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The best way to achieve opening in incognito by default would actually be to change the command that launching it from the menu runs.

 

To do this (assuming you are using the Cinnamon edition of Mint), launch cinnamon-menu-editor from the terminal. Select Internet at the side of the window and double-click on "Brave Web Browser", which should open a "Launcher Properties" window.

 

In the Command section of this window, replace 
/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U
with
/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --incognito %U

then click OK, then Close.

 

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I am not well versed in bash by any means, so forgive me if my question is obvious. I use brave as a browser, and I basically use incognito mode all the time. My problem is that as far as I know Mint, unlike windows, doesn't have an option to set brave to open as incognito by default. Could I write a script to open brave, open a new incognito window, and then close the other window?

 

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The best way to achieve opening in incognito by default would actually be to change the command that launching it from the menu runs.

 

To do this (assuming you are using the Cinnamon edition of Mint), launch cinnamon-menu-editor from the terminal. Select Internet at the side of the window and double-click on "Brave Web Browser", which should open a "Launcher Properties" window.

 

In the Command section of this window, replace 
/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U
with
/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --incognito %U

then click OK, then Close.

 

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11 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

The best way to achieve opening in incognito by default would actually be to change the command that launching it from the menu runs.

Thanks man! For some reason I could never figure out how to do that. 

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