Disable Firefox in Qimo

When I first loaded Qimo onto an older computer the qimo account didn't grant internet access. After setting up two user accounts in the underlying xubuntu updating and adding programs back in the qimo site it is allowing firefox and email programs that i didn't want the kids to have access to. Wondering how I cn disable these features in Qimo and use the xbuntu accounts for updating and limited account for 1 user. Changed the user profiles in xubuntu for the limited account to not have internet access but it still does. these are two separate issues between the Qimo account and the Xubuntu account. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This depends on what you mean by 'disable Internet access'. There is no current preference for disabling, but if you want to not make *web browsing* available, you can 'sudo apt-get remove firefox' from a Terminal. This will of course, leave Internet access available via Instant Messaging, and Internet Relay Chat, among other apps.

If you'd truly like to remove all Internet access, I suggest you remove access to your network or wireless card by blocking the drivers from loading. In which case, we need more information like:
1. Do you need really need *all* network access removed for *all* users? Or just 1 or 2 users?
2. Do you just want browsing removed? Or chat access as well?
3. How are you currently getting Internet access?

If you are comfortable messing with some low-level stuff, you can do something like this on the command line:

sudo iptables -m owner -A OUTPUT -j DROP --uid-owner qimo

This will cause the kernel to drop all packets originating from the qimo user account.

Dan thank you for responding. Ok the only account i would really like to not have internet access ie firefox chat etc is the main Qimo account. I am connecting to the internet by a wired ethernet connection. I tried Mhalls suggestion in a terminal in the Qimo account but it asks for a password which there isn't one and so I logged out and tried running the command in a terminal in the main xubuntu admisnistrative account. Was that right? To many accounts and to complicated getting discouraged here.

My question was how to disable the Internet in Qimo, not administrative tasks. Someone came up with a work around that blocks the online packets and it works so now the kids can play the games in qimo but do not have access to go online. Thank you for your response.