I am working on a cross platform kiosk based packaged software. Thanks to my previous post here, I now have Firefox sending me a custom user-agent string so the server knows it is the kiosk browser. I now need to turn Firefox in to a kiosk browser. I have searched the web and found a number of different kiosk extensions, which is great. I believe there are two more features I am not seeing in the extensions that already exist:
1: Password protecting the closing of the browser. 2: Preventing the user from swapping to another application (<Alt> + <Tab> on Windows). As I stated above, this is a packaged solution. In other words, I am selling the software package to folks that don't know a ton about computers. I want to simplify things as much as possible for my customer (and me if it is possible). I want to distribute my own custom install for this kiosk browser. There are two reason: I don't want to have to worry about compatibility issues with all the different versions of Firefox, and I don't want to muck with the users Firefox, if they have one installed on the target machine. My first thought is that, in theory, it should be real simple to take the existing Firefox and simply tweak the install to my liking, installing one of the already existing kiosk plug-ins and using my own custom executable to launch as to resolve the two features lacking. Can anyone point me to documentation on how to tweak the install in such a fashion? If the first is not practical or possible, then I was thinking of possibly writing my own little kiosk system using XULRunner. Of course, I have a felling there is yet another, better options. I am all eyes for any suggestions and tips on how to do it. Cartoper _______________________________________________ dev-embedding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding
