[NTLUG:Discuss] Administration tool to restrict Firefox history erasing

[Robert Citek]

David Simmons wrote:
> Why would I want to do this you may ask?  Because I have kids....grin
> 
> Any ideas other than having to setup specific accounts for the
> kids and restrict those accounts would be helpful.

A couple of options:

1) cron job which archives the ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/history.dat
2) chattr -a history.dat  (maybe?)

Workarounds for your kids:

1) create a new profile and delete it when you're finished
2) boot with Knoppix

Good luck and let us know what works for you.

Regards,
- Robert