Firefox allows the printing of PROTECTED files on my server. WHY?

ALL other browsers RESPECT the fact that a PDF file is password protected and does NOT allow this file to be printed. Fire Fox violates this rule and let's internet users simply by pass the protection and print the files. That really SUCKS! This should be fixed to comply with common practices. Will this be fixed?

I am not sure where this is best discussed. One of the developers mailing lists possibly.
* http://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/#general-development
'''You certainly will not get developer's attention on this support forum. '''
I doubt any bug filed will gain traction without prior discussion & agreement from developers. The wider subjects of copyright protection are also offtopic here but of course the problem is not just copying pdfs there is much other media that has copy protection and there are often methods of circumventing that. <br />
Even your current issue is probably not unique to Firefox. What is your site ? can you post a test file ? I imagine I will have no problem obtaining the same files with alternative browsers.
In any event there is a <s>there is</s> a currently open bug and anything filed is likely to be quickly closed as a duplicate of that. Bugs are for developers to work from and not for discussion of the bug merits.
*See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792816#c12 Bug 792816 - pdf.js doesn't respect document permissions ]
From that comment it would appear the responsible developer is Asa Dotzler and perhaps it may be appropriate to politely enquire in one of his [http://asadotzler.com/2014/02/11/netiquette/ blogs] where this matter is being discussed
Another suggestion put your protected files behind a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paywall paywall] or at least a login for identifiable known subscribers.

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