Firefox print dialog refuses to let me print to my default printer

Bug #444890 reported by Nathaniel Smith
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

When I try to print from firefox, the print dialog that appears lists my printers, and has a "print" button at the lower-right.

When my default printer ("home-laserjet") is selected, then the "print" button is greyed-out, and cannot be clicked.

If I select any other printer from the list, then the "print" button becomes enabled, and printing works fine.

This is with firefox 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 on Karmic, amd64.

The only things I can think of that make "home-laserjet" different from the other printers are:
  1) it is the default printer
  2) it is a remote printer on an IPP server (it uses an ipp:// URL pointing to my cups-running server downstairs), while all the other printers use socket:// or hp:// URLs to point to the printer directly. This has caused weird problems before: see bug #258104

I'll attach screenshots showing the print dialog.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 6 13:31:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

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