How to open new incognito window with Javascript? (Google Chrome)

Question

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).

Blooper

mouse stroke eh. – Ury

you say friend, eh? – Glower

This is a good question - not for the porn, but for the ability to have two separate sessions on the same website. – Sombrero

Google 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. – Millisecond

Answer 1

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).

Hibbert

can you recommend a simple chrome extension? – Nub

@CarlosPliego: it's just HTML and Javascript—write one yourself? developer.chrome.com/extensions – Hibbert

I dare say this is outdated. In the console it looks like the windows object doesn't exist anymore. – Cynewulf

Can you provide an example for what the manifest.json would look like? – Erdrich

Answer 2

windows.create still works for me given I use it from the background script.

Karinekariotta