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Thu, 18 Feb 2010
Chrome Is Useless For Printing
A few days ago, I announced a decision to try Chrome as a replacement for Firefox. I said that I would keep using it unless it fails to do something that I really want and it has now done just that.
Chrome has no print dialog or preferences and it insists on sending pages to the printer as US Letter pages. My printer is loaded with A4 paper and it knows that. So my printer—quite correctly—refuses to print the output from Chrome.
So I googled for an hour or so and discovered that my experience was common and well-known and that, even in version “5.0.307.5 dev”, there’s no solution. How utterly lame.
Since I’ll have to use Firefox whenever I need to print anything, I’ll have to go back to using Firefox. If somebody tells me that Chrome has been fixed, I’ll try it again. But I must say that my general attitude towards Chrome and Google is pretty negative right now. And, even if they give me back the two hours I wasted this afternoon, I’ll still be pretty unimpressed.
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