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Missing "Print Preview" on File menu after upgrading to a new laptop

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I recently upgraded from a Dell XPS laptop to a Dell XPS Inspiron laptop and had my old laptop cloned to the new one. There's been only one change noted when using the new laptop -- whenever I have Firefox open, and want to print the page displayed, the File menu no longer offers the option "Print Preview", which I used all the time on my old laptop. Any idea why it's disappeared, and how to get it back? Thanks.

I recently upgraded from a Dell XPS laptop to a Dell XPS Inspiron laptop and had my old laptop cloned to the new one. There's been only one change noted when using the new laptop -- whenever I have Firefox open, and want to print the page displayed, the File menu no longer offers the option "Print Preview", which I used all the time on my old laptop. Any idea why it's disappeared, and how to get it back? Thanks.

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When you print in Firefox it should now always opens a print preview first. (If you select `File -> Print`, does the preview work for you?) Since `File -> Print` should now open a preview, the `File -> Print Preview` menu item was redundant and was removed.

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Thanks for replying, Jonathan. When using the "Print" option on the File menu, it gives me a smaller pop-up window that does not display most screens (i.e., Ancestry document images, and others), and does not offer the editing options (like "Simplify Page") that I had using the "Print Preview" option (which also gave me a full-size window to work in).

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I would suggest you remove the "Print" option and return the old "Print Preview" option instead. It was MUCH better.

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Jonathan, I've also noted that the duplex feature isn't working right either. The front page comes out OK, but the back page is upside-down. It's never done that before. Can you fix that, please, ASAP? Thank you.