Is this possible to do with StartWebSession, in either with Chrome or Firefox?
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$\begingroup$ There may be a private option some dev here knows about, since you can do this in webdriver: stackoverflow.com/questions/27630190/… $\endgroup$– M.R.Commented Sep 18, 2020 at 1:04
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$\begingroup$ Thanks for the bounty @M.R. I'll post the solution I found $\endgroup$– user5601Commented Sep 22, 2020 at 18:22
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In short, probably not.
There is no default option for this in the documentation (as I'm sure you're aware). Without a change to the internals of the function, this probably only leaves you with the option of running e.g. Javascript code via WebExecute[]; however, this doesn't seem like it will be fruitful based on discussion in How to open a page in incognito mode from HTML?.
Javascript test
WebExecute["OpenPage" -> "https://www.wolfram.com"]
WebExecute["JavascriptExecute" -> "window.open('https://www.wolframalpha.com', '_blank')"]
Success["OpenPage", Association[ "MessageTemplate" :> "Page `page` opened successfully.", "MessageParameters" -> Association[ "page" -> "https://www.wolfram.com"]]]
WebExecute["JavascriptExecute" -> "windows.create()"]
Failure["InvalidInput", Association[ "MessageTemplate" -> "`command` failed.", "MessageParameters" -> Association[ "command" -> "JavascriptExecute"], "Element" -> "windows.create()"] ]
Additional Comments
With an internal change to the function, Chrome could probably be opened in incognito mode easily via chrome -incognito, but that may introduce unexpected behavior (i.e. it may not be a quick addition to StartWebSession[] functionality). If you wish to make a feature request, I suggest you contact Wolfram Support per the guidelines on meta and cite this question.
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The simple workaround is to tweak to WebUnit`Private`setsession by adding the --incognito arg:
setsession[Pattern[sessionInfo, Blank[]], "Chrome", {Rule[Visible, True]}] := post[
sessionInfo, "/session", {
"desiredCapabilities" -> {
"browserName" -> "chrome",
"chromeOptions" -> {"args" -> {"--incognito"}} (* <= fix *)
}
}, {"sessionId", "value"}
]