pdf.js: Error: Permission denied to access property 'print'

Configuration:

Web browser and its version: all versions of Firefox since PDF.js was included (5+ years)
Operating system and its version: all
PDF.js version: all
Is a browser extension: n/a

Steps to reproduce the problem:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=911444

What is the expected behaviour? That the PDF can print as in every other browser than Firefox

What went wrong? Error: Permission denied to access property 'print'

Please fix this as the go to universal print solution of PDF in browser has been broken for 5 years in Firefox since pdf.js was included in Firefox.

The web developer community has hundreds of bad solutions to this, because of a single project, pdf.js.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 12
Comments: 41

Most upvoted comments

@dotnetCarpenter the icing on the cake is that, over a year ago, one of the developers complained that all of the +1 comments make it harder to see the technical discussion and therefore harder to resolve the bug. As if that’s why it’s been open for over 6 years and counting. Without the voting system, such comments are now the ONLY way to call attention to an issue, so I see no alternative.

adamt-ci on Feb 6, 2020

@swistak The good news is that this bug was fixed 1 month ago and will be in the next stable version of Firefox!

Firefox 87 should be release on 2021-03-23 - in just 13 days. You can download Firefox Developer Edition and begin testing at your work place now.

dotnetCarpenter on Mar 10, 2021

@vaspervnp The irony is that, that is the exact same Mozilla viewer embedded in Firefox!

We really need someone to change how pdf.js is embedded in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=911444#c58

dotnetCarpenter on Oct 9, 2019

Had the same issue using firefox. Solved it including the pdf into an iframe like this (the key is the way the pdf is linked):

`$(“.div_class”).html(‘<iframe id="frame_id"></iframe>’); $(‘#frame_id’) .attr(“src”, “path_to/PDFJS/web/viewer.html?file=path_to/file.pdf”) .on(“load”, function(){ setTimeout(printWhenReady, 3000); }); }

function printWhenReady(){ document.getElementById(frame_id).contentWindow.print(); }`

no, still SecurityError: Permission denied to access property "print" on cross-origin object error in firefox console

shmilyoo on Jul 23, 2019

Thanks @dotnetCarpenter, I have voted on Bugzilla 🐞

jtraulle on Nov 23, 2018

@Ugoku and @jtraulle Please vote on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=911444 to get it on the radar for Firefox developers.

dotnetCarpenter on Nov 23, 2018