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Family Safety parental controls for Edge on Chromium
- We have not released any information on that yet, SeitzM. What controls are you most interested in?
reded23 I'm on v1903, build 18362.327 - it's interesting, actually - i need to test a bit more, but it seems that on first boot, the browser seems to correctly respect family safety, with blocking as assigned in the family safety settings, and blocking inprivate mode. But if the computer goes to sleep and comes back, it seems to "forget" that respect, and allows access to inprivate / movement around safety settings. I assume this is a defect that will be addressed in an upcoming build of Edge, especially since we're getting much closer to full family safety protection.
FWIW, i've set up a multi layered protection scheme:
1) MS Family Safety, with whitelist access only
2) custom hosts file that has an externally curated list of objectionable sites blocked. Setting the user as a non-admin keeps them from changing the hosts file
3) using OpenDNS to block objectionable sites as well - hardcoding those DNS servers on the machine in question
I find this to be a pretty good safety net 🙂 not perfect but workable
Hi chrismrea, thank you for alerting us to the issue with sleep. Our developers were able to reproduce this and then debug it. They will be able to get a fix for this into one of the next couple Canary channel updates. We are also working on writing documentation that explains what family safety features we will support, as well as how to use them effectively. It will likely not get published very soon, but I wanted to let you know we are working on it. Thanks - Elliot
Elliot Kirk Did you fix it ? Its now working in the update I just got, thanks I can't wait to see this in the Dev branch. I also see google search is set to safe now, nice.
FYI pressing home crashes this build 78.0.267.0 (its set to http://www.google.com)
Hi reded23, it wasn't me personally, but we have been working on family safety features quite a bit recently. I am glad that it is now working for you. Please let us know if you have any feedback in this area. Thanks - Elliot
P.S. Let me know if the Home button is still crashing for you. I tested it out on 78.0.268.0, and it seemed to be working correctly for me.
Elliot Kirk
You know, Elliot, for all (some) people say MS doesn't listen or feedback does nothing... Man, in the Insider work I do, sure do repeatedly see concrete instances proving the opposite! It is such rubbish! Hey, if you can write code you can probably read English, LOL (never mind, just another bad joke).
Whether via WIP & the Windows Build Team or Bing, Office or Edge, the Teams DO read/listen AND act on that input. Seen it 1st hand countless times. Do the duck's back thing if you hear otherwise from anyone.
Cheers,
DrewElliot Kirk - thanks so much for your response - very gratifying to know that the devs are monitoring here and were able to reproduce the issue!
