I'm thrilled to announce the public release of Mozilla Kiosk, developed
jointly by Brooklyn Museum and Mozdev Group. Mozilla Kiosk is an
extension to the Mozilla web browser that enables a secure kiosk mode.
Although it may not be clear in the docs, this is a GPL release of the
software and you can use and distribute the software as you would any
other GPL-licensed code. Find the extension, a small related dependency,
and a description of the features of Mozilla Kiosk at
http://www.mozdevgroup.com/clients/bm/
(one day this will be an official Mozilla extension, available in the
official extensions area, but that process takes a while). We developed
Mozilla Kiosk because there's no other really good kiosk browser, and
everything we do, we do in a browser. Mozilla Kiosk, I can say
confidently, is the best, most useful kiosk-mode browser available
today. We already use it in many, many places, such as
1) actual gallery kiosks
2) learning center computers
3) library web terminals
4) terminal server sessions
(basically, anywhere that's anonymous, public, semi-public, and/or
shared, or that requires special security precautions).
The easy way to try it is to
a) install Mozilla (1.7 or newer)
b) click on the links on the above page to install the two extensions
you need.
So try it out and let me know what you think!
Thanks,
Matt Morgan
Manager of Information Systems
Brooklyn Museum
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