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How can I switch Google Chrome to work in kiosk mode on OS X Lion?

I've tried:

open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app http://www.google.com`

from the terminal without luck.

My goal is to obtain a web kiosk with OS X Lion and I'm trying to accomplish it using Chrome but any other suggestion is appreciated.

UPDATE 1 preferably the kiosk don't have to display anything more than a HTML5 website. No toolbars/commands/url/title.

UPDATE 2 the system needs to boot in kiosk mode a.k.a. with just the browser in full screen as written above in UPDATE 1.

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There's a nice little gimmick built into Lion called the "Safari Mode".

According to Apple forums, you can enable it by:

  • Rebooting the Mac
  • Immediately after it turns on, holding cmd-R
  • Choosing the Safari icon from the options

It allows you to run the computer in a mode where only Safari is allowed, and no data is being read or written from/to your hard drive. This is the most effective kiosk mode I can imagine, because there's no way for the user to mess with the system.

Also, Daniel has an answer over there, which suggests that kiosk mode in Chrome is just not enabled in the OS X builds. But there's some kind of a workaround, which automatically enables full-screen.

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