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Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:25 am
by anticapitalista
How about installing a known working version from here.
https://snapshot.debian.org/package/firefox-esr/
Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:39 am
by Jerry3904
Is there another application apart from a web browser that will open .html files? I hope that is not a stupid question!
There are editors, but that is not what you want.
I don't understand why changing the default application doesn't work for you. It does here with MX.17/18.
1) Can you post the contents of the file
~/.config/mimeapps.list
2) If you create a new user, and make the change in default app for html, does it work then?
Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:11 pm
by anticapitalista
IAMSOANGRY wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:13 am
Is there another application apart from a web browser that will open .html files?
mx-viewer
Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 2:36 pm
by fehlix
Please try this:
Open Firefox Profile Manager:
Close all running firefox window.
Press [Alt]+[F2] ( i.e. hold left [Alt]-key and hit [F2]-key ) type in the field shown:
Within the now opened Firefox-Profile Manager click on "Create Profile"
Enter a new profile name, e.g. "vanilla"
Tick off "Use the selected profile without asking at startup"
firefox-profile-manager.png
Click on Start Firefox to open firefox with this just freshly created profile.
Now try to open an example html file for testing within "vanilla" firefox
by "Open File" (Key-shortcut: [Ctrl]-O).
E.g. you can use this html-file:
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file:///usr/share/doc/libgnomevfs2-common/html/index.html
If this html file (or any other html-file) will open in this new "vanilla"
firefox-profile, it might indicate that your other existing "default" firefox profile
is broken.
Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 3:13 pm
by Richard
Don't know if the OP is still reading this thread,
but it seems to me that his upgraded MX17.1->MX18
is broken, for sure with Firefox.
Like others, I have Firefox v64.0.2 (64-bit) and it opens
html files where-ever they happen to be.
Only time I've had problems is forgetting about NoScript.
Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 3:34 pm
by Stevo
Yup, the theory that 64.0.2 has disabled it is so easily tested.
no doubt you have some installed as part of package help files
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firefox <entire path of one of those results>
Theory disproven.
Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:19 am
by IAMSOANGRY
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
