Google Chrome about:about – main entrance to the “geek” pages
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/21
Google Chrome as a quite extensive collection of about: pages not limited to the empty about:blank and the simple about: info page.
Some of them enable you to view and/or set some geeky stuff.
about:about is the best entrance: it has a list of most of the available about: pages.
An alternative is chrome://about/about/
There are a few more, and some site, including lifehacker published has a nice list in 2008, but since then some of them moved to the regular configuration dialogs.
So here is what still works and what doesn’t (as of Chrome 8.0; 9.0 will change a bit):
Doesn’t work:
- about:internets on Windows 7 (as it has no sspipes.scr)
- about:network
- about:labs (is now about:flags)
Works, but not in the about:about list:
ChromeAccess is an extension plugin that gives you quick access to these pages too.
(Speaking of extensions, there is a FireBug Lite extension for Chrome, and a nice list of popular Chrome extensions)
ChromeFans shows there is also a view-cache: and view-source: prefix.
Finally Zhacks has a list with a few chrome:// pages that are also interesting:
- chrome:extensions
- chrome:history (Shortcut Ctrl-H)
- chrome:downloads (Shortcut Ctrl-J)
- chrome:bookmarks
–jeroen
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Olaf Monien said
Actually Version 10 has been released a few days ago. Devchannel is now at 11. …
They have a pretty fast release/version cycle ;)