It’s worth noting that Incognito mode is not some way to browse the web securely or anonymously. For example, you can still be tracked online by your ISP, your employer or by the website you are visiting. In Incognito mode, cookies are not downloaded, but web sites can still see your IP address. In addition, you can still be infected by malware or spyware if you visit malicious sites. ..

Chrome has a great feature called “Incognito Mode.” This mode allows you to erase your browsing history on the local computer. You can do this in two ways: by right-clicking on the Chrome taskbar icon and choosing “New Incognito Window” from the menu, or by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+N and Command+SHIFT+N on OS X. ..

If you use Incognito mode a lot, a good idea might be to create a shortcut that opens Chrome directly to Incognito mode. In this article, I’ll show how to create the Incognito shortcut in Windows and OS X.

Windows Incognito Shortcut

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome If you have a Mac, the path is: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome

Right-click on chrome.exe, select Send To and then click on the Desktop. ..

In the Properties window, click on the Security tab and then click on the Advanced button. Under the Security section, you’ll find a setting called “Chrome Settings” and under that, you’ll find a setting called “User Data.” Under User Data, you’ll find a setting called “Data Execution Prevention.” Click on the checkbox next to Data Execution Prevention and then click on OK. Now close Chrome and reopen it.

Click on the EXE file you want to target.

Type in –incognito and press enter.

If you’re prompted to allow the change, click Allow and then OK. If the shortcut still doesn’t work, try uninstalling and reinstalling it. ..

If you right-click on the “Incognito Window” shortcut and choose “New Window”, you will see a new window open that is called “Incognito Window”. It’s probably a good idea to change the name of this window too so you can differentiate between the two windows.

If you want your Incognito browser to open automatically when Windows starts, you can use another command line parameter and just add it after the –incognito parameter. The parameter to accomplish this is –auto-launch-at-startup.

OS X Incognito Shortcut

OS X doesn’t allow users to add Chrome’s incognito parameter from the right-click menu like on Windows and other operating systems. To do this, users must create their own little application that runs Chrome with the same incognito parameter. This process can be a bit complicated, but it’s not too difficult to do. ..

Once the Script Editor opens, you will see a blank document on the screen. To begin, type the following code into the editor: tell application “System Events” to keystroke “command-option-left arrow” Now, when you press the left arrow key on your keyboard, a message box will appear that says “The system returned an error. (code: -2147467259).” This is because AppleScript doesn’t understand what “command-option-left arrow” means. To fix this, we need to tell AppleScript what this keystroke means. To do this, we need to add a function to our script. To do this, click on the plus sign next to the function name and type in “keystroke”. Then, after you’ve typed in “keystroke”, press enter. The editor will automatically add the parentheses and curly braces for you. After you’ve added the function, your script should now look like this: tell application “System Events” to keystroke “command-option-left arrow” if (errorlevel) then tell application “System Events” to quit end if ..

New Document Name: MyProject Description: A new project file.

Now click on File – Save and you’ll get the Save As dialog box. First, give your application a name. This is basically the shortcut name. Next, for Where, change it to Desktop. Lastly, change the File Format to Application.

You can now open Chrome in Incognito mode by clicking on a shortcut that is actually an application in OS X and it will open it in the default incognito window. The only problem is that Chrome cannot already be open.

var myData = []; myData.push({ name: “John”, age: 25, job: “Developer” });

This script will close all current Chrome windows and then open a new incognito window. This is still not a perfect script because all your other Chrome windows will be closed. Luckily, there is one more script you can try that does get the job done properly.

This script will keep any current Chrome windows open and will open a new window that is in Incognito mode. The only issue is that the icon for the application is just the default Script Editor icon.

To change the icon for an application on a Mac, you need to click on the icon in the upper left corner and then paste the new icon. ..

When you click on the icon at the upper left, it will be highlighted in blue. Before you paste a new icon, you will have to find one and copy it to the clipboard. On Macs, you can’t use JPEG or PNG images, ICO files or anything like that. You can either use icons already on the system or you will have to create an .ICNS file, which is the icon file format for Macs. ..

If you’re using Chrome on a Mac, you can open the Applications folder in Finder and get information about the current Chrome icon by doing:

  • Open Finder and type “Get Info” into the top left corner of the screen.
  • The Get Info window will open and will look like this: You can see how many tabs are open, how much storage space is used, and whether or not Chrome is currently running.

Copy the script editor icon to your desktop and open the Get Info screen on the new application. Select the script editor icon and press COMMAND + V to paste it. You’ll now have a nice Chrome icon on your desktop that you can run on OS X to open an incognito window without messing with your regular Chrome tabs.

If you run into any trouble during the process, please post a comment and I’ll try to help. Enjoy! ..