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Unable to print webpages from Firefox

Asked by Russell Murray

I am running 10.4. I can print test pages okay and pages from Open Office but when I try to print a webpage from Firefox all I get (after several minutes delay) is

PCL XL error
               Subsystem: KERNEL
               Error: IllegalTag
               Operator: 0x plus a two-digit number that varies each time
                Position: A six digit number that also varies every time, even if it's the same webpage

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try adding the mozilla PPA. It may help:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

Then rerun the browser, is it any better? You may need to log a bug.

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Russell Murray (russmurray) said : 		#2

YES!!! Thanks so much - that was all I've been using Windows for since I made the switch, now I can go totally Linux.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Was a guess, seems the build in the Lucid repo is quite broken. I always advise grabbing the PPA one first. There is also firefox 4 on that PPA as well as alpha versions of Thunderbird if that floats you boat. I don't use either but some people like it