How To Add a Panic Button to Your Web Browser [Video]

If you’re not breaking laws or causing harm, it’s really up to you what you look at on the internet—we won’t judge. But there might be occasions when you don’t want someone in close proximity to see the contents of your open tabs, and that’s where a browser panic button, capable of shutting down your browser with a single key press, can come in handy.

Some of the more innocent reasons you might need this are if you’re playing games when you should be working, and your boss walks past, or perhaps you’re planning a surprise vacation for a loved one, and said loved one comes into the room. As for the less family-friendly reasons, well, you can use your imagination.

Whatever you end up using it to hide, it’s reassuring to have a panic button close to hand, and so we’re glad to see that Opera GX—the Opera spin-off …