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Old 06-13-2011, 12:00 PM
Jeff Campbell
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Default Did Apple Borrow from Chrome OS? And Why is This a Good Idea?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/12/...wser-only-mode/

"MacRumors was digging through the latest developer beta of Mac OS X Lion when it found a rather intriguing new option -- if you choose "Restart to Safari" on the user lock screen, the computer will reboot into a mode which consists entirely of the web browser."

I keep my laptop on lockdown pretty much anytime I'm away from it, so I'm not so sure I like this. It also sounds like kind of a pain to get to a web browser, going through shutdown and restart. Just set up a guest account with no permissions if you want to let others use your computer. Or am I missing some reason this is a good idea? What are your thoughts?

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