Dell Inspiron 5379 2 in 1. Windows 11 21H2 (OS build 22000.1042)
After recently updating to Version 1.44.112 Chromium: 106.0.5249.119 (Official Build) (64-bit) my existing private shortcuts shortcuts failed to work. For example:
After a few unsuccessful attempts I tried run as Administrator, which was successful.
I needed to include the checkmark for run as administrator in Properties, shortcut tab to work around the issue.
what if you type if as --incognito "https://www.google.com/maps/?force=canvas"
If not, you could always go the variables route, so you can add a variable whatever with value --incognito "https://www.google.com/maps/?force=canvas"
and you only need to add %whatever% to the end of the shortcut.
I have brave in PATH and then variables for different things I do. it works great, so it would work better in the shortcut since shortcuts only allow few characters while variables allow… more (don’t know the limit or if there is a limit).
Thanks.
The first option did the trick (with the path to brave.exe, of course). I remember testing the double-dash before writing the question but must have done something wrong.
That said, I still find it strange that my five incognito shortcuts were working until either Brave, Windows 11 or both updated (leaning towards Windows as the trigger) then they all stopped working.