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

[Chris Cox]

David Simmons wrote:
> 
> ok..ok..I know this comes straight from the BAFH handbook...but I need
> someway to restrict the erasing of history (within Firefox) from a few
> machines.
> 
> Googling brings up pages and pages of ways to erase
> your history...but not ways to stop people from erasing.
> 
> 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.


If you have access to a server that you can leave on, you
have it run a proxy and force network users to have to
use the proxy.  Make it an authenticating proxy (you have
to login)... then you wouldn't even have to block anything
necessarily... but accesses would be logged.  This is
the computerized form of an "exposure" method of
control.  Browsing ceases to be anonymous and therefore,
people won't go where they know they aren't supposed
to go.  I use this method at my church.

This may not answer the exact question, but may be in the
spririt of what you are trying to do... not sure...