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Ctrl+Shift+N: Start incognito session in a new window in Google Chrome

Posted in Google Chrome by estephen on September 2nd, 2008

(Since we had yesterday off for Labor Day, two posts today!)

One new concept in Chrome is the idea of an incognito session, where the history and cookies are not preserved. This could be useful if, for example, you’re at a friend’s house or an Internet café, or if you don’t want your spouse to see that you’ve been shopping for a surprise birthday present. Or other things.

To start a new incognito session in Chrome, just press Ctrl+Shift+N. A new window appears, with slightly different coloring and a “secretive browser person” icon at the top.

(To close the incognito session, just press Alt+F4 as you normally would to close a program. All tabs in your new window close at once.)

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  1. on September 5th, 2008 at 8:58 am

    Q: It would be great to have a way to start chrome in incognito mode, perhaps with a desktop icon. Anyone know of a way? Perhaps there’s a command line flag?

  2. estephen said,

    on September 5th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    Agreed — unfortunately, this looks like the complete list of command line options (http://www.ericdlarson.com/misc/chrome_command_line_flags.html) and there’s nothing to start it in incognito mode. Hopefully next build!

  3. GhostlandFan said,

    on October 4th, 2008 at 8:15 am

    i agree, it’s very irritating to have to open chrome first then click to change to incognito mode

  4. Maiboi said,

    on October 19th, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    Are you guys kidding me? It takes about two seconds and is no hassle at all.

  5. Xantes said,

    on January 31st, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Ctrl Shift N is a keyboard shortcut for making a new folder on any place in Windows: either i a partition root, in on a folder as a sub folder or on the PC’s desktop as well.

  6. Bob said,

    on May 10th, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    Jesus, you can’t wait 2 seconds for your porn?

  7. Malibog said,

    on May 16th, 2011 at 6:19 am

    HI… yeah, so is there any way to have a shortcut key for Google Chrome Incognito mode, with the home page set to www.[foobar].com?

  8. A replayer said,

    on July 13th, 2011 at 6:12 am

    Why not´t just do a pogram shorcut for it ?

  9. A replayer said,

    on July 13th, 2011 at 6:14 am

    I don´t know it my don´t work thaat way ?

  10. A replayer said,

    on July 13th, 2011 at 6:15 am

    may * that *

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