Comment 1 for bug 526482

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In , Otto Kekäläinen (otto) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 Firefox/3.5.7

The Mozilla/Firefox print dialog does not seem to work like the print
dialog in other Gnome applications:

Example:
1. In Firefox, the default file type is PostScript, while in Gedit it is PDF.
(bug #539426)
2. In Firefox the default file name is empty ".ps", while in Gedit it is
"print.pdf". (bug #485067)
3. In Firefox, the print dialog does not remember any settings unlike the
dialog in Gedit. If you for example choose in the Firefox dialog to make a
two-sided print, nothing of it is left when you restart Firefox. In Gedit every
change to any optio is saved - if you once choose to e.g. make a two-sided
print, all prints will be two-sided until the option is changed again.
4. The file dialog does not remember the folder last used (bug #454003)

In my opinion Firefox should implement the print dialog in the same way as
other Gnome/GTK apps do. The behaviour of e.g. Gedit is more correct and closer
to the principles for example described in the Gnome User Interface Guidelines.

Also I read the original Netscape's philosophy was "keep each dialog in the
same state where it was last time".

Reproducible: Always