Print in Firefox

***More details can be found in the online documentation: True Print and Printing Reports. ***

The True printing functionality depends on the browser PDF plug-in. Currently the supported plugins are Adobe PDF and Chrome PDF. If the PDF plug-in is not detected or supported, clicking the print button would export the report to PDF and depending on the browser would either open it directly or ask you to save the PDF file.

In Firefox 19+ the default viewing option for PDF files is the PDF.js. However currently PDF.js don't support stable print operation, it's not added as a plug-in and Firefox don't expose the content type viewing preferences. Thus the Adobe PDF plug-in is always active whether or not it is the preferred viewing option.

Having the above in mind for Firefox 19+ we have decided to fallback the print operation to export operation and let the users to print the PDF document with the available at their disposal PDF viewing tools. Currently this is the only way we can guarantee an appropriate action for the PDF print operation. Still we are looking for a better solution and monitoring the related Firefox bugs. Once a better solution is available we will elaborate in the release notes.