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Google chrome about pages
Inside the amazing world of Chrome about pages.

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The new google browser Chrome, based on Webkit is my own favourite browser right now (for google apps anyway) as it really does go like a rocket. This will probably change soon when it gets bloated with plugins, toolbars and google tie-in. A bit like Firefox, Chrome has a wealth of about: screens you can use to view what's going on in the browser. Below is a list of about pages Chrome has available, taken from various blogs, blog comments and looking at the DLLs it uses in a hex editor.

about:config
Shows a blank screen for now

about:memory
Displays more information about Chrome and other running browsers' memory usage than you would possible ever want, unless you're developing a browser of course.

about:network
Displays some fairly basic information about network performance and timings for page requests.

about:stats
In depth information about the innards of Chrome, timers and counters on chrome events from the looks of things.

about:dns
Displays tabular data about which sites are cached. My list contained mostly google dns entries.

about:internets
The tubes are clogged

about:cache
A list of all items in the cache with a link to each item to view it.

about:histograms
An ascii set of histograms of Chrome events. Load time, dns fetch time,favicon fetching and all kinds of things.

about:plugins
Tabular data about the plugins loaded such as flash, wmp, quicktime.

about:version
The current version of Chrome.

about:hang
This causes Chrome to simulate hanging after a bit of a delay. This then causes a hang dialog to appear.

about:shorthang
Similar to about:hang

about:crash
Causes the current tab to crash causing a sad face to appear.