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First of all, Merry Christmas.

I have observed, but not investigated why, Firefox (and Netscape and Mozilla before it) wouldn't print page headers and footers on my Linux machine. I have always thought the browser will print headers and footers on Windows but not on Linux. It's been that way for ever.

Then last week, I did a print preview and saw page headers and footers. I realized that my printer margin settings must be wrong. Sure enough, in my printer properties dialog, the Gap from edge of paper to margin was set to 0.04 inch:

That puts the headers and footers into the printer's non-printing area. Changing the gaps to 0.2 inch at the top and the bottom, and 0.25 inch on the left and the right, fixed my problem:

I've been copying my ~/.mozilla directory from computer to computer every time I upgraded I don't know for sure if the wrong gaps were the default settings for modern day Firefox on UNIX machines or if it was just my personal configuration from a long time ago that endured all the upgrades. What does your Firefox do?

At any rate, I'm glad I fixed it.