#Disable private browsing firefox install#
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Parents who understand computer security well enough to be aware of this issue are somewhat less common. Kids who understand computers well enough to do this are not particularly rare.

#Disable private browsing firefox install#

One problem with both of these approaches is that current operating systems donвЂ™t prevent non-privileged users from running executable files that are stored in user-writable areas of the filesystem, so even in limited accounts the kids can download a browser of their choosing and install it in My Documents.

#Disable private browsing firefox software#

Assuming that the parents are (or have access to, *other* than the kids) sufficiently competent computer users to handle basic administration tasks like software installation and setting up limited user accounts for their kids, they could do this. Perhaps the existence of private browsing mode could be a compile-time option, and an alternate version of Firefox could then easily be released that does not have it. Consequently, I donвЂ™t think thatвЂ™s the ideal way to solve the problem. If it were, I can think of several software companies who would abuse the capability to create painfully stupid uninstallable toolbar extensions. > Is it possible to have an вЂњuninstallable extensionвЂќвЂ™ This entry was posted in Hacking by gerv. If we added a private browsing pref, does вЂњpref lockingвЂќ still work, and could that be used? There are docs about it on the web, but no clear info as to whether it currently works and can be done in a non-defeatable manner. Is it possible to have an вЂњuninstallable extensionвЂќ, under the same conditions (user account separation) as IE and Chrome have вЂњunchangeable registry entriesвЂќ? If so, that seems like it would provide parity with Chrome and IE. For Firefox, he just drops in a userChrome.css to hide the menu item, which is clearly suboptimal.

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Technically, Chrome and IE support this disabling using a registry option and, if your Windows computer is set up correctly with user accounts for each person, then this is an effective method, and itвЂ™s what WilliamвЂ™s program uses. In other words, if you know the keyboard shortcut for private browsing in Firefox, it is still available. Note: While Incognito Gone completely removes the private browsing function from Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, in Mozilla Firefox only the option for private browsing is removed. William Wood has written a program, вЂњIncognito GoneвЂќ, which turns off private browsing or the equivalent in Chrome, IE and Firefox. However, IвЂ™m not really interested in having that discussion again вЂ“ this post is about the best way to do it, not whether itвЂ™s a good idea. So I think it should be possible to disable PBM. I support the right of parents to review what their children have been looking at, both morally in terms of my understanding of the way God has given parents authority over their children, and for the pragmatic reason that itвЂ™s likely that, with such an ability, they will give their children greater access to the web than they would otherwise have. This subject has been discussed before on this blog.