Google Chrome for Linux isn’t out yet, but for the meantime the Open Source Chromium project is doing some nice things. Oh, and it’s really fast too.
If you man chromium-browser, assuming you’ve already installed it from the PPA, then you may be tricked into thinking it has no options. I’ve only messed with a few, but they wern’t documented.
Creating an Incognito Launcher
There is a --incogntio option that you can use, but as far as I can tell there is no icon. I’ve done some slight modifications to the icon and you can download that to your desktop and run sudo cp ~/Desktop/chromium-browser-incognito.png /usr/share/pixmaps/ and create a launcher (or download mine).
Opening a page as an Application
Chrome has the idea of making some pages work more like applications. For example they can just have the native window theme borders and no other doodads.
The launcher needs to use chromium-browser --app http://pandora.com, for example to open Pandora.
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