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Yes, but is it possible to turn the history off?
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Yes, but is it possible to turn the history off?
I spoke too soon. It would appear that the "Earlier Today" list is kept in memory. It does seem to be reset on a quit/restart of Safari, and the actual 'History' is empty.This has always been my experience. No matter what you use to zero out the history settings, that "Earlier Today" thing is always running, even if it gets reset upon closing the window or quitting the application. As I said, I have to believe this is so SnapBack won't be broken (even if we don't mind if it is). --Books
Yes, but is it possible to turn the history off?
Do you have people logout between sessions? If so I believe you can address the privacy issue by using a login script to refresh the entire home directory of the default user. A "clean" reference version of the home directory is previously saved and stored in a management area (like in the machine's Library directory) to do the refreshing with. This is how we run our Macs at school and I'm pretty sure no part of the browser history crosses sessions (I will check though). This also has the added benefit of restoring all settings for the default user account at the beginning of each session. Of course this approach would depend on reliably logging out between users.
Yes, but is it possible to turn the history off?
I verified this morning that the approach of refreshing the default users home directory clears out any trace of browser history from the previous sessions (I guess it would be pretty weird if it didn't).
So it would preserve privacy without having to hack away at Safari (plus - history and snapback are features that you might want your patrons to be able to use). Anyway, if you are interested in setting your machines up this way (using a login script) this site is a good resource (check out LoginWindow Manager and the Deployment area). You'd just have to do some thinking about how to make sure folks logout (set an idle time logout, have a big red logout button widget, post a sign on each machine...) |
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