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[Daniel Holbert <dholbert+launchpad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan: thanks -- so presumably there's something "stuck" in your Firefox profile that's making you default to Postscript.  If possible, it'd be helpful if you could isolate whatever's doing that by doing something like the following:
  (1) backup your profile (tar czvf  ~/backup.tar.gz ~/.mozilla/firefox/[your_profile_folder])
  (2) extract that backup to a temporary directory
  (3) delete chunks out of that temporary directory until you've isolated the file (or piece of the file) that triggers the bug.

(I'm guessing it's a line in "prefs.js" that's responsible, but I can't
be sure)

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Title:
  Printing to PDF/PS/SVG defaults to a hidden (.name) filename

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Confirmed
Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
  New
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Fix Committed
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  When one prints to PDF/PS/SVG from Firefox, the filename defaults to
  ".pdf" or ".ps" or ".svg"

  These filenames are hidden by default by in GNOME and it is my opinion that this is a bad practice.
  If one forgets to specify a filename then the file is hidden in the user's home directory.  This could potentially be very confusing for a new user to Linux, Ubuntu, or GNOME.  Even I spent a while looking for a file I printed that I had forgotten to specify a filename for.  If it is possible, I would like to see a default filename of "[Window_Title].pdf" or at least "output.pdf"
  Might this be suitable for inclusion in the current round of paper cuts?

  I also checked the same dialog in Chromium and it defaulted to
  "output.pdf"

  Information
  Package: Firefox (though this may be more related to Nautilus if the 'Print to File' dialog is a Nautilus component)
  Version: firefox:
    Installed: 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
    Candidate: 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
    Version table:
   *** 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu6 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

  Expected operation: default non-hidden filename when printing to file
  Actual operation: default filename is a hidden file in GNOME

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