Google Firefox and Parental Controls in Mac OS X – seen issues myself. There are issues with sites requiring login/cookies while Parental Controls are enabled on the Mac. Can’t find the specific fixes I used, but I recall having to set the proxy on the local machine.
Something like this thread is most familiar, but it was a couple years ago:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=103327
Found it!
“The way Parental Controls and web filtering works is that there’s a kernel module that intercepts HTTP traffic and redirects it to httpd (listening on port 10010). httpd actually implements the controls, logging, rejecting bad URLs etc. The kernel module is a useful approach as it can intercept http traffic even if a browser isn’t configured to use a proxy. But, somehow, when Firefox submits a form via HTTP POST through this mechanism, the headers get garbled.
Try configuring Firefox to specify the httpd proxy directly. In Firefox, Preferences > Advanced > Network > Settings … and specify host 127.0.0.1, port 10010 as the proxy. “
Or just use Safari if you are filtering sites via Parental Controls.
(@kingche)
13 years, 6 months ago
I took my class of 3rd graders into the computer lab to comment on our class blog today. Half of the computers are new mini macs. Half of the computers are mac laptops. Most of the browsers are firefox on all computers, except a few. ALL of the students (10) on the mini mac computers were able to successfully submit their comments; they were automatically posted. ALL of the students (11) on laptops were unable to post, the screen went blank once they clicked submit. I have looked at the forums and support documentations. Perhaps it is the cookies and caches on all the laptops. Is that most likely the case?