Firefox never suggests printing with my default printer

I'm using Windows 7. I've set my HP OfficeJet Pro printer as my default printer in Windows. However when attempting to printing a document from within Firefox, Firefox always suggests my PDF printer.
It's not difficult to select the correct printer, but I'm wondering why Firefox doesn't behave the way my other programs (Office, etc.) do when printing.

Never seen that before - posting code that shows this behaviour would be handy.
My guess would be that you have an errant VI.Print.Panel to Printer method hanging around somewhere in your code.
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