Removing Header & Footer from Firefox 3.6.1 Printing

Here are some instructions on how to remove the header and footer while printing from Firefox 3.6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.

Type 'about:config' in the URL bar and hit Enter. You will see a warning about altering the browser configuration.

Acknowledge the warning and move on.

Filter using 'header.' Before modifying, you may want to take a screenshot of the existing values in case you want to add them back in the future. Alter the printing preferences associated with 'header' by right-clicking and selecting 'modify.' Remove the current values.

Repeat this process using 'footer.'

Now all printouts from within Firefox should be without the header and footer information.

Removing image borders in Impress

This was an issue I'd come across on several occasions, which I found to be highly annoying. Basically, when I inserted an image into a slide in Impress, it would appear with a light gray-scale border. Sometimes the border would appear when in slide edit mode, and other times it would only appear when in slideshow mode.

I found reference to a number of different possible resolutions on various forums. The fix that worked for me was to disable hardware-acceleration under Tools->Options->View.

I did all of this on Ubuntu 10.04 with Open Office 3.2.