I've had a reply from a Google dev after posting in their groups about this:
> Hi Jeremy (Jez),
>
> Your analysis of the printing bug is dead-on, all except for the reasons
> behind it. Firefox 1 and 2 had a nasty habit of printing transparent pixels
> in an image as solid black (you can still see this in the waypoint markers if
> you install FF2), so we added this "compromise" to print non-transparent
> light gray instead. This behavior was FINALLY fixed in firefox 3, although
> we didn't notice for a while.
>
> I'll be fixing this bug soon, although it won't make it to production
> immediately, especially during the holidays.
So looks like we won't need to evangelize on this one. :-D
(In reply to comment #34) www.mozilla. org/projects/ tech-evangelism /site/procedure s.html
> In reply to comment #33:
>
> So the site is broken. Reporter, you might be interested in
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I've had a reply from a Google dev after posting in their groups about this:
> Hi Jeremy (Jez),
>
> Your analysis of the printing bug is dead-on, all except for the reasons
> behind it. Firefox 1 and 2 had a nasty habit of printing transparent pixels
> in an image as solid black (you can still see this in the waypoint markers if
> you install FF2), so we added this "compromise" to print non-transparent
> light gray instead. This behavior was FINALLY fixed in firefox 3, although
> we didn't notice for a while.
>
> I'll be fixing this bug soon, although it won't make it to production
> immediately, especially during the holidays.
So looks like we won't need to evangelize on this one. :-D