My 4 year old son watches www.youtube.com too frequently. I tried to use various Firefox plug ins to prevent him from accessing video sites. Unfortunately, he constantly finds alternate video sites. He even figured out how to disable the plug ins that I used to block his access to youtube and other sites.

How do I keep my 4 year old son from accessing the videos on these sites? I currently use Ubuntu. However, I am willing to any nontechnical distribution to fix this problem. I also tried Dillo. Unfortunately, it makes the web pages look extremely ugly.

Presuming this story is true ... If you can't control your 4-year old, what the hell you gonna do when he's 14?

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I set up accounts for my 7 and 4 year old grandsons. I did not put browsers on their desktops, and I removed the K menu from the tray. All I gave them are links to their favorite games. They're stuck with that until the learn how to add apps to the tray, and I don't intend to teach them anytime soon.

That's one sharp kid!

If he can figure out how to do all that, you'll never stop him!

When I was growing up, doing something which I was specifically told not to do earned me a backhander.

Remove firefox from the menu, and start it manually from a terminal or by adding a "Run an Application by entering a command" panel item. That is, until he learns how to type "firefox". Perhaps increased supervision is in order.

Very easily. Only install the flash player on your account (if he uses your account, simply remove the plugin completely), don't run as root (so he can't re-activate the plugin), and if he knows your password and you have sudo installed, change your password.

I don't have kids yet, but this seems like it has to be trollbait.

Peace,
Jim

Yes, this sounds like trolling, but for future reference, I think the simplest way to prevent a user from installing Flash in Firefox would be something like this:

1. Give them their own username/password (don't give them root, duh).
2. Don't install Flash globally (don't install it in /usr/lib, etc.)
3. To prevent them from installing Flash in their home directories, simply take away their ownership of ~/.mozilla (or wherever Firefox stores user preferences), then take away their write permissionsj.

Shouldn't bite at a nice flashy troll, but there is a really simple solution.

Don't allow children to have unsupervised access to a computer and/or internet.

Common sense; a most uncommon commodity.

Ahaha... what, are you kidding? How do you get a 26 year old man to even get flash to work in Linux?

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