This is especially useful if you are an admin to any kind of site, but I've also found uses for it outside of the admin realm.
With Google Chrome there is a "Incognito Mode" that starts a private session. It doesn't remember your history, cookies, etc. What I've found it most useful for is logging in as different users!
Sometimes problems happen with accounts, and errors come up, and the only way to figure it out is to log in as that member. But then my sessions and cookies are stuck on that user, and I have to go back and login as me.
Well, not in Incognito Mode! It's almost like having a new browser never used, you can login and it won't try to enter your saved passwords - it even disabled LastPass (password tool for Chrome), and when you are done you close the window and it hasn't effected your logins anywhere. Pretty sweet.
It can also be useful if you are trying to login to a site and it keeps saying invalid login. Rather than do all the clearing of cookies and such, you can open up Incognito Mode and try logging in. You'll know right away if the pw is right or not.
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That’s cool. I only use Chrome for some sites because FF takes forever to display them, especially when they are multimedia or graphically laden.
However, I need ROBOFORM and I don’t trust the IE or FF password tools.
How does Chrome’s security stack up against Roboform
Hey Jerry
Don’t wet your pants but….
http://www.roboform.com/chrome.html
I’m loving it so far :-)
It’s still a lil buggy but by and large, it’s wonderful!
Yeah I might try it. Only issue I had was it said you needed some special version of Chrome. LastPass just did everything for me. But I’ve got some irks with LastPass and trying to insert the wrong logins on me..
Paul, I was about to go grab it when I saw the the scariest word in software development -alpha-
I have visions of of some catastrophic event sending my browser on never ending journey into outerspace with no Barbara Bain or Martin Landau to make things right.
I wonder how many people will recognize that reference to Space 1999.
or does that just prove how much of a Geek I really am?
Interesting application of Chrome. I have hesitated trying it. Have you found that it causes any glitches with your other browsers..ie, FireFox, IE etc? I have had to re-do FireFox many times…I know I am Blonde my machine is picky!
Hi
Nope, it’s a separate browser altogether. There are some browsers that are really IE in a fancy window, which can mess with things, but not Chrome.
Tim
I uninstalled Chrome and Google Earth since Google uses an updater that will magically appear and download unto your PC that has Google Apps on it.
This happened to me 2 hours into Halloween morning. Norton 360 caught it and held the updater until I woke up a few hours later. At first I thought I it was okay, but it was Halloween day and I researched that updater before letting it install to my PC.
Good thing too, since there were a number of problems related to the Google Updater out on the Internet already.
Maybe I am a little apprehensive about it, but there was no warning or choice on my part to install the Google Updater on my PC and if Norton did not stave it off for me I would have never known about it.
I dumped Google Chrome and Google Earth as a result of that sneaky updater. I still use gmail, analytics and adsense but that is all on-line, not on my PC. Maybe later on down the road I will see it differently, but as for today it will stay the way it is.
This might be off topic a little but after seeing the other posts…I too do not use anything for password storage or keep links in FF for too long, because someone actually stole or completely wiped all my links in FF once and that was enough.
Instead now I add everything I want to keep to spreadsheet (Open Office -Calc) and then save as an html file. Be sure to save your Spreadsheet first before doing Save As though. Then I ref that html file as my home page. Voila, everything I need to refer to ie..email accounts, system logins, passwords is all in one portable html file and my Home Page in FF for quick reference, so what little brain I have left can focus on other things.
Yeah but then they can swipe that HTML file. There are browser exploits that you can use to read local files. Hence why many use RoboForm or others which encrypt the passwords.
Yeah, it does get hot and sticky!
Kind of like, just another brick in the wall!
One wall, two men, two sides!
One builds the wall with bricks, while the other, walking on the wild side, terrorizes the wall by sticking bricks down in a hole, already filled or yet to be filled by the other one.
Hey I’m not your stepping stone! There’s 99 ways to keep your cover, when running through the jungle.
Boy , am I bored today…Cl(:o)
Time to do other stuff!
Sal
Havent had the time to check out Google Chorome, but have seen lot of ppl talking about it. IE8 also has a option where u can browse private, but dont the effects of it.
I think it should be noted that LastPass is not just for Chrome – there’s also plug-ins available for FF and IE.
I personally use it for all my passwords (and secure it with a very difficult master password) and had no issues with using it on any of the platforms.
FF newest version also has private browsing option.
Hi Tim, I never try Google Chrome but the function you described can be really useful for many cases, not only Traffic Exchanges related.
For example I can solve a problem with a site in which I’m administrator and I need to login as normal user to check modify.
So thanks for the tip, really valuable !
Goodbye by Alessandro Zamboni
Never tried it yet, hmm i should soon. Thanks for infos :)
I love my Norton360 I do save my passwords there. I don’t trust anyone but my Norton to that job. I really save time now that I am using it.
I’ve been using Safari for a long time. Guess I should give Chrome a try, even though I still think Safari is a great browser (and I don’t need all the extra features/add ons).
But this incognito feature could be very useful to me. Thanks for sharing.
Jens
I am starting to hate firefox as of lately it has been laggy and closes out like IE used to do to me all the time.
I have recently started to use chrome and being open ended great features like the one here are what are going to make it great.
I have used nothing but chrome since about two weeks since it came out.
It is brilliant for surfing keeps all your regular sites in picture form which you just click on so the supersurf are all there in front of me. It remembers all the others I use less often.
When I want hit 2 hit I put in h and it does the rest.
If I put in traffic it gives me all the alternatives I use with the correct URL to log in and some sites straight onto the surfbar without logging in.
It is brilliantly fast for collecting credits for safelists and ad exchanges holding up to 70 sites in tabs. You clear them when it slows down.
The most tabs I have had without it starting to flash is 77.
It remembers all my passwords login URLs e-mail addresses fills in forms.
Just about anything I need.
You do need to save everything off line in case you crash or even worse my last computer blew up on me.
Not quiet as bad as it sounds it just mad a big bang and burned out.
I have found the best thing is to put everything in documents and let Google save them for me.
You can have as many browsers as you like open it just will not let you have two different inboxes open at once.
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