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Printing from Google web apps (Docs, Sheets, etc) saves to PDF instead of opening print dialog

See original GitHub issue

Test plan

See https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/2342

Description

Haven’t run into this on any other sites, but when trying to print from Google Docs, Sheets, Slides ,etc, Brave offers to save this file as a PDF, rather than open the print dialog as expected. This happens with Shields up or down and can reproduced on Linux, macOS and Windows 10.

Steps to Reproduce

Visit google Sheets or any google app in Brave
Try to print sheet content to a home or office printer (or at all)
Follow the in-browser dialog, click Next

Actual result/Expected

Brave tries to save content as PDF//Should launch print system dialog print

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Happens on all Brave release channels v0.60.48 v0.61.13 v0.63.4

Website problems only:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? No
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? No

Additional Information

2 users reporting: https://community.brave.com/t/brave-browser-problem-google-sheets-internal-print-function-instead-of-opening-printer-downloads-sheet-automatically-as-pdf-bug/33193

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

andrew-pylecommented, Sep 8, 2020

Brave user here. I have been printing successfully from Google Sheets in Brave in past months, but today, this issue seems to be happening again.

Instead of opening the Print dialog window, after the Next button, I get a PDF save automatically. Maybe Chromium has made some changes here?

Brave requested this URL after clicking the Next button: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/{id-omitted here}/pdf?id={id-omitted here}.

Clicking this button usually brings up the chrome print dialog.

Mentioning @simonhong because he troubleshot this problem successfully last year.

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SneakyLeifcommented, Sep 28, 2020

I’m running into the same exact issue. The only way to print a Google Sheets doc to a printer is to first export as PDF, and then print the PDF. Printing the PDF works fine in Brave, though! Very annoying.

Brave version: Version 1.14.84 Chromium: 85.0.4183.121 (Official Build) (64-bit)