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Firefox 4/5/6.0.1 printing on Solaris 10 slow

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Hi,

printing a web page from Firefox 6.0.1 /Solaris 10/Sparc[1] is often
incredibly slow. That is: when the print progress pop-up is enabled, it
progresses through the pages, then waiting at before (or sometimes
after) the last page for lots of seconds to several minutes.

It's not starting the underlying lpr that slows down; I've checked this
by replacing it by a shell script that /bin/cat-s to a temporary, then
starts lpr in the background, and logs progress...

I've seen this occasionally before FF6.

All users, from time to time, not all users at the same time.

hm, could it be some resource starvation with pipes? How would I
check this? Any other idea?

(It can't be memory starvation - The machine normally has 10 GB unused).

	-is


[1] This is

instein 5 # pkginfo -l SFWfirefox
   PKGINST:  SFWfirefox
      NAME:  Mozilla Firefox Web browser
  CATEGORY:  GNOME2,application,JDSosol
      ARCH:  sparc
   VERSION:  6.0.1,REV=110.0.4.2011.08.31.19.11
   BASEDIR:  /
    VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
      DESC:  Mozilla Firefox Web browser
    PSTAMP:  grandslamsun20110831221922
  INSTDATE:  Sep 06 2011 13:29
   HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:       88 installed pathnames
                   7 shared pathnames
                  22 directories
                  27 executables
              158014 blocks used (approx)

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Firefox 4/5/6.0.1 printing on Solaris 10 slow Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@einstein.cs.uni-bonn.de> - 2011-09-09 11:58 +0000
  Re: Firefox 4/5/6.0.1 printing on Solaris 10 slow groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) - 2011-09-09 16:40 +0000
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