How to disable/hidden private browsing function, plus making safe for kids

I want to stop the kids going on to dodgy sites and hiding their tracks. Can I the disable private browsing history ? Is there anything else I could consider doing ? I am using Mac OS X and an iMAC.
Any comments welcome.

Are you registered with google? You can review your google search history and that includes searches and sites visited from each search even if you have private browsing on! Safari may not save the search but google saves it on line.

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I found this over at MacRumors
http://guides.macrumors.com/Safari#Disable_Private_Browsing
You must have Xcode installed to do it. 1.6GB download through App Store but it is free.
Good luck.

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Even if it was possible to remove or disable "Private Browsing" then that still won't make it impossible to delete private data like visited websites (history) or cache or cookies. 
There are a lot of ways to clear such data, either via [[Clear Recent History]] or directly by deleting the History in the Library or sidebar. 
Private Browsing makes it easier because all data is kept in memory and nothing is saved to disk, so nothing needs to be removed. 
 
If you want to see which sites have been visited then you should look at others means outside Firefox like a router or firewall with a password protected logging feature that can't be bypassed or a program like Wireshark.
* http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark
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I have 3 young preteen/teenage sons who use our family iMac as their computer. Even though I have a filter on the router to prevent them from getting into trouble, I occasionally check their browsing history just to see when/where they are browsing. On a couple of instances, there has been no history shown for certain websites I know they have visited (per the router report), so I am wondering whether they have activated private browsing to cover their tracks, and if there is parental control function to disable the Private Browsing feature in Firefox.

Thanks Rick for your Quick replay,
As my consultant told me , They will get lot of approval messages so we have to make only one inbox message for approval.
When they select Yes or No , if agreement is not locked by others will get approved or rejected no problem.
But if agreement is locked , it will get checked only after they hit approve or reject so i will be displaying a message to them that this agreement is locked Hit Cancel button and do the Task later .
so the approver will comeback at later at 20 or 30 mins and will execute the workitem which on double clicking will execute the already selected ( approve or reject ) status change only .
This is how i suggested them and they said okay.
Only problem they are saying with LOOP is they have to refresh the SBWP inbox when ever they met with lock of agreement .
If you still feel using loop and sending again is the best way i will try to ask them again and see.
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Brahmam

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Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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Is there a way to delete (not disable) "Private Browsing" function so it isn't available to my teenagers?

It is strongly discouraged to delete nsPrivateBrowsingService.js as it can cause Firefox to malfunction.
See this comment from Dave Garrett: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471658#c27
You can also look at [/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&comments_parentId=419486#threadId429160]

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*https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-private-browsing/
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