Google reportedly moved its Google Chrome's parental control feature into Chrome Beta on Tuesday. The move is believed to lure parents and teachers to choose Chrome and Chrome OS.
The parental control feature, called Supervised Users, would allow primary chrome OS users create multiple accounts which can be set apart by privilege status. They can set up a secondary account that could be screened. This would allow primary chrome OS users – parents or teachers – to check on what the secondary account's user try to do.
According to a blog post by Pam Greene, Chrome's engineer, If you want to share your computer with your son, "Once you've created a supervised user for him on your Chromebook, you'll be able to visit chrome.com/manage to review a history of web pages he has visited, determine sites that you want to allow or block, and manage permissions for any blocked websites he has requested to view."
Chromebooks are selling well in the U.S., taking credit for a quarter of the sub-$300 PC market last year. The cut-rate laptops have gained many attentions from teachers, not just because of its costs, but also because Chromebooks have keyboards which can be used for educating and honing children's typing skills.
Nasko Oskov and Chris Palmer, Chrome security engineers, are also working on an extension that will ease the "paranoid mode." The two tweeted on Tuesday, with a screenshot, that they have built "Flake," an extension that will allow users to manage the security level of HTTPS and HTTP traffic and it is "in development" for a year now.
Oskov tweeted, "It is currently implemented only as a personal experiment inside an extension." However, this could mean something big for Chrome users.
While HTTPS is not an infallible security wall, according to CNET, it makes the traffic sent using it protected. "Flake" could be greatly beneficial to security-conscious users.
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