(CLOSED) Cannot open locally stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
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(CLOSED) Cannot open locally stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
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 in this "url" in the address window
file:///home/bill/Documents/genki/2STARTHERE(ForMac&Linux).html
I have tried starting firefox in safemode, editing the file name to something less elaborate i.e. no brackets or spaces and using the "Local Filesystem Links plugin" to no avail. I booted my PC from an old Linux Format cd and launched Antix 17 where the the html "application" launched perfectly as it did from Peppermint 8 on the same cd. My "educated" guess is that as the version of firefox on my MX install is newer than the browsers on those two distro's, Firefox Version 64.0.2 has upped the security and will not allow "file///" html files to run?
Please can/will someone provide an answer as I have been trawling the web for one all day and the person I am trying to help has gone back to I.E./Edge (I thought Edge was a guitarist in U2?) on W10, another Linux convert fail!
system info. gleaned from MXTools quick system info attached in fred.txt., "amusingly" the file had .html in the file name and firefox wouldn't let me attach it as it was an html file.
Further to this I tried to use the inxi -h command as advised in the "System specs when asking for help" post, but only get inxi man page which shows no -h information?!?
file:///home/bill/Documents/genki/2STARTHERE(ForMac&Linux).html
I have tried starting firefox in safemode, editing the file name to something less elaborate i.e. no brackets or spaces and using the "Local Filesystem Links plugin" to no avail. I booted my PC from an old Linux Format cd and launched Antix 17 where the the html "application" launched perfectly as it did from Peppermint 8 on the same cd. My "educated" guess is that as the version of firefox on my MX install is newer than the browsers on those two distro's, Firefox Version 64.0.2 has upped the security and will not allow "file///" html files to run?
Please can/will someone provide an answer as I have been trawling the web for one all day and the person I am trying to help has gone back to I.E./Edge (I thought Edge was a guitarist in U2?) on W10, another Linux convert fail!
system info. gleaned from MXTools quick system info attached in fred.txt., "amusingly" the file had .html in the file name and firefox wouldn't let me attach it as it was an html file.
Further to this I tried to use the inxi -h command as advised in the "System specs when asking for help" post, but only get inxi man page which shows no -h information?!?
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Last edited by IAMSOANGRY on Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:20 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Well, that's a bummer for sure.
Starting with, inxi -h in a user console, I get:
Makes me wonder if maybe you got a bad download.
Did the MD5SUM check OK?
Can you open the *.html in Thunar?
Starting with, inxi -h in a user console, I get:
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$ inxi -h
inxi supports the following options. You can combine these or list them one by one. For more detailed information, see
man inxi. Examples: inxi -v4 -c6 OR inxi -bDc 6. If you start inxi with no arguments, it will display a short system summary.
The following options, if used without -F, -b, or -v, will show option line(s): A, B, C, D, G, I, M, N, P, R, S, W, d, f, i, l,
m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, w, --slots, --usb - you can use these alone or together to show just the line(s) you want to see. If
you use them with -v [level], -b or -F, inxi will combine the outputs.
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Output Control Options:
-a, --admin Adds advanced sys admin data (only works with verbose or line output, not short form):
-C If available: CPU vulnerabilities (bugs); family, model-id, stepping - format: hex (decimal) if
greater than 9, otherwise hex; microcode - format: hex.
-d If available: logical and physical block sizes.
-p,-P If available: raw size of partition, percent available for user, block size of file system (root
required); for swap, shows swapiness and vfs cache pressure, and if values are default or not.
-A, --audio Audio/sound card(s), driver, sound server.
-b, --basic Basic output, short form. Same as inxi -v 2.
-B, --battery System battery info, including charge and condition, plus extra info (if battery present).
-c, --color Set color scheme (0-42). For piped or redirected output, you must use an explicit color selector.
Example: inxi -c 11
Color selectors let you set the config file value for the selection (NOTE: IRC and global only show safe
color set)
94 Console, out of X
95 Terminal, running in X - like xTerm
96 Gui IRC, running in X - like Xchat, Quassel, Konversation etc.
97 Console IRC running in X - like irssi in xTerm
98 Console IRC not in X
99 Global - Overrides/removes all settings. Setting specific removes global.
-C, --cpu CPU output, including per CPU clock speed and max CPU speed (if available).
