BrowserOnly

BrowserOnly is a fullscreen browser.

Features

• Starts in fullscreen, hides the operating system
• Exit on F11 key
• Option to disable context menu (right click)
• Option to return to start page at X minutes since last page load
• Option to disable links that open a new Window

This is a good "internet kiosk" browser. With a screen, a trackball and a local start page BrowserOnly is an ideal setup to display information to visitors, thanks to the ubiquitous HTML document format.

Releases

1. 2009-05-181.0.3 Press Backspace to go to previous page (same as in IE and Firefox). Added support for relative path in URL argument.
2. 2009-03-131.0.2 Press Alt+Home to go to start page. Same as in IE and Firefox.
3. 2009-03-011.0.1 Added support for Java 1.4. Releasing builds for Linux and Windows.
4. 2009-02-091.0 Introduces the idea. A tribute to the agile programming advice: Release early, release often.

Download

Release 1.0.3:

• BrowserOnly.exe for windows
• BrowserOnly executable jar for Windows
• BrowserOnly executable jar for Linux

Requires Java

Usage

Download and double click. No installation required.

Press F11 to exit the browser. If key press is not working on a page, a form element may have taken focus — try clicking on an empty area and then press the key again.

The easiest way to use your own start page is to place the executable in a folder that contains a file named index.html. Tip: BrowserOnly has no address bar — Chose a start page with a search box to let users go to any web page (most search engines recognize domain names).

Advanced usage

BrowserOnly.exe -w -c -t 5 http://browseronly.com/

... would start the browser with:

• new windows disabled (-w)
• context menu disabled (-c)
• return to start page after 5 minutes (-t X)
• start page browseronly.com (first argument with no "-")

Known issues

In the current release file upload can not be disabled, which means that users on a public internet kiosk can access the local file system.

The exe-file for Windows has failed to locate the installed Java on some Windows 98 machines. Fix: Use the executable jar instead.

License

BrowserOnly is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. It is free. The distribution includes SWT, which is EPL license.

Contact

No mailing list yet. Contact solsson at gmail.

Address bar

Not needed. Type the address in a search box.