When printing in Firefox you can add stuff to the headers and footers. Right now it only lets you choose from:
–Title
–Document URL
–Date/Time
–Page Number
–Page number “of” Page Total
It would be great if Firefox allowed custom fields. Sometimes I’ll make a ton of printouts about a particular Bible verse, and I would like to have the Bible Verse reference in the header. So every printout would have “Romans 8:28” printed. That way it’s much easier to file later on.
But the print.print_headercenter variable in the about:config file only allows for the five variables mentioned above. And there’s no extension that allows Firefox to add custom fields for the header or footer when printing. If anyone knows of help, please leave it in the comments. Thanks.
you know that you can go to Page Setup and set a “custom…” field for the print header, right? probably your best bet would be to put together a simple extension to set this value using a right-click option on the page, which would initiate a javascript prompt to take the input…
Thanks Tom for your help. I just checked out a PC version of Firefox, and the “custom…” field shows up just fine. It does not show up on a Mac. Blasted!
Although it makes me curious why “custom…” does not show up as a variable for the header and footer variables in the Documented Preferences that explain the about:config.
I also just posted something on the mozillazine forum about this.