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Wednesday 28 August 2013

Chrome to win over worried parents with 'supervised user' accounts

Android 4.3 isn't the only Google-made software getting a child-friendly makeover. This weekend, traces of a "Supervised user" mode appeared in Chrome Canary, the early, oft-unstable preview build for the popular web browser.

Chrome has long supported multiple user profiles, but these supervised accounts—as first noticed by BrowserFame—add a more kid-friendly twist to things, as they're managed by a master account rather than being a separate account entirely.
Or, at least that's what the splash screen that appears after you've created a supervised user says. The Chrome Management page that you'll apparently use to configure restrictions and allowed websites for supervised users under your care returns a 404 error right now, which severely limits the current usefulness of the feature.
But hey! That's why it's in Canary, rather than Chrome proper, and it's encouraging to see Google making its browser more child-friendly. Don't be surprised to see supervised users pop up in Chromebooks, too—beyond merely appeasing worried parents, supervised users could also be a boon to Google's continued push to crack the education market with its low-cost hardware.

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