Issue 132649 in chromium: Chrome insists on printing to an old default printer

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Labels: OS-Linux Area-Undefined Type-Bug Pri-2

New issue 132649 by sprigo...@google.com: Chrome insists on printing to an
old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

Chrome Version : 20.0.1132.27
OS Version: Ubuntu Linux 2.6.38.8

What steps will reproduce the problem?
I'm not sure how to reproduce the problem on a different computer, but on
my machine Chrome always defaults to an old printer. This printer used to
be my default, but since then I moved to a different location and set up a
different default printer in the system settings. Chrome doesn't seem to
pay any attention to the system settings and doesn't remember the last used
printer between sessions. If I print several time within the same session
the last used printer is automatically selected, but the selection reverts
to the old printer once Chrome is restarted.

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.27 Safari/536.11

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Comment #1 on issue 132649 by bed...@gmail.com: Chrome insists on printing

to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

I have the same problem in Chrome 22.0.1216.0 canary on Win XP SP3.
This started about a month ago or so.
When I select Print the print preview dialog comes up, shows the Print
button
for a second and then changes it to a Save (as pdf) button.
If I click the Change... button and then Local Destinations Manage ...
I can select the correct printer and print.
But the next time I print something the dialog is back to Save as pdf.
Very annoying.

I've tried a tip I read somewhere to delete the default printer and
reinstall it
but that didn't help.

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Updates:
Labels: -Area-Undefined Area-Internals Feature-Printing

Comment #2 on issue 132649 by dhar...@google.com: Chrome insists on

printing to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

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Comment #3 on issue 132649 by bed...@gmail.com: Chrome insists on printing

to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

Update: Works ok on my laptop running Windows 7
in Chrome 22.0.1217.0 canary
but I have the problem (Print button turns to Save)
on 22.0.1207.1 dev-m

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Comment #4 on issue 132649 by bed...@gmail.com: Chrome insists on printing

to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

Update: I just updated my work PC (Win XP) from Canary 22.0.1216.0 to
22.0.1217.0
but that didn't help like it did on my Win7 laptop yesterday (see previous
post).
Could this be Windows version dependent?

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Comment #6 on issue 132649 by bed...@gmail.com: Chrome insists on printing

to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

Update: After updating today to 22.0.1215.3 dev-m on my Windows 7 laptop
the print dialog works ok!

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Comment #7 on issue 132649 by bed...@gmail.com: Chrome insists on printing

to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

Update: Print dialog is fine now on work PC (Win XP) with 22.0.1215.3 dev-m
but the problem remains with 22.0.1218.0 canary

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Comment #9 on issue 132649 by abod...@chromium.org: Chrome insists on

printing to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

bedata and spirogogin, can you try on the latest dev? If you print to a
printer the same printer should now be selected when you open the dialog
again.

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Comment #10 on issue 132649 by jerrymil...@gmail.com: Chrome insists on

printing to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

I starting having the exact same problem just this past week (always
defaults to print-to-pdf no matter how I change defaults. It is very
frustrating. I have the current Chrome version.

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Comment #11 on issue 132649 by sprigo...@google.com: Chrome insists on

printing to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

Could you please remind me how to install dev version on Ubuntu Linux.

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Comment #12 on issue 132649 by abod...@chromium.org: Chrome insists on

printing to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

Use your favorite package manager to uninstall whatever "google-chrome-*"
package you have installed and install "google-chrome-unstable"

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Comment #13 on issue 132649 by bed...@gmail.com: Chrome insists on printing

to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

Sorry about the late answer (vacation ...)

Problem is back on 22.0.1229.8 dev-m (see my note from Jul 26)
and is still not fixed on 23.0.1239.0 canary (Win XP) :-(

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Updates:
Cc: nik...@google.com aksh...@chromium.org

Comment #14 on issue 132649 by abod...@chromium.org: Chrome insists on

printing to an old default printer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132649

Issue 143882 has been merged into this issue.