{"id":94,"date":"2011-05-17T03:33:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T03:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalchild.info\/?p=94"},"modified":"2011-05-17T03:33:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T03:33:43","slug":"browser-kiosk-mode-in-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomadult.local\/browser-kiosk-mode-in-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Browser Kiosk Mode in OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years supporting Apple&#8217;s OS X the question has come up at least a couple of times a year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do I enable browser kiosk mode in my browser?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There have been several solutions over the years the first I came across was the\u00a0<a title=\"Saft Plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/haoli.dnsalias.com\/Saft\/index.html\">saft plugin for safari<\/a>. This is a paid plugin and five years ago it was pretty good for what it was. Since then the amount of browsers available for os x has increased. If you&#8217;re writing an application for OS X <a title=\"Kiosk Mode ADC\" href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/mac\/technotes\/tn2002\/tn2062.html\">Apple has kindly provided the system calls<\/a> to enable this in your application. The closest you can get in Firefox is Fullscreen mode which can disable the dock and a few other things, but you have to modify a plist file to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Along came <a title=\"Opera Browser\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\">Opera<\/a> who out of all the browsers have done it the right way, and provided a Kiosk Mode for\u00a0Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kiosk Mode\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/support\/mastering\/kiosk\/\">Opera Kiosk Mode<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great you say, well actually its fantastic. Because of the supplied system calls Apple has provided, Opera Kiosk Mode on OS X is able to really lock down the machine. So they can&#8217;t escape, see the menu bar, the dock, force quit, download and whole range of other things. You can see all options on the link above.<\/p>\n<p>With the combination of a limited account and kiosk mode you can be sure to know that you&#8217;ve got a machine that you could use at a conference or trade show for a newsletter signup or displaying your company\/institutions website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years supporting Apple&#8217;s OS X the question has come up at least a couple of times a year. How do I enable browser kiosk mode in my browser? There have been several solutions over the years the first I came across was the\u00a0saft plugin for safari. 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