Kiosk Mode (or, why did the menu bar disappear?)

If you suddenly find that your iCab window has grown to fill the screen, and both the window's title bar, and the menu bar, have disappeared, you have inadvertently entered Kiosk Mode. Kiosk Mode, as the name suggests, is intended for using iCab as a Web-based kiosk computer and, as such, blocks access to the rest of Mac OS. Some people inadvertently invoke Kiosk Mode and do not know how to get out, so they panic and switch off the computer, or crash out of iCab. Unfortunately, the next time iCab loads, it will be in Kiosk Mode again ...

So how do you get out?

Kiosk Mode can be left by pressing command-K (command is the key with the Apple logo on, to the immediate left of the space bar). Normally, this should work without a problem and iCab will return to normal.

However, if at any point in the past, you were playing with Kiosk Mode deliberately, you may have entered a password. If so, iCab will require this password to be entered before leaving Kiosk Mode. If after pressing command-K, a password window appears, try to guess what the password will be. If you cannot guess what the password was, you will have to reset iCab's main settings ("iCab Preferences" or "iCab Preferences3") to cause it to forget that it is in Kiosk mode.

Alexander Clauss, iCab's developer, has been taking and will take further steps to reduce the likelihood of accidentally entering Kiosk Mode, but for users of iCab 2, these improvements may never be seen.

-- DanielBeardsmore - 20 Oct 2006