Incognito from Taskbar icon

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randydover
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Incognito from Taskbar icon

Post by randydover »

I've seen other posts on this, but not much traction.
Is it possible to have an option to right click the icon, either on the Start Menu or the taskbar and launch the browser in Incognito mode? Google Chrome and Google Canary have the option, so it can definitely be done in Chromium. Or InPrivate like MS Edge.
I'm running Version 91.0.4650.0 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Abrax87
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Re: Incognito from Taskbar icon

Post by Abrax87 »

randydover wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 1:18 pm ... Is it possible to have an option to right click the icon, either on the Start Menu or the taskbar and launch the browser in Incognito mode? Google Chrome and Google Canary have the option, so it can definitely be done in Chromium. Or InPrivate like MS Edge.
I suppose you are running Iron on the Windows platform? You mentioned MS Edge after all. :ironvsie
You should give info what OS is used, just to make sure ppl could try helping you properly.

For Windows:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/140 ... ndows.html
Basically what you are doing is:
- you create a program shortcut file on the Windows desktop (right click > new > shortcut),
- add a parameter called " –incognito" at the end (be aware of the extra space first), also add another icon,
- drag this shortcut and pin it to the taskbar, from there you can start the incognito mode by clicking.

For Ubuntu Linux, with other dists there are similar ways:
https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-how-t ... y-default/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/883387/ ... nitys-dash
Basically what you are doing is:
- copy the chromium-browser.desktop file (or similar name) out "/usr/share/applications", give a different name,
- change first line starting with "Exec=" in the file to "Exec=chromium-browser --incognito" (again, watch space),
- you can also change values, add a differing icon by pointing to its path in the .desktop file,
- put file in "/home/<username>/.local/share/applications" folder, an extra entry will show up in the Dash launcher.

Pretty much the same principle I'd say. Guess for OS X there is a similar way to achieve this, putting an extra entry to Dock or Launchpad, same would be true for Android variants and their launchers in use.

Mentioned in one article answer is, one should better not mix normal and incognito modes, by starting the browser two times, so two entries with differing icons would be best, for orientation. One could also try to jam in an entry to the right click menu, but I'm not so sure ppl wouldn't inadvertently launch the 'wrong' mode, so again, two separate entries to click on be smartest.

As for linking a different icon with your entry, here sb created a nice 'dark' Iron one, for personal use:
https://www.pngkit.com/view/u2t4r5a9r5y ... ware-iron/
You might want to resize a copy to the usual default (not sure, 256x256 pixels or sth may be okay?), using a picture editor.
Name the resized file the way you want, put it into 'Iron' folder (or where you like), link your shortcut file to its path:
- with Windows shortcut file do a right click > settings, a dialogue with file settings opens.
- click the button to change symbol/icon, add the path to icon and choose it, click 'okay' button to save.
- in Linux, in the .desktop file add path and name to the icon after "Icon=" value, save change.

You might want to restart once, to make sure all is set and in place. Hope this helped you.
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