Last night we released a new version of Plainview. The biggest changes in this version are the addition of a custom user agent string, to help some web apps which use questionable detection methods, some new keyboard shortcuts in response to user feedback, and a few new features for kiosk mode.

Kiosk mode is a way to easily lock users into Plainview, making it a good choice for kiosks where you want to show web (or flash) content, but don’t want the user to have full access to the system. When you enter kiosk mode, you’re asked for an administrator password and then you’re locked in. No menus, no cmd-tab, no bookmarks or location panels, nothing except where the currently loaded site will take you. To this we’ve added a few new bells and whistles. In the preferences, you can now set some options to hide the mouse, and have the app automatically load in kiosk mode.

You can download the new version here, or launch Plainview and let the auto-updater do its thing.