Make Browsing Safer for Children in Google Chrome

jmke · 27th April 2010, 12:01

If you are worried about the websites that your children could accidentally visit while browsing, then you may want to have a look at the Kid Safe – LinkExtend extension for Google Chrome.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15386...google-chrome/

jmke · 27th April 2010, 12:02

can kids remove this plugin?

27th April 2010, 16:55

Kids can open Internet Explorer or even install Firefox, Opera or Safari, browsers that aren't protected by this extention. Much safer way would be a system wide protection.
It's btw ridiculously easy to disable:

It's in fact harder to re-enable it

And, it also loads the page before checking the safety, so kids could be seeing things that they shouldn't be seeing

So, in my humble opinion, it's a nice addition if you have a system wide protection, but on its own it's a worthless plugin.

jmke · 27th April 2010, 17:01

thanks for testing this, it's indeed a bit ridicilous to have if you can't password protect it.

on Vista/7 you can very easily lock down what applications can be run, so you can disable FF/IE etc

27th April 2010, 12:01	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	Make Browsing Safer for Children in Google Chrome If you are worried about the websites that your children could accidentally visit while browsing, then you may want to have a look at the Kid Safe – LinkExtend extension for Google Chrome. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15386...google-chrome/ __________________

27th April 2010, 12:02	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	can kids remove this plugin? __________________

27th April 2010, 16:55	#3
wutske Posts: n/a	Kids can open Internet Explorer or even install Firefox, Opera or Safari, browsers that aren't protected by this extention. Much safer way would be a system wide protection. It's btw ridiculously easy to disable: It's in fact harder to re-enable it And, it also loads the page before checking the safety, so kids could be seeing things that they shouldn't be seeing So, in my humble opinion, it's a nice addition if you have a system wide protection, but on its own it's a worthless plugin. Attached Thumbnails

27th April 2010, 17:01	#4
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	thanks for testing this, it's indeed a bit ridicilous to have if you can't password protect it. on Vista/7 you can very easily lock down what applications can be run, so you can disable FF/IE etc __________________

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