We’ve already covered how to start Google Chrome and Firefox in private browsing mode. Private browsing is not a unique feature, this feature has been offered by all popular browsers now a days –Opera added this feature its presto version, if you want to automatically start opera in private browsing mode, follow the steps below.
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If you’ve opened a new private tab or private window, all your browsing history, cache, cookies and logins will be not saved during that session however, the bookmarks you made and files you downloaded will be kept.
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- Right click on Opera shortcut on the desktop and select its ‘Properties’
- In the Target field, at the end of the string “C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe”, after giving a space add, –private, and click OK.
The target field should be like this
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe" --private
From now on, use that shortcut to open Opera in Private browsing mode.
To start old Opera (Presto) in private browsing mode automatically
- Right click on Opera shortcut icon on the desktop.
- Click Properties, copy the path of Opera program shown in the “Target” field, which looks like this “C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.exe”
- Right click on the desktop, click New>Shortcut, and paste previously copied path and leave a space and type –newprivatetab and click ‘Next’
- Name it as OperaPrivate or whatever as you like, and click ‘Finish’.
From now onwards, whenever you want to use Opera private browsing mode, click that shortcut.
Does not work with Opera 10.62
It just open a google page with –newprivatetab in the search bar,
Just recheck command line switch, it’s –newprivatetab,those are two hyphens its working for me.