Firefox hangs occassionaly when trying to print a web page

I am running Windows XP and Firefox version 3.6.8. Occasionally when I select print on the file menu to print the current web page, Firefox hangs as soon as click the OK button on the print dialog box. The printer is connected to my local network and other apps can print to it. Sometimes after a long wait (5 mins or more), the operation will complete and Firefox unhangs. Other times it never recovers and I have to end Firefox and restart it.
== This happened ==
A few times a week
== I don't remember exactly - could be a year or so.

Wow! After several different attempts to solve my printing problems , the one that worked was the suggestion that I hit "Reset Firefox" button on the Troubleshooting Information page. Once I did that and got back in I was able to print pages correctly. Thank you for all your help and patience.
-Eric

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