Open shortcuts in private browsing
I want to open some shortcuts in private browsing. I know I can do this with links Is there a way to do this with selected shortcuts?
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Are you talking about keyboard shortcuts that works in a browser? If yes,then you can see through this document,tailored for shortcuts in browser.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly
I can see this all works fine with both mode of firefox.
The-edmeister - the list is interesting but does not allow me to simply right click some (not all) icons of a shortcut on my desktop to open it is private browsing. Like I can do with a link. I don't want to have to type something to the property of each icon.
I did not mean to click "solution" to Chanden's post. That is not what I would like, nothing to do with keyboard.
You can use an extension to get Private Browsing mode support per tab.
Private Browsing mode tabs get a dashed underline You can toggle Private Browsing mode on/off via the right-click context menu of a tab
This extension also supports the private: protocol to open a link in a Private Browsing mode tab.
cor-el - I'm not interested in a tab. And I know about links.
I want to right click the icon of a shortcut on my desktop and be able to open the shortcut in a private window. Like you can do for links.
What I posted is how to do that from desktop shortcuts. It does involve editing the Properties for each shortcut, unless you set that up in a batch file. http://steve-jansen.github.io/guides/windows-batch-scripting/
If you mean a "Favorite" or .url shortcut, Windows is very stubborn about how those are handled.
A "dirty" workaround would be to have two .reg files to manipulate the open command for FirefoxURL in the Windows Registry.
.reg FILE #1 (default)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxURL\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe\" -osint -url \"%1\""
.reg FILE #2 (private)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxURL\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe\" -osint -private-window \"%1\""
But you would need to change your opening mode before accessing a shortcut or link if you wanted it to be different from what was used for the last one.
About 10 years ago I created a workaround on another forum that involved using the Send To menu and a .bat file that ran a VBScript to extract the URL of the shortcut and launch it in a non-default browser... I don't have it handy and don't know whether it would work on Windows 10, but I might be able to dig it up and update it.
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the-edimeister - I do not want to edit properties of a desktop shortcut. I want this to work like when you right click a link.
This is really important. Right now I am set to always have private browsing. That means I have to logon to each website, like this one, every time I visit. If the shortcuts worked like links, then I could turn off private browsing all the time, and selectively right click links and shortcuts to open them in private browsing when I need to - without editing properties of each one.
jscher - someone coded Firefox to have an option when you right click the link to open the link in a new private window. I'm hoping the developers could also do this for shortcuts.
netemouse said
jscher - someone coded Firefox to have an option when you right click the link to open the link in a new private window. I'm hoping the developers could also do this for shortcuts.
Of course Firefox has full features when you're inside the program. From what I can see, though, Windows doesn't allow browsers to register context menu items for .url shortcuts the way they can for, say, .htm files. You get "open".
What might work is for someone to create a small program that could be made the "default browser" and would displays your choices every time you access a shortcut or link, including regular or private in the major browsers that support command line selection. Perhaps it also could learn on a site by site basis what you prefer. Maybe an intern could whip this up. Or the European antitrust court could order Microsoft to do it. ;-)