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Yes, but is it possible to turn the history off?
Authored by: dougness on Mar 23, '05 09:55:26AM
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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