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Mac OS X Lion Has a Browser-Only Mode

Posted by timothy on from the meme-gets-around-quick dept.

dkd903 writes "It turns out that there is a feature in OS X Lion which no one expected and was never announced at WWDC. The feature we are talking about is 'Restart to Safari.' As you might have guessed from the name, this feature makes it possible to restart the Mac into just the Safari browser and nothing else."

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  1. Re:Basic OS functionality by amliebsch · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yup. You could do the same thing in Windows by simply changing the Guest account's shell to $browser.exe; in fact, with fast user switching it wouldn't even require a reboot. That this is some kind of exciting new feature is a triumph of Apple marketing.

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  2. Re:STR by trapnest · · Score: -1, Troll

    X crashing

    We were talking about real OSes here.