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.
Did you know that Chrome also comes with lots of hidden secret pages and one cool easter egg?
Easter Egg in Google Chrome:
Yep. There is an easter egg in Chrome. To reveal it, 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.
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, so if the file is not present, you'll not see the animation.
Hidden Secret About Pages in Google Chrome:
There are lots of secret about pages in Google Chrome which you access by typing their URL in addressbar and press Enter. All known About pages atm are as following:
about:about
about:memory
about:stats
about:network
about:internets
about:histograms
about:histograms/Loop
about:dns
about:cache
about:plugins
about:version
about:crash
about:%
about:ipc
about:shorthang
about:hang
about:objects
about:flags
about:net-internals
about:chrome-nativeui
view-cache:[Full_URL_of_Website]
view-source:[Full_URL_of_Website]
This article was posted by VG in following section: Google Chrome.
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Arocks
Thank you for the cool "Easter Egg!"
phrozen
Mozilla have easter eggs too... the concepts with chrome are just the same...
markpogi
nothing happens...... i'm using xp and type about:internets
Paultx
VG, please add to the list:
about:about
about:flags
about:net-internals
about:flags warning: Careful, these experiments may bite
VG
^^ Thanks. Added. :)
RA
about:hang
Page that loads forever
VG
^^ Yeah. Its mentioned. )
me
nothing happens when I type any of those..im using google chrome