Chrome incognito mode

As a follow up to my admittance of switching over to the Chrome web browser, it would be in good order to share how to use chrome in incognito mode. No, this mode will not make you impossible to track, though it is a feature that assumes you don't want websites to track you down by remembering things about you. To use Chrome in incognito mode, you must run chrome with a parameter. Specifically:

chrome.exe --incognito

To launch chrome without using a command prompt, make a shortcut on your desktop with chrome, and edit the "Target" to be

C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --incognito

You will see a little masked spy in the upper left corner of your chrome window if you did it right... and probably some errors or other demoralizing things if you didn't.

Conversion to Chrome

After many years of using Firefox, I think I've finally converted over to Chrome. Chrome now seems more responsive, uses less memory, and just seems to deliver a smoother web experience. The only thing I use Firefox now is for streaming videos or movies off the internet. For whatever reason, Chrome seems to puke while streaming video still.

So, I guess my "normal" browser is Chrome, while using FF as my "I'm watching movies" mode.

Oh, and I also don't quite understand why Firefox is on a version runaway train. Congratulations FF team, your version numbers are now ahead of Internet Explorer; though I'm a tad concerned that isn't really a good thing. Sure, it might convince some people that your browser must be better because it has a higher version number than IE, but that marketing ploy won't work on a lot of people.