-d, --disk-full, --optical
Optical drive data (and floppy disks, if present). Triggers -D.
-D, --disk Hard Disk info, including total storage and details for each disk. Disk total used percentage includes
swap partition size(s).
-f, --flags All CPU flags. Triggers -C. Not shown with -F to avoid spamming.
-F, --full Full output. Includes all Upper Case line letters except -W, plus -s and -n. Does not show extra verbose
options such as -d -f -i -l -m -o -p -r -t -u -x, unless specified.
-G, --graphics Graphics info (card(s), driver, display protocol (if available), display server, resolution, renderer,
OpenGL version).
-i, --ip WAN IP address and local interfaces (requires ifconfig or ip network tool). Triggers -n. Not shown with
-F for user security reasons. You shouldn't paste your local/WAN IP.
-I, --info General info, including processes, uptime, memory, IRC client or shell type, inxi version.
-l, --label Partition labels. Triggers -P. For full -p output, use -pl.
-m, --memory Memory (RAM) data. Requires root. Numbers of devices (slots) supported and individual memory devices
(sticks of memory etc). For devices, shows device locator, size, speed, type (e.g. DDR3). If neither -I
nor -tm are selected, also shows RAM used/total.
-M, --machine Machine data. Device type (desktop, server, laptop, VM etc.), motherboard, BIOS and, if present, system
builder (e.g. Lenovo). Shows UEFI/BIOS/UEFI [Legacy]. Older systems/kernels without the required /sys
data can use dmidecode instead, run as root. Dmidecode can be forced with --dmidecode
-n, --network-advanced
Advanced Network card info. Triggers -N. Shows interface, speed, MAC id, state, etc.
-N, --network Network card(s), driver.
-o, --unmounted Unmounted partition info (includes UUID and Label if available). Shows file system type if you have lsblk
installed (Linux) or, for BSD/GNU Linux, if 'file' installed and you are root or if you have added to
/etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer).
Example: <username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/file
-p, --partitions-full
Full partition information (-P plus all other detected partitions).
-P, --partitions Basic partition info. Shows, if detected: / /boot /home /opt /tmp /usr /usr/home /var /var/log /var/tmp.
Use -p to see all mounted partitions.
-r, --repos Distro repository data. Supported repo types: APK, APT, EOPKG, PACMAN, PACMAN-G2, PISI, PORTAGE, PORTS
(BSDs), SLACKPKG, TCE, URPMQ, XBPS, YUM/ZYPP.
-R, --raid RAID data. Shows RAID devices, states, levels, and components. md-raid: If device is resyncing, also
shows resync progress line.
-s, --sensors Sensors output (if sensors installed/configured): mobo/CPU/GPU temp; detected fan speeds. GPU temp only
for Fglrx/Nvidia drivers. Nvidia shows screen number for > 1 screen. IPMI sensors if present.
--slots PCI slots: type, speed, status. Requires root.
-S, --system System info: host name, kernel, desktop environment (if in X/Wayland), distro.
-t, --processes Processes. Requires extra options: c (CPU), m (memory), cm (CPU+memory). If followed by numbers 1-x,
shows that number of processes for each type (default: 5; if in IRC, max: 5).
Make sure that there is no space between letters and numbers (e.g. -t cm10).
--usb Show USB data: Hubs and Devices.
-u, --uuid Partition UUIDs. Triggers -P. For full -p output, use -pu.
-v, --verbosity Set inxi verbosity level (0-8). Should not be used with -b or -F. Example: inxi -v 4
0 Same as: inxi
1 Basic verbose, -S + basic CPU + -G + basic Disk + -I.
2 Networking card (-N), Machine (-M), Battery (-B; if present), and, if present, basic RAID (devices
only; notes if inactive). Same as inxi -b
3 Advanced CPU (-C), battery (-B), network (-n); triggers -x.
4 Partition size/used data (-P) for (if present) /, /home, /var/, /boot. Shows full disk data (-D).
5 Audio card (-A), sensors (-s), memory/RAM (-m), partition label (-l), UUID (-u), short form of
optical drives, standard RAID data (-R).
6 Full partition (-p), unmounted partition (-o), optical drive (-d), USB (--usb), full RAID;
triggers -xx.
