disabling private tab option

I'm not too keen on having kids use opera with private tabs and windows. Is there any way of disabling private tabs and windows so I can trace their surfing history?

Edit the menus and shortcuts to remove any reference to private tabs.

Editing Menus

There's nothing in the standard menu.ini that has anything of editing tabs.

You should comment some lines on that file so references to provate tab/window will not appear:

[Browser Tabs Menu]
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_PAGEBAR_NEW_PAGE	= New page, 1,,,"New item menu"
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE	= New private page, 1,,,"New private page menu"
Feature Private,  Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE	= New page, 1,,, "New private page menu"
Item, MI_IDM_NEW					= New browser window
Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_WINDOW			= New private browser window

[Pagebar Popup Menu]
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_PAGEBAR_NEW_PAGE	= New Page, 1,,,"New item menu"
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE 	= New private page, 1,,,"New private page menu"
Feature Private,  Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE 	= New page, 1,,, "New private page menu"
--------------------1

[Pagebar Plus Popup Menu]
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_PAGEBAR_NEW_PAGE	= New Page, 1,,,"New item menu"
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE 	= New private page, 1,,,"New private page menu"
Feature Private,  Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE 	= New page, 1,,, "New private page menu"
--------------------1

[Pagebar Item Popup Menu]
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_PAGEBAR_NEW_PAGE	= New Page, 1,,,"New item menu"
Feature Private,  Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE 	= New page, 1,,,"New private page menu"

Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE = New private page, 1,,,"New private page menu"

[Pagebar Inactive Item Popup Menu]
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_PAGEBAR_NEW_PAGE	= New Page, 1,,,"New item menu"
Feature Private,  Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE 	= New page, 1,,,"New private page menu"
Item, MI_IDM_CLONE_WINDOW			= Duplicate page
Item, MI_IDM_CREATE_LINKED_WINDOW	= Create linked window
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE = New private page, 1,,,"New private page menu"
Item, M_LOCK_TAB = Lock page | Unlock page
--------------------4

[Dock Menu]
Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_WINDOW			= New private browser window
Item, MI_IDM_NEW			= New browser window
Feature !Private, Item, MI_IDM_MENU_NEW_PRIVATE_PAGE	= New private page, 1,,,"New private page menu"

Put a ; in front of lines above with private on it.

Originally posted by ylrkdr:

There's nothing in the standard menu.ini that has anything of editing tabs.

Note that if you edit standard_menu.ini in the \UI\ folder this will stop your kids switching back to the default menu, but your changes will be over-written on updating Opera (real soon now), so keep a backup of any changes that you make. See my sig for a free backup utility.

If you think that your kids are clever enough to know what private tabs are and how to use them then they are certainly clever enough to find the "Delete private data" dialog, which of course you can hide. And then there is still the possibility to empty the cache via Preferences dialog, which you can't change.....