[WEB4LIB] Re: here we go again...'Critical' security flaw

[Andrew Mutch]

Don,

PWB rides on top of IE so most of the flaws that affect IE are still an
issue even if you exclusively use PWB.

As for a kiosk frontend for FF, I've done a very-dated tutorial on how to
lock down the FF interface but it requires hacking the code directly and
isn't nearly as user-friendly as what PWB provides. I haven't seen any
good kiosk projects with FF. That's definitely a niche that needs to be
filled.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI


> I would hate to put the good folks at teamsoftware, purveyors of a very
> fine library-centric front end for IE(PWB), out of work, but is anyone
> looking at a similar set of controls for Firefox? Does PWB render these
> flaws inaccessible, or do we still have to worry?
>
> don