Chrome 11 stopped being able to print

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and Google Chrome. After upgrading from Chrome 10 to Chrome 11, the printing changed from opening the standard Gnome print dialogue to reopening the page in a browser with a sidebar with print settings.

The print button on that sidebar has never worked for me. If I press the button nothing happens. Printing in Chrome 10 worked fine. Has anyone else had this issue and found a workaround?

Answer 1

On the Windows Build of Chrome, Printing has not changed at all, but, I had the exact same issue you are having after going in to about:flags and enabling Print Preview.

After disabling this option, it went back to the bog standard print.

If you did not do this, let me know and I will delete my answer.

Answer 2

I did not know about that problem in Chrome. I may suggest you to use Chromium, the open-source browser which shares Chrome's code base. You can do that by installing the package chromium-browser. If you'd like a newer version, you can add chromium's daily build PPA to your system.

sudo apt-add repository ppa:chromium-daily/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra flashplugin-nonfree

Hope that helps, don't forget to remove Chrome before that (settings, bookmarks... are kept). I use these chromium builds everyday (chromium 13 now), it is really stable (except flash :). The printing dialog works for me.