7 Network IP data (-i); triggers -xxx.
8 Everything available, including repos (-r), processes (-tcm), PCI slots (--slots).
-w, --weather Local weather data/time. To check an alternate location, see -W.
-W, --weather-location
[location] Supported options for [location]: postal code; city, state/country; latitude, longitude. Only
use if you want the weather somewhere other than the machine running inxi. Use only ASCII characters,
replace spaces in city/state/country names with '+'. Example: inxi -W new+york,ny
--weather-unit Set weather units to metric (m), imperial (i), metric/imperial (mi), or imperial/metric (im).
-x, --extra Adds the following extra data (only works with verbose or line output, not short form):
-A Specific vendor/product information (if relevant); PCI Bus ID/USB ID number of card;
Version/port(s)/driver version (if available).
-B Vendor/model, status (if available); attached devices (e.g. wireless mouse, keyboard, if present).
-C CPU flags, Bogomips on CPU; CPU microarchitecture + revision (if found, or unless --admin, then
shows as 'stepping').
-d Extra optical drive features data; adds rev version to optical drive.
-D HDD temp with disk data if you have hddtemp installed, if you are root, or if you have added to
/etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer). Example: <username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp
-G Specific vendor/product information (if relevant); PCI Bus ID/USB ID number of card; Direct
rendering status (in X); Screen number GPU is running on (Nvidia only).
-i For IPv6, show additional scope addresses: Global, Site, Temporary, Unknown. See --limit for large
counts of IP addresses.
-I Default system GCC. With -xx, also shows other installed GCC versions. If running in shell, not in
IRC client, shows shell version number, if detected. Init/RC type and runlevel (if available).
-m Max memory module size (if available), device type.
-N Specific vendor/product information (if relevant); PCI Bus ID/USB ID number of card;
Version/port(s)/driver version (if available).
-R md-raid: second RAID Info line with extra data: blocks, chunk size, bitmap (if present). Resync
line, shows blocks synced/total blocks. Hardware RAID driver version, bus ID.
-s Basic voltages (ipmi, lm-sensors if present): 12v, 5v, 3.3v, vbat.
-S Kernel gcc version; system base of distro (if relevant and detected)
-t Adds memory use output to CPU (-xt c), and CPU use to memory (-xt m).
--usb For Device: driver.
-w -W Wind speed and direction, humidity, pressure, and (-w only) time zone.
-xx, --extra 2 Show extra, extra data (only works with verbose or line output, not short form):
-A Chip vendor:product ID for each audio device.
-B Serial number, voltage now/minimum (if available).
-C L1/L3 cache (if root and dmidecode installed).
-D Disk transfer speed; NVMe lanes; Disk serial number.
-G Chip vendor:product ID for each video card; OpenGL compatibility version, if free drivers and
available; compositor (experimental); alternate Xorg drivers (if available). Alternate means
driver is on automatic driver check list of Xorg for the card vendor, but is not installed on
system.
-I Other detected installed gcc versions (if present). System default runlevel. Adds parent program
(or tty) for shell info if not in IRC. Adds Init version number, RC (if found).
-m Manufacturer, part number; single/double bank (if found).
-M Chassis info, BIOS ROM size (dmidecode only), if available.
-N Chip vendor:product ID.
-R md-raid: Superblock (if present), algorithm. If resync, shows progress bar. Hardware RAID Chip
vendor:product ID.
-s DIMM/SOC voltages (ipmi only).
-S Display manager (dm) in desktop output (e.g. kdm, gdm3, lightdm); active window manager if
detected; desktop toolkit, if available (Xfce/KDE/Trinity only).
--slots Slot length.
--usb Vendor:chip ID.
-w -W Wind chill, dew point, heat index, if available.
-xxx, --extra 3 Show extra, extra, extra data (only works with verbose or line output, not short form):
-A Serial number.
-B Chemistry, cycles, location (if available).
-C CPU boost (turbo) enabled/disabled, if present.
-D Firmware rev. if available; partition scheme, in some cases; disk rotation speed (if detected).
-G Compositor version (if detectable).
-I For 'Shell:' adds ([su|sudo|login]) to shell name if present; for 'running in:' adds (SSH) if SSH
session.
-m Width of memory bus, data and total (if present and greater than data); Detail for Type, if
present; module voltage, if available; serial number.
