Comments on: Google Chrome Incognito – Mac OSX Perfect Solution

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:15:57 +0000

I played around with it and found a way to improve the script! The problem with the do shell script above is that it will launch a new window and dock icon (which is weird) every time it is run. The following will detect an open instance of Chrome and prevent that. Thanks again for the original script, Cool Geex!

tell application “Finder” to set tProcesses to name of processes
if (tProcesses does not contain “Google Chrome”) then
do shell script “open -a Google\\ Chrome –new –args -incognito”
end if

By: DV

DV — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:30:06 +0000

100 thank yous for the Leopard addition!!

By: Cool Geex

Cool Geex — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:06:13 +0000

Did you save google.com as your home page?
This is the way that the script knows what window to close.

You can also remove the following code from the script:
tell menu bar item “Window”
tell menu “Window”
click menu item “Google”
end tell
end tell

tell menu bar item “File”
tell menu “File”
click menu item “Close Window”
end tell
end tell

*But remember it will not close the first window.

Also, I tried all that methods on Snow Leopard, If you are running Leopard it might be different.
I’ll try to find the right way for Leopard and update the post.

By: DV

DV — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:08:59 +0000

Max OS X: v 10.5.8

Chrome: 4.0.249.43 (up to date)

I also visited your previous link and tried using that Mac method. The script was entered and compiled, and while pressing Run did open a new Incognito window, the script wouldn’t work, and I got the error:

System Events got an error: Can’t get menu item “Google” of menu “Window” of menu bar item “Window” of menu bar 1 of process “Google Chrome”.

By: Cool Geex

Cool Geex — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:52:41 +0000

What version of OSX & Google Chrome are you using?
I got lots of Positive feedbacks for that post.

By: ct

ct — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:51:45 +0000

Nope. Neither the script nor the program work, regardless of rewriting it.

By: DV

DV — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:29:22 +0000

Sorry–I really should have specified:

That’s the error I received after downloading your app. The very same error occurs when I try to manually write the scripts. ‘args’ appearing with one ‘-’ is just the chat, on my screen it appeared with two.

By: Cool Geex

Cool Geex — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:12:45 +0000

Hi DV,
Do not Copy Paste the code, Just reWrite it.
When you copy HTML and Paste it to terminal it using different character set.
You can also download the Application, this is the easiest way. (Don’t worry – it is Safe)

If you don’t want to download the App, just make sure that you write the code and that there’s 2 minus characters before new and args.
Terminal: open -a Google\ Chrome --new --args -incognito
Script Editor: do shell script "open -a Google\\ Chrome --new --args -incognito"

Good Luck

By: DV

DV — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:00:15 +0000

Help?

open: unrecognized option `–args’
Usage: open [-e] [-t] [-f] [-W] [-n] [-g] [-h] [-b ] [-a ] [filenames]
Help: Open opens files from a shell.
By default, opens each file using the default application for that file.
If the file is in the form of a URL, the file will be opened as a URL.
Options:
-a Opens with the specified application.
-b Opens with the specified application bundle identifier.
-e Opens with TextEdit.
-t Opens with default text editor.
-f Reads input from standard input and opens with TextEdit.
-W, –wait-apps Blocks until the used applications are closed (even if they were already running).
-n, –new Open a new instance of the application even if one is already running.
-g, –background Does not bring the application to the foreground.
-h, –header Searches header file locations for headers matching the given filenames, and opens them.