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Kiosk Web Browsers

Currently, I have found a way to host the current installation of Internet Explorer in kiosk mode using asp.net and VB

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("iexplore", "-k " & "http://www.google.co.uk")

The -k option is a command that puts the browser in kiosk mode, however other browsers, such as chrome, only place a new instance of the page in another tab, and firefox simply opens the browser without loading the window. I need to know which commands to pass so that chrome and firefox respond in the same way as IE.

Thank you very much

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The Chrome browser can execute KIOSK mode with this command.

 chrome.exe --chrome-frame -kiosk "your web page".

The good thing with Chrome is that you can create applications that can use webkit animations, and they look great for applications like KIOSK.

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It looks like you might be interested in the state of Windows Steady State, it is stopped and does not start on win 7, but if you have XP or Vista, this will allow you to lock the PC nice and hard. Thus, you can limit the use of programs in browsers that you want (if you cannot block chrome and ff) and upon rebooting it will clear any changes on the PC, basically returning you to a clean state

More details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SteadyState

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