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Slow print preview (multiple browsers) (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Buildout@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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The print preview is taking about 2 minutes to generate in Firefox, and for the last 15 seconds the entire Firefox window becomes unresponsive. I am only "printing" to a PDF to save, and I have no printers connected to my (modern) laptop.

When I tried on Chrome for comparison, it takes about 30 seconds (still a ridiculous amount of time) but without the freezing behavior.

I tried setting print.prefer_system_dialog to false (which does not generate a preview that I can see), but Firefox still takes just as long to pop up the system dialog and the window still freezes.

I only really care about fixing the problem with Firefox. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks!

Info:

Mozilla Firefox 121.0
Google Chrome 120.0.6099.129
11th gen Intel laptop on Arch Linux

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[–] 0xCAFE@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

With Firefox 121 it takes me around 1 second to generate the print preview of this post. I recall however that I had similar issues in the past (while slow, never 2 minutes though). Maybe a system update with an up to date kernel version could help? I'm on Linux 6.1.69 for reference.