Glubble never wipes out your bookmarks. Glubble disable your bookmarks if -and only if- a child is using the browser or if you lock the browser. It means that if you sign in as an adult/parent, then you will have your bookmarks there, intact. Reason? Well, quite obvious: you don’t want your child to have access to your internet banking site with a saved password, and start playing with it, right?

In you lock the browser or use it in child mode, Glubble use prevents some other unsafe things, like the history menu (so that the child can not see which sites his parent was visiting) and the installation of other Mozilla Firefox Add-ons (to prevent child to install unwanted software in the browser).

The same Glubble family can be used in several computer at the same time, so the parent can have Glubble in his machine, and the child can have Glubble on his small PC. If the parent is the only one using the browser, there is an option that is shown while signing in, that allows the parent to use the browser as they always do, with no locked mode page, etc, but they will still be notified about the requests coming from the child.

Also, about search engines: you can allow your child to use any search engine. By default we filter content inside Google, to prevent your child to see unsafe sites. However, you can grant her access to other engines, such as Ask4Kids, Yahooligans, Creative Commons, etc: this is all up to the parent.

Finally, yes, the 2.0 version will be definitely much more fun, but … why not give version 1.0 a try and learn how to use it?

Are you referring to the bookmarks not being visible when running in the “Child Interface mode”?

If so you will discover they are still present in “helper mode”

Thanks for the heads up, we are listening to you, wow, real concern about the bookmark issue, we’ll get back to you with an update on that asap.

Your right, we do know a thing or two about building pro-add-ons for Firefox, Glubble is our own project/cause that became out own product/mission.

are you running Firefox 2 or Firefox 3 RC1 ?

Thanks for the help.

Ian Hayward
Founder, Glubble & Glaxstar.

ps. did you know that Glubble has automatic roaming profiles built in? Meaning install the add-on on any Firefox installation and your child is automatically good to go.