Firefox in Kiosk Mode, disable closing the browser.

[clivebuckwheat]

Hi

I know how to run Firefox in Kiosk mode, what I do not know how to do is disable the "X" in the upper right hand corner, so users cannot close the browser, does anyone know how to do this?

[MHz]

Does Firefox actually support kiosk mode as builtin?, I am not sure... and F11 is not kiosk mode BTW. A quick google search came up with this extension.

Edited February 17, 2008 by MHz

[Idontwantspam]

Rkiosk is amazing. Use it. (That's the link he gave in the previous post)

[clivebuckwheat]

that works, but I need the navigation tool bar, and a print menu, so users can print.

Anyone?

also is there a preferably free utility to disable ALT-F4?.

[Idontwantspam]

There is a setting in prefs.js (about:config) to show the nav bar. I don't remember what specifically it is but I think it says on the download page.

[MHz]

also is there a preferably free utility to disable ALT-F4?.

This is application-specific behavior, and each application can choose whether to process or ignore a WM_CLOSE request. Thus it is up to Firefox to ignore the message sent when Alt+F4 is pressed. One way is to disable some keys on the keyboard to prevent the global use to these key/s. You could try this application here but take care with committing changes. There maybe a option in the Group Policy within the OS to disable Alt+F4, so check that 1st. I seem to remember that a gui tool exist in the MS resource tools to change scancodes but cannot be certain of it's worth.