Comments on: Open Kiosk for Firefox / XULRunner

By: brian

brian — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:48:24 +0000

I’m afraid not Johnny. There was not even a 1.5 version! I got to about 80% code complete and just did not have the time to continue. FYI, the source is up at http://openkiosk.mozdev.org

By: johnny benson

johnny benson — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:03:40 +0000

any news on a FF2.0 compatible version? :) *bats eyelashes*

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:33:33 +0000

Brian – I have a client who is interested in creating a firefox/xul based kiosk in their store. Well, they want a kiosk, and I’m looking for the best way to implement and I was pointed here by Jesse R.

If you need help with testing, input, or perhaps even a bounty let me know.

Regards,
Greg

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:17:01 +0000

I’d love to see this materialise on Firefox!

I just came across the Mozilla version when trying to find some way of making Firefox 1.5 into a solid, secure kiosk.

I’m currently using Firefox 1.0.7 with heavily modified jar files in the chrome directory which allows me to use Firefox as a secure kiosk on some PCs in a public foyer area of our building (I’ve disallowed downloading, removed all but the essential menu options from the toolbar, stopped it retaining history, cache etc.) Coupled with a Squid proxy with SquidGuard filtering urls/domains, I’ve got a solid setup at the mo. However, these modifications to the jar files don’t work in the new 1.5 version of Firefox, so I’d love to see something like the Mozilla Open Kiosk which I’ve just been testing – it seems great – better than the mods I’m using on Firefox 1.0.7. The Admin interface is superb. There’s no easy way to modify any settings using my setup without replacing the original chrome directory, firing up the browser, making the changes, then reapplying the modded version of the jar files…

Keep us posted – I’d be willing to test any alpha/beta/pre-release version you currently have running! Let me know, or make your unfinished version available, please!

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By: gd2shoe

gd2shoe — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:41:14 +0000

There is a kiosk section, and about half of the items there do not belong. The big missing piece is being able to open firefox in fullscreen mode automatically (the full screen extention only adds a button, I don’t think it can be configured for automation).

I would also like to see this developed for firefox.

By: brian

brian — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:58:10 +0000

Aaron: There is a Kiosk Browsing category on Mozilla Update.

Firefox Kiosk Browsing

However, it seems like some of the extensions don’t belong there, and others don’t have as many features as the OpenKiosk. I may be wrong, because I haven’t tried them.

By: Aaron Cirillo

Aaron Cirillo — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:50:24 +0000

Brian,

It is great to hear that you are working on porting this project to Firefox. I work at a community college where we have deployed a homebrewed solution based on Ubuntu and Firefox for our Kioks. We were initially going to try and use OpenKiosk for Mozilla. But for reasons that I don’t remember right now it would not quite suit our needs, so we heavily modified Firefox and Ubuntu to do what we wanted. I will post another update when I dig up why we couldn’t use OpenKiosk for Mozilla.

I am excited to try your kiosk implementation for Firefox. I think that this is sorely needed. If you search for kiosk extensions on the firefox website you will not find any (at least the last time I checked anyways).

Great work!
–Aaron

By: Marius SchÃ¤fer

Marius SchÃ¤fer — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:04:38 +0000

Hi Brian, thanks for your mail and for the nice work you have done! I think it’s great that there’s some further development of OpenKiosk.
So far I’m running one client with mozilla (there will be a project description on my site when it’s finished (this will take very very long :-))). But I will have more use for it in future, I’m sure!

By: Matt Morgan

Matt Morgan — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:06:00 +0000

This is great news, thanks! When I pitch OpenKiosk, lack of familiarity with Mozilla can be an issue. Lots of people don’t understand the connection between Mozilla and Firefox, or think of Mozilla as inferior, somehow.

What about pdas? Where does that Minimo project stand, the one that was going to port FF to PocketPC? It would be cool to be able to run OpenKiosk on an iPaq.

By: Jerry Geis

Jerry Geis — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:31:24 +0000

I am interested in the firefox port.
One item that would be nice also (fixed in both firefox and mozilla) is to be able to remotely control the browser also
with the -remote command line ability on linux.
It seems to not work in kiosk mode.

Jerry

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