The Google Chrome developers release 10 new versions of Google Chrome a day, each with some kind of minor enhancement. Earlier I wrote about how to export Google Chrome bookmarks, a process made drastically simpler with the newer releases.
If you download the latest release from thenightly builds, you’ll now be happy to know that you can add a command line switch to open the Chrome browser in Incognito Mode. This is nice because to open the browser in Incognito Mode right now, you have to open the normal browser window, click on the Tools icon and then choose New Incognito Mode window, which is a pain.
First, copy the Google Chrome shortcut that you have on your desktop so that there are two icons.
Now right-click on the copy and choose Properties. In the Target box, go all the way to the end and add the following text to the end:
–incognito
Note that there is a space after the end quotation mark and before the two dashes. Now click OK and double-click on your new icon. And viola! An Incognito window pops up!
You can now rename the shortcut to something more appropriate and use Chrome in Incognito Mode directly. Basically, the browser in the mode will not store your browsing history, IP addresses, cached page text, snapshots of the pages you visited, or records of anything downloaded. Enjoy!
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