190654 - Fullscreen Kiosk mode

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[amutch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
Build Identifier: 

This patch creates this preference:

user_pref("browser.kiosk_mode", true);

which when set to "true" allows Phoenix to be run in a Fullscreen Kiosk mode. 
It hides all of the chrome and disables shortcut keys except for ALT-F4 which 
closes the browser. This has only been tested on Windows. 

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

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Comment 1

[amutch]

Attachment: Fullscreen Kiosk patch

Comment 2

[amutch]

Forget to add that this works with the current nightly. With 0.5, it's a 
little glitchy. 

Comment 3

[Pierre Chanial]

amutch: since few people will need this valuable feature, I think the best would
be to create a kiosk extension that you could maintain.

Comment 4

[amutch]

I've made an extension available here:

http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/pro/phoenix/fullscreen.htm

As I noted at Mozillazine, this is a standard feature in Netscape 4 (-k and -
sk modes) and IE (-k mode) so I tend to view it as a standard feature, not an 
add-on. 

I would note that I've been contacted by several people (libraries, museums, 
etc.) who are looking to use Phoenix if this feature is available. I'll try to 
work with Jessica to keep the code up-to-date but I'm not a coder so I'm not 
sure if I could be the one to keep this going. Thanks for considering it.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I've spoken with the developers and this is not going to be incorporated into
Phoenix. Thanks for the great extension though. 

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Verified.