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Mozilla's website states:

Numerous features of the kiosk mode are configurable through policy or command line parameters when launching the browser.

However, other than a single example to run kiosk mode as a private window, it doesn't seem to provide any information on how to access such configuration. I couldn't seem to find the information anywhere else either.

How can I configure kiosk mode?

EDIT: there seems to be some confusion about what I'm looking for. I'm already aware that I can pass other, non-kiosk related, arguments via the command line. I'm specifically looking at how I can configure kiosk mode itself in line with the quoted text above.

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I did a brief search on this and found the following information. The first link is an explanation from Mozilla on how to initiate kiosk mode. I didn't see any other CLI options there so I did another search which led me to the second link. This link is a comprehensive list of CLI options that Firefox allows. I imagine this should be sufficient to get you moving further. Hope this helps!

[EDIT] To add additional clarity to my answer if you look at the first link I referenced the excerpt the OP quotes is under the Recommended configuration heading. Under that heading are subheadings Command Line Arguments and Policy configuration. Both subheadings are explicitly referenced in the quote the OP provided. The Command Line Arguments subheading is what the OP is asking about. Under this heading a brief example is provided with a simple explanation.

All command line arguments for Mozilla Firefox Command Line are located within the second link that I referenced.It doesn't matter whether you're using kiosk mode or doing general configurations via the CLI. All information for Command Line Arguments will be located in the second link. There's no additional page containing Command Line Argument information/explanation. Feel free to search their wiki which is where the information in that second link is from.

You can also cross reference the information from the example in the first link with their Command Line Argument documentation. Additionally, if you look at the Command Line Arguments documentation it clearly states that --kiosk only accepts a single value and that's a URL of the page you'd like open when Firefox starts.

Sources

  1. Firefox Enterprise Kiosk Mode
  2. Firefox/CommandLineOptions
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  • Thanks for the attempt, but I'm already aware of which other command line arguments can be passed to Firefox. What I'm looking for is how to pass options to configure the kiosk command line argument specifically.
    – Jon Bentley
    Commented May 2, 2022 at 17:12
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    As I said, I'm aware of other command line arguments. Yes, I know that that means I can for example combine --kiosk (which provides kiosk functionality) with --private-window (which provides a private window). I'm not interested in how to do that. My question refers specifically to this: "Numerous features of the kiosk mode are configurable". I'm looking for information on how to access and modify these configurable options for kiosk specifically, not how to combine with other (non-kiosk) features.
    – Jon Bentley
    Commented May 2, 2022 at 18:19
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    Thanks again (although I would have preferred if you could state your opinion without being rude). We'll have to agree to disagree. To me, "numerous features of the kiosk mode" does NOT imply that there is "only one argument that can be provided". The word "numerous" and the word "one" are clearly mutually exclusive. I'd be willing to accept (if it can be shown to be the case) that the quoted sentence is wrong (i.e. there aren't "numerous configurable features" as Mozilla state), but in the absence of that your reasoning doesn't pan out.
    – Jon Bentley
    Commented May 2, 2022 at 19:40
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    It also doesn't follow that the other, unrelated CLI arguments which you can pass could be considered "features of kiosk mode", since they are completely independent of kiosk mode. You've also not addressed how you consider that kiosk mode could be configured via "policy configuration" (which you referred to but didn't elaborate on).
    – Jon Bentley
    Commented May 2, 2022 at 19:42
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