I tried ChromeFrame it is very good, but it doesn't work if the Kiosk Mode
flag is set. If the Kiosk mode is set ( iexplorer.exe -k
http://www.google.com ) it renders it as IE Renderer. It renders it fine in
a Chrome Frame if its not in Kiosk mode. That must be a bug :)
For IE, kiosk mode has a context menu, but people usually apply the registry
tweak to remove context menu from IE if they need to.
For Chromium, it would be nice if stuff like this would be an extension, an
extension should allow us to show/hide various parts of the UI. In the
meantime, I quickly compiled a custom Chromium so that my CEO and VP could
see the benefits of using Chrome instead of IE on some of our web products.
Stuff that would be cool and would be very lightweight to include for kiosk
mode would be:
- No Status Bar- Full Screen (with no exit, only alt+f4 should work)
- No Context Menus (should be an option)
- Disable downloading of files.
- No tabs
- No opening files
- many more
I would rather that be an extension (but there are currently no way to
actually block users to remove extensions, maybe blocking users entering a
url would suffice) but not possible currently.
-Mohamed
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Amit Joshi <a...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Chrome Frame is a good option, but you'd still need a way to turn off some
>> features. For example, a kiosk probably doesn't want to have a context
>> menu.
>
>
> Chrome Frame can/will offer control over the context menu. This is exactly
> the kind of customization Chrome Frame can offer. Too bad we don't have
> Linux, Mac versions yet, but we are open source now so patches welcome :)
>
>
>> -Darin
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Amit Joshi <a...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I think you should really consider embedding chrome frame ActiveX in your
>>> own simple shell. That will not only enable the application to be started
>>> with desired real estate and get rid of status bubble but allow you to
>>> customize it further if needed.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> At work today, I talked to the CEO of my company to ship Chrome browser
>>>>> with all our Kiosk's and recommended Chrome to be our default browser for
>>>>> our web products. I bench marked our current web applications with Chrome
>>>>> (ToT) vs IE 7, and our applications run at average 10 times faster. (For
>>>>> windows, Mac speed differed)
>>>>> There are some stuff that he didn't like:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Status Bubble: for a cashiering application, it keeps popping up
>>>>> every second since buttons are all over the place. It was distracting
>>>>> him
>>>>> from the main product.
>>>>> 2. Full screen mode "always" => Kiosk Mode. He wants the web app to
>>>>> stay full screen, in IE, there is kiosk mode command line switch. In FF
>>>>> there is a plugin.
>>>>> 3. JavaScript errors kept appearing intermittently (on the Mac),
>>>>> would work on initial deploy but require a "Clear browsing data" on
>>>>> subsequent runs. Works great on windows (chrome). I guess we would be
>>>>> using
>>>>> linux/windows for kiosk anyhow.
>>>>>
>>>>> Will there be plans for us to introduce Kiosk Mode in Chrome? It seems
>>>>> the current audience is just targeted towards home users and there is no
>>>>> way
>>>>> to use Google Chrome for other usages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure we could compile our own Chromium version, but many people (Chrome
>>>>> forums and elsewhere) would like to use Chrome commercially. In the
>>>>> meantime, I am going to compile a version with no status bar, but I
>>>>> believe
>>>>> it would be nice to include it in future versions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe we could allow extensions to control (hide/show) different areas
>>>>> in chrome.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm in the minority, but it doesn't sound that unreasonable to
>>>> support command line options for disabling the status bubble and starting
>>>> in
>>>> full screen mode. We could lump these together into a --kiosk-mode command
>>>> line flag. This seems like something that could be done in a fairly
>>>> lightweight manner.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe others object?
>>>>
>>>> -Darin
>>>>
>>>> >>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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