-N Serial number.
-R zfs-raid: portion allocated (used) by RAID devices/arrays. md-raid: system md-raid support types
(kernel support, read ahead, RAID events). Hardware RAID rev, ports, specific vendor/product
information.
-S Panel/tray/bar/dock info in desktop output, if in X (like lxpanel, xfce4-panel, mate-panel); (if
available) dm version number, window manager version number.
--usb For Device: serial number (if present), interface count; USB speed.
-w -W Location (uses -z/irc filter), weather observation time, altitude (shows extra lines for data
where relevant).
-y, --width Output line width max (integer >= 80). Overrides IRC/Terminal settings or actual widths.
Example: inxi -y 130
-z, --filter Adds security filters for IP/MAC addresses, serial numbers, location (-w), user home directory name.
Default on for IRC clients.
-Z, --filter-override
Absolute override for output filters. Useful for debugging networking issues in IRC, for example.
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Additional Options:
-h, --help This help menu.
--recommends Checks inxi application dependencies + recommends, and directories, then shows what package(s) you need
to install to add support for that feature.
-V, --version Prints inxi version info then exits.
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Advanced Options:
--alt Trigger for various advanced options:
40 Bypass Perl as a downloader option.
41 Bypass Curl as a downloader option.
42 Bypass Fetch as a downloader option.
43 Bypass Wget as a downloader option.
44 Bypass Curl, Fetch, and Wget as downloader options. Forces Perl if HTTP::Tiny present.
--display [:[0-9]] Try to get display data out of X (default: display 0).
--dmidecode Force use of dmidecode data instead of /sys where relevant (e.g. -M, -B).
--downloader Force inxi to use [curl|fetch|perl|wget] for downloads.
--host Turn on hostname for -S.
--indent-min Set point where inxi autowraps line starters.
--limit [-1; 1-x] Set max output limit of IP addresses for -i (default 10; -1 removes limit).
--no-host Turn off hostname for -S. Useful if showing output from servers etc.
--no-ssl Skip SSL certificate checks for all downloader actions (Wget/Fetch/Curl only).
--output [json|screen|xml] Change data output type. Requires --output-file if not screen.
--output-file [Full filepath|print] Output file to be used for --output.
--partition-sort [dev-base|fs|id|label|percent-used|size|uuid|used] Change sort order of partition output. See man page
for specifics.
--sleep [0-x.x] Change CPU sleep time, in seconds, for -C (default: 0.35). Allows system to catch up and show a
more accurate CPU use. Example: inxi -Cxxx --sleep 0.15
--tty Forces irc flag to false. Useful for running Ansible or Chef. Must use -y [width] option if you want a
specific output width. Always put this option first in an option list.
--usb-sys Force USB data to use /sys as data source (Linux only).
--usb-tool Force USB data to use lsusb as data source (Linux only).
--wm Force wm: to use wmctrl as data source. Default uses ps.
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Debugging Options:
--debug Triggers debugging modes.
1-3 On screen debugger output.
10 Basic logging.
11 Full file/system info logging.
The following create a tar.gz file of system data, plus inxi output. To automatically upload debugger
data tar.gz file to ftp.techpatterns.com: inxi --debug 21
20 Full system data collection: /sys; xorg conf and log data, xrandr, xprop, xdpyinfo, glxinfo etc.;
data from dev, disks, partitions, etc.
21 Upload debugger dataset to inxi debugger server automatically, removes debugger data directory,
leaves tar.gz debugger file.
22 Upload debugger dataset to inxi debugger server automatically, removes debugger data directory and
debugger tar.gz file.
--debug-proc Force debugger parsing of /proc as sudo/root.
--debug-proc-print
To locate file that /proc debugger hangs on.
--debug-no-exit Skip exit on error to allow completion.
--debug-no-proc Skip /proc debugging in case of a hang.
--debug-no-sys Skip /sys debugging in case of a hang.
--debug-sys Force PowerPC debugger parsing of /sys as sudo/root.
--debug-sys-print
To locate file that /sys debugger hangs on.
--ftp Use with --debugger 21 to trigger an alternate FTP server for upload. Format: [ftp.xx.xx/yy]. Must
include a remote directory to upload to. Example: inxi --debug 21 --ftp ftp.myserver.com/incoming
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Did the MD5SUM check OK?
