Google chrome secret pages
Some days ago i posted some cool tricks on firefox which shows some secret pages of mozilla. today i am going to post on chrome. There are some hidden pages in Google chrome browser.These pages show information about the browser, its memory ,cache..etc. Just type in the bold codes in the address bar of chrome and see the magic.
about:version - This shows the version of google chrome browser and other details such as webkit and V8 which is the javascript engine and it’s user agent
about:stats - This shows the statistics of browser a list of internal counters and timers.It also has a very funny title “Shhh! This page is secret!”.
about:memory - This shows the memory occupation of the browser and also of other active browsers.This can also be found out by right-clicking on the blue area at top and selecting task manager and at the bottom click on “stats for nerds”. Task manager short-cut Shift + esc
about:network - This page is very much useful for I/O tracking
about:plugins - This page shows a list of plugins that are available in the browser.You can also enable and disable the plugins
about:cache - This page shows the list of webpages that google chrome has cached.It is recommended that you should regularly clear the browser cache
about:cache - This page shows the list of webpages that google chrome has cached.It is recommended that you should regularly clear the browser cache
about:dns - Google Chrome has the ability to prefetch the DNS records for 10 frequently visited hostnames. This is a feature which can be disabled in Options > uncheck “Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance”.
about:histograms - This lists all the histograms for google chrome browser’s internal metrices.
about:internets - This shows the 3D pipe screensaver which gets embedded by Google chrome from windows.this is only possible if you have the file sspipes.scr in C:\Windows\System32.
about:crash - This crashes the active tab.Google chrome displays a sad image with the text “Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page”