Re: locale settings for spelling, paper size, etc

Austin Hook <austin@hook.org> writes:

> I have for a long time set my /etc/papersize to "letter". In my
> experience Firefox ignores it. At some point the default setup for the
> Firefox package became A4 and I have to manually re-set it to letter,
> manually in the pop-up, whenever I print. Can't make it default to
> letter. Can't find an about:config for Firefox that works for me.

That suggestion of aoubt:config prompted me to look, there are several
print.print_paper_* settings, have you tried those?

This post indicates that print.print_paper_name may be the way...

https://superuser.com/questions/184476/how-to-set-default-page-setup-%e2%86%92page-size-as-a4-in-firefox#309175

... but it doesn't work for me in FF 58.0.2

I see the following:

print.print_paper_data integer 0
print.print_paper_height string 11.69
print.print_paper_name string iso_a4
print.print_paper_size integer 0
print.print_paper_size_unit integer 0
print.print_paper_width stirng 8.27

I have tried resetting to default, tried "letter" and "na_letter" as the
print_paper_name, but the print dialog always defaults to A4 regardless.

> Keep telling myself to look for a change to compile in, but shudder to
> think of building Firefox.

Agreed. I tried once and after quite some time if failed for lack of
resources (don't remember exactly what, now).

Allan