Google is looking to make it easier for users to access the Incognito Mode, right from their desktop on Windows PCs. This feature was first spotted earlier this week in the form of a Chrome flag. But, it wasn’t functional back then. Today, however, you can create a desktop shortcut for opening an Incognito window with a click.
Fire up Chrome Canary and navigate to ‘chrome://flags’ to first enable the feature.
From the dropdown menu next to the ‘Enable Incognito Desktop Shortcut’ flag, you need to select ‘Enabled’ and restart the browser.
This feature still seems to be under development as the shortcut created looks like any other Chrome shortcut. You cannot differentiate between the standard and ‘Incognito Mode’ shortcuts, which really bugs me. The latter should, perhaps, have a gray-colored icon like the Incognito logo.
