Mitch,

Thanks for the prompt response. This question came to the K-Meleon
project from a user who wanted to allow access to the location bar but
needed to block access to the hard drive. Since you can allow/disallow
all menus, menu items, tool and menu bars, toolbar buttons and
short-cut keys in K-Meleon, you can easily create a "kiosk mode".
However, it sounds like disabling the location bar wasn't an option
for that user.

Just out of curiousity, how does Mozilla handle links to the hard
drive from a web page? If someone created a link to C:\ on a web page
or called it with Javascript, how does the browser handle that?

Andrew

Mitchell Stoltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> No, currently there are no security controls on the browser location 
> bar, so there's no way to set restrictions on what can be done from the 
> location bar using prefs. Our focus to this point has been restricting 
> what code from the Web can do, not what users can do. I guess you're 
> running some sort of kiosk and you want to restrict what pages can be 
> accessed. We don't have a secure "kiosk mode" yet that would allow this 
> sort of thing. What you can do is to hide the location bar completely.
>       -Mitch
> 
> Andrew Mutch wrote:
> 
> > Is there a security preference that would allow you to block users
> > from accessing the local hard drive through the browser location bar?
> > I saw some previous threads discussing this need but never any
> > resolution on this.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Andrew Mutch
> >

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