

Thanks to the underlying technologies, it allows the company have a unified look of the Print Preview page on all supported platforms. But for Mozilla, the new dialog is a step forward. But those must be disappointed by the change. Perhaps the number of users who still used the older Print page in Firefox is not that big. Set it to true to get the system print dialog. Update: In Firefox 101, use the _system_dialog prefernce for the same. According to them, you can easily fix this problem by using Windows + Left Shift keys shortcut. Firefox 97 no longer includes the print.tab_modal.enabled preference that enables/disables the new dialog, so users will have to deal with the modern Print Preview page. Dell laptop owners reported that their keyboard isn’t working in Firefox, and according to them, the problem was caused by pressing Windows + Fn keys. To the classic Print Preview dialog is now discontinued. It looks like Mozilla finds the newer dialog stable enough for all users. Also, if the new dialog could cause some issues, it was possible to simply get rid of it and continue with the good old stable version. That allowed users who was not impressed by the change to get what they used to. Those include the ability to choose a printer, change the number of copies, document orientation, and so on.Īlong with introduction of the new dialog, Mozilla has added a special about:config option to disable the new dialog and restore the classic one. The newer one includes a link to the built-in print dialog, however, it includes most of it features you usually change. The most of its space is occupied by a preview of the page you are going to print.įor a comparison, the classic one has the following appearance:

It shows all the printing options on the right. The newer Print Preview page was first introduced in Firefox 81.
