[UniMacTech] Leopard Parental Controls Break Firefox?

[Mark Szota]

Just for those who are interested, Camino did not fix this, but Firefox 
3 beta 4 seems to rectify this problem (v3 beta 3 did not).

Cheers
Mark

Declan McQuay wrote:
> 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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