Can you open the *.html in Thunar?
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Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Here's an info source: Users Manual, Section 3.8.10, "Default Applications"
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Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Hi,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
D'oh, inxi -h = inxi --help. Erm, please ignore my comment re inxi -h; please!
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 is an updated MX17 obtained by following D.O's guide to updating to MX18, so no md5 errors relevant in this instance.
An old version of antix17 with firefox and Peppermint8 (eugh Ubuntu) runs the .html file with no problems thus I assume the problem is to do with the browser version as I see the same problem with any of the browsers I install from the MX tools "Package Installer". Yes I know, never assume, always check.
Thanks again.
Thanks for your prompt reply.
D'oh, inxi -h = inxi --help. Erm, please ignore my comment re inxi -h; please!
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 is an updated MX17 obtained by following D.O's guide to updating to MX18, so no md5 errors relevant in this instance.
An old version of antix17 with firefox and Peppermint8 (eugh Ubuntu) runs the .html file with no problems thus I assume the problem is to do with the browser version as I see the same problem with any of the browsers I install from the MX tools "Package Installer". Yes I know, never assume, always check.
Thanks again.
Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
Did you follow the iinstructions I linked to?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.
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Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
antiX ships with firefox-esr. Can you install that on MX and give it a try?
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Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
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 browser, don't know if it helps?
The url has file/// then the path to the file. It doesn't matter which locally stored .html file I use I only see the screen above. Whilst browsing the web re. this problem I read that there should be five forward slashes not three, but failed to understand the relevance, not saying it is irrelevant but that I don't understand the relevance. Now I'm rambling sorry.
Thanks.
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 browser, don't know if it helps?
The url has file/// then the path to the file. It doesn't matter which locally stored .html file I use I only see the screen above. Whilst browsing the web re. this problem I read that there should be five forward slashes not three, but failed to understand the relevance, not saying it is irrelevant but that I don't understand the relevance. Now I'm rambling sorry.
Thanks.
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Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
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 would not load any .html file.
This means, I think, that a security enhancement to Firefox based (and Chrome) browsers will not allow locally stored .html files to be loaded. As I said I browsed Mozilla Firefox support pages and the only suggestions were to run in safe mode or to install the local-file extension, neither of which made any difference.
Am I the only person "enjoying" this "feature" of Firefox? I know that it is not an MX issue but I had rather hoped that someone on the forum may have bumped heads with this browser issue and been able to resolve it.
Thanks
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 would not load any .html file.
This means, I think, that a security enhancement to Firefox based (and Chrome) browsers will not allow locally stored .html files to be loaded. As I said I browsed Mozilla Firefox support pages and the only suggestions were to run in safe mode or to install the local-file extension, neither of which made any difference.
Am I the only person "enjoying" this "feature" of Firefox? I know that it is not an MX issue but I had rather hoped that someone on the forum may have bumped heads with this browser issue and been able to resolve it.
Thanks
Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
For the second time: did you try changing the Preferred Application type for html files? I'll paste it out of the Users Manual if that helps:
Many defaults for specific file types are set during an application’s installation. But often multiple options exist for a given file type, and a user would like to determine which application would launch the file—such as the music player to open an *.mp3 file. A simple method exists to make that change.
• Right-click any example of the file type you are interested in
• Make one of the following selections:
• Open with <listed application>. This will open the file with the selected application for this particular instance, but will not affect the default application.
• Open with Other Application. Scroll down the list to highlight the one you want (including “Use a custom command”), then check Open. The box at the bottom “Use as default for this kind of file” is unchecked by default, so check it if you want your selection to become the new default application that is launched when you click on any file of that particular type. Keep it unchecked for one-time usage.
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Re: Cannot open loaclly stored .html files in Firefox Version 64.0.2
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 have installed from the MX tools package installer. they all come up the same". Is there another application apart from a web browser that will open .html files? I hope that is not a stupid question!
I further explained to anticapitalista what else I have found in post #8
Thanks for your help with this.
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 have installed from the MX tools package installer. they all come up the same". Is there another application apart from a web browser that will open .html files? I hope that is not a stupid question!
I further explained to anticapitalista what else I have found in post #8
Thanks for your help with this.