I want to help my friend open a website in a new incognito window when he performs some mouse gestures (custom stroke in Mouse Stroke - Chrome Extension).
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22mouse stroke eh. – CiscoIPPhone Feb 09 '10 at 09:54
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21you say friend, eh? – Adam Kiss Feb 09 '10 at 10:37
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14This is a good question - not for the porn, but for the ability to have two separate sessions on the same website. – Adam A Sep 22 '10 at 22:08
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3Google lead me here - I was looking for a way to open Facebook/Twitter in incognito windows from a bookmarklet for privacy. Would appreciate any ideas. – edoloughlin May 20 '11 at 18:34
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Chrome extensions with the tabs permission can use the chrome.windows.create method:
chrome.windows.create({"url": url, "incognito": true});
However, to access it, you'll either need to write your own extension or find an existing one which provides a suitable hook (I don't know whether this can be done with "Mouse Stroke"—I'm too scared to look).
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3@CarlosPliego: it's just HTML and Javascript—write one yourself? https://developer.chrome.com/extensions – eggyal Jun 17 '16 at 16:25
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6I dare say this is outdated. In the console it looks like the `windows` object doesn't exist anymore. – Jacksonkr Mar 22 '17 at 18:22
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windows.create still works for me given I use it from the background script.
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