Librewolf browser can't print/save webpages as pdf

Someone · Saturday at 12:04 PM

In my home laptop librewolf print-save as pdf only save nearly blank pages. In the laptop i have at work that is also a FreeBSD install, this works fine. Am i missing some package from the FreeBSD repo in my home laptop? This is done with any webpage i am trying to print/save as pdf.

scottro · Saturday at 6:49 PM

I don't have this problem, if that's any help. I guess check which packages are on the work laptop relating to pdfs (and maybe cups or whatever you use to print) and see if they're all on the home laptop.
Also, the obvious, make sure that they're the same version of FreeBSD and of librewolf.

blackbird9 · Saturday at 9:40 PM

FWIW, printing current page to pdf works fine on waterfox.

scottro · 2026-01-25T11:49:32+0000

For me, it works in both waterfox and librewolf.

bda65 · 2026-01-25T11:55:32+0000

For me it work with cups-pdf installed and cupsd running.

Someone · 2026-01-25T12:41:55+0000

bda65 said:
For me it work with cups-pdf installed and cupsd running.

cupsd seems to require libavahi, and i refuse to install any software by this UNIX-ruining Lennart Poettering. (avahi, pulseaudio, systemd)

bda65 · 2026-01-25T13:46:07+0000

You can't print PDF without cups but you can compile print/cups from ports without avahi.

Someone · 2026-01-25T16:23:09+0000

Update: just installed waterfox on the home laptop that had the problem and it is working to print webpages as pdf. In Librewolf forums.freebsd.org can be printed but no other sites. It must be a Librewolf issue, maybe a configuration option or something.

Perceval · 2026-01-25T19:32:48+0000

I also had this problem, I thought it was because I hardened the user.js, but not, I can't remember well but try to disable your firewall (pf for me) and test. I managed to block access to printers with a poorly made pf.conf...

Someone · 2026-01-25T19:51:49+0000

Perceval said:
I also had this problem, I thought it was because I hardened the user.js, but not, I can't remember well but try to disable your firewall (pf for me) and test. I managed to block access to printers with a poorly made pf.conf...

In Librewolf options i have an exception for https://forums.freebsd.org to be able to use cookies and site data, and its the only site i can print as pdf. So it must be something about security/privacy options.