I use this extension called Website Blocker to discourage me from checking Gmail/Reddit. However, it is easy and tempting to open a New Incognito Window; since extensions are disabled in Incognito Mode, I'm still able to browse Gmail/Reddit while in Incognito.
Is there any way to disable Chrome's Incognito Mode in Ubuntu? Ideally, this would encourage me to use my smartphone as a dedicated Gmail/Reddit checker.
Best Answer
To disable incognito on chrome/chromium you need to edit the policies. Doing this will prevent you from opening an incognito window via Ctrl+Shift+n, and will also grey out the incognito window option in the options tab in the corner.
If you're using chrome, create the folder
/etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed
. Or if you're using chromium, create the folder/etc/chromium/policies/managed
.Then create a file in that directory named
test_policy.json
. It can have any name you want, but it needs the extension to be.json
.Open it in your favorite editor and put:
That should do it!
Source: http://www.chromium.org/administrators/linux-quick-start and http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3