Shortcut for opening link in incognito window

[oste0002]

Many users use incognito mode every day and it might be a good feature to make it possible to do this through Vimium as well.

Is this possible? What combination of keys would be best suited for this feature?

[smblott-github]

Thanks, @tkumse.

I'm not sure this warrants a new command (or new vomnibar modes) since Ctrl-Shift-N is available.

[tarek2]

I second this feature, it will be very helpful to have it in Vimium.

[mrmr1993]

Thirded, this would be nice to have.

yf (copy link) <c-N> (open new incognito tab) <c-v> (paste) <ret> also works, but it's clunky.

Phil's idea in #1312 might be a nice way to expose this and other link hints commands without falling foul of #1269, if that was something we wanted to do.

[nfischer]

If the user wants to open an incognito window, Ctrl-Shift-N seems good enough. As I see it, the best Vimium could do would be a two-key shortcut instead of the default three-key shortcut. Not a huge advantage.

Now, if you're talking about opening a link in incognito mode (like @mrmr1993 pointed out), that makes more sense. I'm not sure what the best key-combo would be, so I agree that the idea in #1312 might be a good way to go.

[smblott-github]

Agreed, @nfischer. And #1312 is a nice way of side-stepping the proliferation of Vomnibar modes.

[smblott-github]

This is in #1948.

[Beasta]

For sites like medium.com, I'm constantly yanking the URL, opening an incognito, and pasting into the incognito. Would love to have an means of opening the current URL in incognito.

[snprajwal]

LinkHints.activateModeToOpenIncognito is available and can be mapped for this

[Beasta]

🔥 for anyone interested, i used @snprajwal 's advice above and created a link for capital I under custom key mappings

map I LinkHints.activateModeToOpenIncognito

[snprajwal]

I think we can close this issue, given that the feature has been available for quite some time now.