google-chromeprivate-browsingwindows 8
I had about 20 tabs open in Google Chrome, and about 5 in the incognito mode which is basically a personal version with its own set of daily use tabs, I know that when I close my incognito window I need to sign in back to all the tabs and recreate, but I now closed the main window.
I clicked on chrome from the taskbar but that opens up the incognito mode, is there a way to open the main mode, which will automatically open from where I left off (because thats how its setup to open).
Does that mean that I am not really incognito? Can the website see my username even if I don't explicitly log in? O
Incognito means Chrome destroys all cookies created & doesn't record any websites that you visited. The passwords are filled in from Chrome's password manager, not from the site.
Incognito is also a client-side, browser-specific implementation - it doesn't mean no body will be able to track you.
Read Chrome's incognito message:
You've gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.
Going incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers
When you go incognito you ask your browser not to identify you to the sites you visit. It does that by (among other things) not exposing its cookies. Exposing the stored username in this mode does not make sense to me (but maybe I'm missing something...).
No, you've misunderstood here. Incognito mode works by destroying the cookies after the session is complete( which is signaled by you closing the incognito window). Incognito does not mean do not identify myself, it means do not keep a track of my activities when I'm on an incognito session.
The thing you are missing is how incognito works - the browser does not present any cookies - that does not mean the browser does not know which website you're visiting - the username/password is fetched by the browser by matching which site you're on - not via cookies.
You cannot open multiple windows in modern UI chrome, and that's the case even for incognito.
You can see that it's obviously still the same application, because there is a switch between the 2 modes:
Best Answer
Ctrl+N will open a new window (normal, not incognito)
followed by:
Ctrl+Shift+T will open the last set of open tabs
As indicated in other answers you can right-click chrome icon on taskbas and select "New window"
The benifit of using shortcut method is that it will work the same way on Windows and Linux machines.