Turning off private mode. Is it possible?

kossano

For certain reasons I need to turn off possibility of using private mode. I can do it on Chrome through regedit but since I really like Vivaldi I wonder if that's possible to be done on it as well.

Pathduck

@kossano Well, how do you do it in Chrome? Vivaldi is built on top of Chromium so chances are if it works in Chrome it works in Vivaldi

See:
https://admx.help/?Category=VivaldiBrowser&Policy=Vivaldi.Policies.Chromium::IncognitoModeAvailability

kossano

That's what I was thinking. But I have no such registry. I've tried to creating one, but no luck.

Edit: Thank you. I've created "folder" Vivaldi in HKEY LOCAL MACHINE according to path you linked above.

james34

Hey Vivaldi Team,

I want to disable or remove the private window option from Vivaldi Browser. I wondered on Google but didn't find answer for Vivaldi browser itself.

Is there any registry edit type solution then please let me know.

Thanks.

Pathduck

@james34 Hello and Welcome to the Vivaldi Community

I have merged your topic with this already existing one which should answer your question.

It helps to search the forum first
(But yeah the forum search is not very good by default...)

Note that this setting is controlled by a System Policy. These are intended for enterprise (company) use, and enabling policies will also disable certain Chromium-based settings in Vivaldi. Generally, disabling Incognito/Private mode makes sense in an enterprise setting, not so much for regular users, that's why it's controlled by policy.

james34

@Pathduck So how can i disable it ? and which functionality will get disabled with it ? and can we enable the private windows again.?

Pathduck

@james34 said in Turning off private mode. Is it possible?:

So how can i disable it ?

I posted this above, it's a system policy (GPO on Windows, can also be set on Linux, a bit different):
https://admx.help/?Category=VivaldiBrowser&Policy=Vivaldi.Policies.Chromium::IncognitoModeAvailability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Policy
https://www.techtarget.com/searchwindowsserver/definition/Group-Policy-Object

which functionality will get disabled with it ?

The browser will be set as "managed by your organisation" and some stuff like DNS-over-HTTPS will be unable to change. I'm not sure what else.

can we enable the private windows again.?

Yes, by removing the policy.

May I ask, what is your use case for this? Unless this is in a work environment and you want to have more control of how the user's browser works, there is little need to disable incognito mode. Just don't open it....