It is not always possible to surf the internet freely in your workplace or on a public PC, a bit because some sites, especially those of entertainment and social networks, are really blocked and a little because, even if they were navigable, you must then avoid showing up . It would certainly not look good if the head of the office or a professor from school or university noticed that we are watching funny YouTube videos, sports sites, football or gossip sites (see here the 10 favorite sites visited by the place of work).
In addition, many web-based business applications may contain sensitive data that you do not want and cannot be seen by everyone.
I too have always been on guard in an office, reading personal things or chatting on Facebook, always with an eye to the outside or to the door of the room, ready to close everything in case someone arrives .
At first I did it by hand, then I discovered that there are better ways to close all internet windows and active programs on the desktop, now, if it happened to me again, I would be even more clever and hidden.
In fact, it is not convenient to close everything looking like an idiot looking at the empty screen also because, even if you were not discovered to do your own business, you would still look like an idiot, sleeping or dumbing.
Then the best way is to hide what you are doing in one click, while activating the appearance of a serious and used window at work .
There are different ways to use that can be perfect for hiding the tabs of websites that you want to browse privately and iconizing or closing them .
1) First of all, if you surf the internet with Google Chrome, there is a fantastic extension called Boss Button which puts a button in the upper right corner which closes all the open tabs and opens the white Google page.
The Boss Button is invisible and undetectable if you do not know where it is, it is empty and hides from the external eye.
So if you watch a YouTube video, you are chatting on Facebook and playing some flash game, when suddenly you see a colleague or a boss, instead of panicking and closing each browser tab individually, you press the button that closes everything instantly and opens Google (or another page of your choice).
The wonderful thing is that, by pressing the boss button again, the tabs are reopened before closing.
2) On Firefox you can do the same thing with another type of extensions including:
Panic Button that enables a button to be pressed, at the bottom right of the browser, which closes all the open tabs leaving only one that loads the Google page or another of your choice configurable in the options.
So, if the boss just insists and asks to restore the Firefox window to check what was being done, you can rest assured.
3) Panic Button is a lightweight extension compatible with Google Chrome and also available for Firefox and displays a Panic button at the bottom right of the screen.
By clicking on this button, you immediately go to a pre-configured website in the tab itself, which, for example, can be the Google or Navigaweb.net page.
From the script options in the browser you can define the size of the button, the position of the button and the website that should be opened when panic mode is activated to hide or close open web pages.
4) If you use Internet Explorer to surf the internet, there are no antiboss extensions that close or hide the tabs of the websites.
One solution can be Instant Hidden Internet, a very simple program that does not require installation, where you can choose whether to close or hide browser and chat program windows .
In the configuration panel you choose the combination of keys and, from a drop-down menu, the browser to close (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and others less known) and the chat program such as Skype or Windows Messenger, you can disable the volume of the computer and folder windows.
In general, however, you can enable, on the Windows PC, the buttons that close programs and windows in one click, seen in another article.
hides windows from the desktop completely .
In essence, fooling around in peace while you should be working is possible, with due precautions.
