Saturday, 11th February 2012

The About:Internets Easter Eggs Of Google Chrome

Google Chrome Logo Similar to FireFox, Google chrome also has many about:internets easter eggs which can provide you better control over your Google Chrome installation. Here I have listed all the Google Chrome easter eggs which might be of your help and will keep updating the post as I come to know about more of these.

All you need to do is type about:<easter egg name> and hit enter. Let me list all those that I could collect. Thanks to Techzilo for the inspiration.

about:crash

Well, it won’t help you recover from crash but it actually will crash Google Chrome. Once you type this and hit enter then you will be greeted with the Google Chrome ‘sad tab’ image shown below.

about:internets

This isn’t of any real use and it just displays the famous pipes screensaver of windows. See the image below.

about:hang

Well, this is the easter egg that will actually help you recognize the tab which is creating problems and later on close it.

about:dns

This will make Google Chrome prefetch the DNS records for 10 hostnames which are frequently being visited.

about:network

Type this in omnibox, hit enter, click on “Start I/O tacking” and then open a new website in another tab. You will see the links to all images, objects, scripts etc. of that website in this about:network omnibox.

about:memory

This will help you compare the memory being used by various browsers that are open at that time and compare that memory use with that of Google Chrome

about:plugins

This is used to know more about the plugins that are installed with Google Chrome. With plugins I mean flash player, real player etc. and not the extensions which are installed firefox.

about:stats

Every minute detail which is running with Google Chrome is displayed with this page.

about:histograms

This will list many histograms that which reveal the internal working of Google Chrome.

about:cache

This will list the sites that have been cached by Google Chrome.

about:version

You guessed it right. It displays the current version of Google Chrome. Remember to check for latest Google Chrome builds using this small app.

And you can get a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts for Google Chrome over here.

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