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How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox?

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So when I go to select a printer in Firefox, there are many autodiscovered
printers to choose from. I don't want any of them in my list. How do I turn
this off?

I found the two "browse" options in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, but they make no
difference. I found /etc/cups/cups-browsed, but killing that daemon makes
no difference. In fact, killing CUPS altogether makes no difference (except
my desired printer then goes away), so obviously this isn't a CUPS thing.

Then I discovered Avahi (and had to go into learning mode - apparently this
is also known as "Bonjour" and "Rendevous" and "ZeroConf", depending on OS
and version and situation). The most obvious tweaks in
/"etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf", the two "disable-publishing..." options,
don't do anything.

But I can "systemctl disable avahi-daemon" altogether to get rid of the
unwanted printers. But that seems like overkill, and disables all of
Avahi's function (I was pleased to learn I can find non-Windows clients on
our mostly-Windows-oriented network using Avahi, just by adding ".local" to
the hostname - ex. "ping bigserver" fails, but "ping bigserver.local" gets
replies - sweet!).

So, any one know how to tell Avahi to not publish found printers to
Firefox's print dialog?

Thanks!

-- 
Kent West                    <")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

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How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-09-26 07:20 +0200
  Re: How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-26 12:40 +0200
    Re: How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-09-26 14:10 +0200
      Re: How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-26 16:00 +0200
        Re: How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
          Re: How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-27 15:40 +0200
            Re: How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-09-27 16:50 +0200
              Re: How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox? Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-09-27 18:00 +0200
              Re: How to Turn Off Autodiscovered Printers in Firefox? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-27 18:10 +0200

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