Hi,

you could use CDE (Obsolete) instead of the JDS kiosk and startup firefox
from there.
You still need to harden firefox to be a real kiosk; there are some howto's
available on that, because you would still be able to open, file in firefox
and browse your local fs.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Antony Healey <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
>
>
> I’ve been using the Kiosk mode with the only application (as ‘Critical’)
> being Firefox. To my mind, this should mean that Firefox is the only thing
> the user can see/use.
>
>
>
> Yet we’ve discovered that if you “right-click” on the Orange menu button,
> you can open up a floating menu and “Browse” is available. You can then
> browse the local file system.
>
>
>
> That hardly qualifies as ‘kiosk’ in my mind. Can anyone recommend an easy
> way to prevent this from happening, is there a place to turn this off for
> all kiosk-mode users?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antony.
>
>
>
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