Nuno Silva

Google Chrome Commands

Google Chrome, like FireFox, has special commands, the about: commands, to show relevant information about the browser.

Here are some of them:

about:cache - Every single url that you visited.

about:dns - A list of used DNSs and response times.

about:histograms - Some text histograms with performance measures.

about:internets - Shows the tube screensaver of windows in the tab. The title shows: “Don’t Clog the Tubes!”.

about:network - shows url information about the current request(s) you are making.

about:memory shows how much memory google chrome and each tab that is open is using. If you have other browsers open it also shows their memory consumption.

about:plugins - a list of all plugins currently installed.

about:stats - a list of statists of the browser. Just a bunch of counter and timers. In the top you can read: “Shhh! This page is secret!”. Google guys have a sense of humour.

about:version - current version information featuring a big google logo (like we didn’t knew that chrome belonged to google).

And finally the “piece of resistence” and my personal favorite,

about:crash - crashes the current tab and shows the sad smile:

06 Sep 08 | Google, Web

3 Responses to “Google Chrome Commands”

Ricardo | September 6th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

E ainda:

about: (equivalente ao about:version)
about:hang
about:shorthang
Nuno Silva » Blog Archive » Firefox Commands | September 8th, 2008 at 7:42 am

[...] Google Chrome (see Google Chrome Commands), Firefox always have had about [...]
Richard | October 17th, 2009 at 3:10 am

about:
internets, network, and stats dont work

The Guy

My name is Nuno Silva and I am the author of this blog. I am a Computer Engineer and have a passion for game development.

So, in this blog you find especially things about the web, game development, software, my personal projects (Orion's belt for instance) and, sometimes, just crazy things that pass through my head.