Default Parental Controls blocks FaceBook

I just updated my family G4 iMac to Leopard.
On the kids' accounts, under Parental Controls -> Content, I chose the "Try to limit access to adult websites automatically"
My older son logged in and hollered that he could not get to his FaceBook page.
How interesting.
Way to go, Apple.

HI,
"Try to limit access to adult websites automatically"
In Parental Controls click the Customize button. You can setup certain sites for "allow" or "deny" ...
See this video. http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#parentalcontrols
Carolyn

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When I enabled parental controls for my 9-year old, I didn't expect her not to be able to use Google, Gmail and just about every single other website that requires logging in. The reason? Those websites are all https websites and parental controls blocks *ALL* https websites.
With https becoming more and more prevalent on the web, adding an exception is not really an option anymore. I don't want to add an exception for half of the internet. It's gotten so bad that she's encountering a popup several times per minute when just doing a little research for her homework. Web filtering is apparently a whilelist only solution, suitable only for the smallest of children - the ones that you sit next to because they can't type a web address themselves, 5 years or younger.
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I haven't used this feature...
Is there an add-on in Firefox that you can configure? You can check on the Add-ons page. Either:
* Command+Shift+a
* "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons
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Hi, I recently made my son's account on our Mac not the Administrator and I made an account to be the new Admin. This is so that I can turn on the parental controls. I made no choices in the parental controls about iChat, I only used the time limit functions and the log functions. However, now that parental controls are enabled, my son's iChat is not working. It shows up as if he has no buddies, online or offline, and if you add a buddy the new buddy shows up under offline and is blocked. Then the buddy disappears. It seems that iChat is blocking him from talking to anyone. How can you fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Let me see if I have under stood this.
There were at least two accounts on the computer that were Admin ones.
You son had one of these.
You have now made him a Non-Admin and Managed account through Parental Controls
You have created another Admin Account.
With the New Admin account you set the Parental Controls on your Son's account.
You did not do this from the Original Admin Account ?
If......
Your son was using the original Admin account and you set him up with iChat there it will have been linked to the Address Book.
If you then set him up with a new User account that was Not Admin but copied the Address Book across then you can have issues.
I have seen them if you use the iChat/Mail settings where the original Users Info has been transferred across but the Parental Controls overide things (and vice Versa as iChat is then somewhat unusable in the main Admin account as the Buddy List is effectively blocked).
I have not experimented with having two admin accounts and changing the original (first) account to a Managed one.
I have not tried Timed/schedule settings only either
DO NOT DELETE ANY ACCOUNT.
Do things works again if you set him back to an Admin account ?
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Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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Or you can use your Apple ID to register with this site and go the Apple BugReporter. Supposedly you will get an answer if you submit feedback.
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Quick Kick wrote:
Thank you.
But does anyone know the default Parental Controls Settings, specifically under the Other tab?
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howdy my Scotch/Irish brother (I'm Irish descent - actually Norman invader, but hey)
I'm surprised you didn't ask our gracious Hosts to EDIT the live link in the OP's reply - seems very malicious indeed. I reported it already though asking that it be left as merely a domain name - can't save everyone when the ship sinks
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