tweaking kiosk mode to make app mode
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(Firefox :: Enterprise Policies, enhancement)
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(Reporter: jonathan.kirszling, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
I want to be able to use new kiosk mode (thx for that !) is a "app mode" way.
It's great to let us use webmails without heavy clients.
firefox --kiosk "https://webmail.domain.com"
Actual results:
- It opens fullscreen. I use my wm to turn that fullscreen mode off, to just have a window with only page on screen.
- Profiles problem when using side to non-kiosk firefox instance, i need to use -P -no-remote "kiosk_profile".
- When i clic a link in a mail, it opens a new tab in kiosk mode.
- No contextual menu, no possibility to clearly copy/paste from/to kiosk mode.
Expected results:
- One should be able to run in a "non fullscreen" mode.
- It would be great to make "kiosk" mode acts like a special instance with a dedicated "default_kiosk" default profile.
- Kiosk mode should disable open tabs. What is the way to tell firefox to use firefox non-kiosk instance to open links if exists ?
- One should be able to right clic in kiosk mode.
Kiosk mode is near an "app mode", why not giving a little more effort to make a "--app" args OR giving ability to completly tweak --kiosk behaviours.
Comment 1•5 years ago
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Hi, are you trying the Modern Kiosk firefox add-on? (https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/modern-kiosk/?src=search)
Please notice that it is still under development, but it is suposed to not let a person do anything but browse the web and lock the rest of the computer down to prevent access to the running browser. (restricting the app to just one full-screen window)
I've already chosen a component for this bug in hope that someone with more expertise takes a look at it. We'll await their answer.
Best regards, Clara.
Updated•5 years ago
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I don't get what you mean. My issue concerns improvment on new builtin kiosk mode, and you tell me to use an obsolete plugin ?
Strange :)
I'm talking about new "firefox --kiosk" not "Modern Kiosk firefox add-on"
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/
"Enterprise
New kiosk mode functionality, which allows maximum screen space for customer-facing displays"
Comment 4•5 years ago
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Hi,
Thanks for clarifying! I've just updated the component and changed the status so that Firefox/Enterprise team takes a look.
Have a great day,
Clara
Comment 5•5 years ago
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We are actively working on app mode:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283670
I would suggest you keep an eye on that work.
Comment 6•5 years ago
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I'm going to dupe this. We're building what you're looking for in that bug. We're not going to change kiosk mode to do that.
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