Comments on: How to open Internet Explorer in full screen kiosk mode

By: Rajesh Reddy

Rajesh Reddy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:12:34 +0000

Very useful tip, thanks

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:49:12 +0000

Hi, nice trick. But can you open IE in kiosk mode on a “secondary screen” ?

Regards Anders

By: web designer phuket

web designer phuket — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:53:54 +0000

I think this very good for local computers, is there a kiosk mode for online web browsers? When a visitor clicks a link, it automaticaly loads in F11 full-screen mode?

By: Sorpigal

Sorpigal — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:25:43 +0000

@Karen Freeman

F11 and -k are not at all the same thing. F11 gives you “full screen” mode, whereas -k gives you “kiosk” mode.

Try hitting F11 while in kiosk mode and you get… nothing. Try opening the file menu by hitting ALT+F… nothing. The browser is locked down in this mode. In full screen mode the user can easily and obviously escape back to normal mode and all normal functions work.

The original post is incorrect in equating full screen mode and kiosk mode. Which you use depends on what you really want.

By: Karen Freeman

Karen Freeman — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:11:16 +0000

I am using IE version 7.0 and your approach doesn’t work because you can’t put quotes before C:\ etc. Windows automatically puts in another C:\ before the “C:\ that you’ve inserted.
And if you get rid of the “C:\ and just start with “Program Files etc., that doesn’t work either.

Why not just tell your users to use the Function key F11? It’s a toggle, it’s fast and easy, and it works beautifully.

Karen

By: Geo

Geo — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:35:06 +0000

Excellent programme……u r very genious..thanks a lot.

By: Blogspace of Eric Brodeur » Internet Explorer’s kiosk mode and the sad reality of Internet security

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:36:00 +0000

[...] and not easily exited from. This got me thinking about “kiosk mode” and web browsers. Internet Explorer does kiosk mode quite well, presenting a full-screen experience without any on-screen navigation controls (although [...]

By: abhishek

abhishek — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:08:02 +0000

quite useful tip…thanks

By: Danny V

Danny V — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:22:55 +0000

You can press F11 in Firefox (as in IE) to have it go to Full Screen mode when you need it too.

(As Jamie said, the first screenshot is of Firefox )

By: Gopinath M

Gopinath M — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:42:46 +0000

Aseem, this is an excellent finding. It is very useful to watch movies and browse websites with out any other distractions. Do we have any option similar to this in Firefox?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:59:50 +0000

The pictures are of Firefox.