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It can't print. It doesn't support printing. If I need to print (to paper or PDF) something like an order receipt for an insurance claim or a shipping label to return something, I need to use another browser.

I still use it, but this annoys me ~weekly.

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Yeah, the Save as PDF feature was handy and its absence from the current Firefox for Android feels like a regression. I hope they add it back.

- GitHub issue for printing: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10217

- GitHub issue for Save as PDF: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3709

Not sure how much it might help you, but I'm able to print from mine by "sharing" a page to an app for my printer from firefox mobile, but I'd definitely like a proper printing option instead.

why not screenshot or save it? It's not like the content is different.

Sometimes you must send a proper PDF. And saving a page to PDF (or "printing") is a basic feature of a browser. They shouldn't release a mobile browser without that.

Also, sending a low quality screenshot of a mobile screen isn't a professional thing.

>Also, sending a low quality screenshot of a mobile screen isn't a professional thing.

Cause a pdf is much more professional just because you open it in Adobe vs your photo gallery...

This is bar none some of the most business oriented pretentiousness I've ever read on here. There is nothing wrong with image files and screenshots. It's just a file format. The fact that you save one as a pdf doesn't change the fact that, again, the content is the absolute same. Anybody who is that anal about how they receive a file that does the exact same thing is completely out of touch. In my experience, only old people say the things you're saying cause they don't know how to work with various files.

Screenshots doesn't scale properly and destroy all information about text (not that PDF stores text properly, but at least PDF readers succeed with various tricks to recover it).

Exactly. Being able to copy data from the PDF instead of relying on OCR or copying by hand is a great asset.

Also, in my country if I send plain screenshots from important things like bank transfers, legal documents instead of the generated PDF file I get politely asked to send them again. If the original is on paper a good quality scan is OK though.

And, you can't certificate or password protect image files (unless you use another format as a container).

>Cause a pdf is much more professional just because you open it in Adobe vs your photo gallery

Yes it is.

Are you having a bad day or something? Your comment is quite hostile to the point where it seems like you're just going out of your way to be unpleasant.

Some reading material for you. Being an ass is already annoying, but being an ass without even primary school level knowledge of the topic at hand is unacceptable.

PDF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics

Screenshot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics

See also: aspect ratio, custom print CSS, webpages that are longer than one screen height (all of them!)

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