Google Chrome’s About pages and Easter eggs
Posted on | September 18, 2008 |
Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox have carried a few easter eggs hidden in their about: pages for long. Like Mozilla’s about:config, The Mozilla Book and Robots pages, Google Chrome too comes with a dozen about: pages covering everything from plugins, stats and cache to histograms and dns.
- about:
Displays version number for the underlying Chromium browser engine, Apple Webkit rendering engine and V8 javascript engine. Also displays the User-Agent string used by the browser. - about:version
Same output as displayed by about: - about:memory
Displays a summary of memory usage and process information of all the browsers running on the system. - about:plugins
Similar to the option available with Mozilla’s browser family. Displays a list of plugins installed with the browser. - about:cache
Displays a list of all the web page assets locally cached by the browser to improve performance. It also has an option to manually clear the cache. - about:network
Displays all the network IO happening while loading the webpage. This page is similar to the network io monitoring provided by Firebug’s net tab or the Live HTTP firefox extension. - about:dns
Displays a list of DNS records Chrome has prefetched based on the user’s browsing patterns, to improve the browsing speed. - about:stats
This page contains several configurable settings for tweaking and fine tuning browser’s behavior. Shhh! This page is a secret! Dont tell anyone. - about:histogram
Displays histograms, graphs and several statistics related to the browser’s engine and application behavior. - about:internets
This about page is an easter egg that displays the popular Windows98 pipes screensaver. Ah, reminds those old days! - about:hang
Hangs up the current Chrome process - about:crash
Duh! Try this only if you are in habit of watching your browser crash and want to do same to Chrome.
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