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Looking for a good solution for a hands-free kiosk. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I want to setup a bunch of laptops to be web kiosks, I'll organize my wants into a list so that it's easier to skim:

Open a version of Firefox with the normal ui, tabs and all.
Automatically enters a session with no user input on reboot
Doesn't allow doing anything but interacting with Firefox (kinda obvious, kiosk and all)
Auto-login
Automatic updates, with them being applied on restart
Firefox settings reset on reboot

Nice to haves:

nice Plymouth screen to hide the scary code on startup.
completely block any attempts to change configuration on Firefox
ad-block
easy deployment to a bunch of machines.

If these sound like pretty strict requirements, they are, I'm doing this to attempt to get an internship by making my school's web kiosk laptops not suck (they currently run a janky install of Ubuntu 18.04)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I'd be glad to add more information.

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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

thank you for the long answer, but i looked at the policies.json documentation and it didnt have anything to block the core settings

[–] izax@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It also supports about:config settings with the AutoConfig feature. Does this help? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-autoconfig

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

that should help, thanks!

edit: Yup, i can use that to reset user preferences on reboot, perfect