How to create incognito tab from chrome extension

Question

I need to open an url in incognito mode from chrome extension. Opening it in a new incognito window is simple, but there is no such property for creating new tab .

I tried to store the window object created but seems that the callback parameter is always null incognito windows, but properly populated for normal windows.

Is there a way to open url in incognito tab if there already is an incognito window?

The solution here ( How to open new tab in an existing incognito window? ) looks fine, but it does not work for me. No incognito window is returned by getAll() . Does this need any special permission in the manifest (aside tabs ) to work?

Answer 1

It turned out, that I need to explicitly enable incognito access to the extension to get intel about incognito windows, even created by my extension itself.