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Hi. The above lap top is available very cheaply on Amazon, almost too good a price to be true in fact (so it probably isn't)! Before I "invest" several hundred Euros in it I want to be sure that MX (or any othe Linux disto') will run on it but it seems there are few references to it on the ...

I have closed this post. The problem was "worked around" by using an older version of firefox, sorry I cannot recall which version. This was not really a viable/secure outcome and sadly the person I was trying to help went back to W10 as there was no problem using the MS browser! What a failure I am ...

Hi Jerry 3904,
Sorry if I am frustrating you, but I thought that I had answered that question in a previous post (#7) where I wrote:-

"Sorry, I missed your post re. default app's, .html files are set to open with firefox by default. I have tried setting .html files to open with whatever browser I ...

Thanks PPC, I have downloaded your .gz file and will give this a go.
Here's to many happy hours fiddling!

Hi,
As suggested by anticapitalista, I loaded Firefox-esr 60.4.0esr, but still cannot open any .html files in that browser.

I then ran antiX from a live CD and .html files loaded with no issues in Firefox-esr 54.4.0esr. Following an update to the live antiX, Firefox-esr 60.4.0esr was installed and ...

Hi,
Sorry, I missed your post re. default app's. .html files are set to open with firefox by default. I have tried setting .html files to open with whatever browser I have installed from the MX tools package installer. they all come up the same.
I have added a screenshot of what I see on the ...

Hi,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

D'oh, inxi -h = inxi --help. Erm, please ignore my comment re inxi -h; please! :bagoverhead:

Opening the .html file in Thunar opens that file in Firefox where I see the page I described, i.e. just a yellow browser window with the text "MENU" in the tab.

My MX18 ...

I am unable to open locally stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2 . When I try to open (e.g.) /home/bill/Documents/genki/2 START HERE (for mac and linux).html with firefox, or Chromium or Chrome, the text "MENU" is shown in the tab and only a yellow backgound in the browser window. I see this ...

The man with the Dell Mini 9, he says yes!!!!!