If you don’t want anyone to know what kind of pages you surf, a panic button installed in the browser can be useful.
The browser’s panic button can prevent, for example, a birthday surprise from being ruined. Adobe Stock
Opera, known for its web browser, has introduced a function called a panic button to its optimized Opera GX browser for gamers. A similar feature is also available as an add-on for e.g. Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
Of the users who responded to Opera’s survey, 36 percent say that they have watched “inappropriate material” at school or at work, for example. Almost every third of them also admitted to being caught.
More than one in three have surfed inappropriate sites at school or at work
The purpose of the panic button is to hide all the content currently visible in the browser. The feature can be a big help, for example, when you are looking for a birthday present for your partner and said partner appears behind your shoulder.
Of course, everyone can think for themselves in what other situations the panic button might come in handy.
If you use the Opera GX browser, you can enable the panic button in the browser settings by first activating the Early Bird mode. At least for now, the feature cannot be found in the settings of standard Opera.
Pressing the panic button in Opera GX also clears the browsing history. The button can also be set to work so that when pressed, all open browser windows are replaced with a preset and less suspicious web page.
You can get a similar panic button in other browsers with separate extensions. There are numerous options available, and the easiest way to find an extension intended for your browser is to do a Google search with the name of your browser and the phrase Panic button, for example.
Typically, the panic button is defined as a certain key on the computer keyboard. When pressed while the browser is active, the content is immediately hidden.
Source: Gizmodo