[UniMacTech] Leopard Parental Controls Break Firefox?

[Declan McQuay]

Mark,

Have you tried Camino? It uses the Firefox rendering engine, but far 
better suited to OSX than Firefox.

- Declan

Mark Szota wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> As per discussions at:
>
> http://iuseapple.com/blog/apple-how-to/os-x-tips/2008/01/20/parental-controls-in-a-lab-setting-w-os-x-1051-leopard/ 
>
> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6582788
>
> It seems Leopard's inbuilt Parental Controls are causing problems with 
> managed users who use Firefox. In my scenario, even with the web 
> parental controls set to "Allow unrestricted access" it is preventing 
> students from posting messages on our local WebCT / Blackboard system 
> using Firefox (v1.5.x and v2.x, v3 betas won't render pages properly). 
> This problem does not occur in Safari.
>
> This behaviour does not occur when they are standard users, but then 
> they are able to modify the dock, change the account password, etc. 
> which I can't allow. The workaround listed in the iuseapple blog for 
> managed users doesn't seem to work either.
>
> Are there any workarounds that will solve this problem? 10.5.2 doesn't 
> seem to have changed anything in this regard.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>


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