Default home page in Safari -- can't change?

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Default home page in Safari -- can't change?

After upgrading to Leopard, I set up a user account for my daughter today, with parental controls on so she can only access specific sites in Safari. But now I can't change the default home page -- it's all grayed out. There's no reason she should have to go to the apple live page or whatever every time she goes online. Any idea how to change it?

eMac G4, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jun 23, 2008 8:39 PM

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roam

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Jun 23, 2008 9:13 PM in response to Jeff Neely

Just taking a guess here, but how about you temporarily turn the Child Control off, then set the Safari homepage to blank or something else of your choosing, and then turn Child Control back on.

This is based on the assumption that the controlled account cannot alter the homepage.

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RodneyW

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Jun 23, 2008 9:15 PM in response to Jeff Neely

G'day!

I am not the worlds expert on Parental Controls (kids are too young). I had some practice in setting up limited accounts for my in-laws though...

But you should be able to change the home page by turning off Parental Controls, logging into the account and then changing the home page.

You can then turn Parental Controls on again.

Edit: Sorry for the duplicate of roam2... must have just crossed paths!

Message was edited by: RodneyW

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V.K.

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Jun 23, 2008 9:18 PM in response to Jeff Neely

I'm not an expert on parental controls either but if you restricted the sites she can visit that means that only one of these sites can be used as the homepage. therefore go to one of these sites and use the button "set to current home page" below the grayed out home page address in safari preferences.

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