently I’m finding it much more important to focus on getting paid to fix problems.
To be fair, IE has it’s own problem with margins… it just happens to be in the other direction. If the page/frame you’re printing out goes “too wide” (which often has nothing to do with the actual width or amount of free space on the paper), it will crop the right side of the print job… usually the total on any invoice or order confirmation.
