As we all know about Google's new web browser "Chrome". It was released recently and has been successful in getting good response from users. It has all essential features, good browsing speed and some new features like task manager, etc.
But did you know that Chrome comes with many hidden secret pages which allow you to access hidden settings, stats, etc and one cool easter egg as well?
Yes, Google has put many secret about pages in Chrome for expert users to change hidden settings or to get information about browser statistics, cache, memory usage, etc.
Hidden Secret Pages in Google Chrome:
There are lots of secret pages present in Google Chrome which can be accessed by typing their URL in addressbar and pressing Enter. All known pages at the moment are as following:
chrome://appcache-internals
chrome://blob-internals
chrome://bookmarks
chrome://cache
chrome://chrome-urls
chrome://crashes
chrome://credits
chrome://dns
chrome://downloads
chrome://extensions
chrome://flags
chrome://flash
chrome://gpu-internals
chrome://histograms
chrome://history
chrome://ipc
chrome://media-internals
chrome://memory
chrome://net-internals
chrome://view-http-cache
chrome://newtab
chrome://plugins
chrome://print
chrome://profiler
chrome://quota-internals
chrome://sessions
chrome://settings
chrome://stats
chrome://sync-internals
chrome://tasks
chrome://tcmalloc
chrome://terms
chrome://tracing
chrome://version
chrome://workers
chrome://conflicts
NOTE: You can also access all above mentioned pages by using about: instead of chrome:// in their URLs. For example, you can access chrome://cache using about:cache URL as well.
If you want a Firefox's "about:config" equivalent page for Chrome, check out chrome://flags page. It allows you to change lots of advanced preferences of Chrome similar to Firefox's about:config page.
Hidden Easter Egg in Google Chrome:
To access the hidden easter egg in Chrome, type about:internets in addressbar and press Enter.
about:internets
It'll open a page with title "Don't Clog the Tubes!" and a cool pipe animation as shown in following screenshot:
In some systems (mostly Windows Vista), you might see a blank page with title "The Tubes are Clogged!".
It seems that this easter egg uses a screen saver file "sspipes.scr" present in "%windir%\System32" folder and if the file is not present, you'll see no animation.
If you know about any other hidden secret trick or interesting easter egg of Google Chrome, feel free to share it in your comments...
Posted by: Vishal Gupta | Categories: Google Chrome
Nathan
You forgot about:blank
Sushruta
I wrote about:internets in my win7 amd it loaded nothing but a page which says:
This webpage is not available
The webpage at chrome://internets/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Error 300 (net::ERR_INVALID_URL): Unknown error.
VG
^^ They have removed it.
David
View a list of Chrome URLS by viewing this page:
chrome://chrome-urls/