All about the “about” pages of Google Chrome
Wednesday, Sep 3rd, 2008 By Nain
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Since its release, Google Chrome has created a lot of curiosity among all geeks and newbies. Everyone wants to know about its performance, its feel while working etc.. Today we are posting the screenshots of “about” pages that are build into this hottest browser on the web.
The about:version page
This is a cool looking about page that shows a Google logo on its left and browser description on the right. You may have a logo other than Google on your about:version page.

The about:memory page

This page has two sections: One shows the memory usage by all currently open browsers. For browsers which use multiple processes, memory reflects aggregate memory used across all browser processes. For Chrome processes used to display diagnostics information are excluded.
The other section is the Processes. It shows details of memory usage for each Chrome’s process.
The about:plugins page:
This page has a number of images to show. We’ll list just one here. This page lists all the plugins that are installed on Google Chrome.

The about:stats page
It displays all the name of the internal counters and timers with their values. Keep refreshing this page to see how values of these counters change with each refresh.

The about:cache page
It lists of all the web pages being cached by Google Chrome. One thing to take care of is that the browser doesn’t have an option to limit the cache’s size, so it’s recommended to regularly empty the cache. Otherwise it can effect the performance.
The about:dns page

The DNS records for 10 most frequently visited hostnames are prefetched by Google Chrome.
The about:crash page
When you hit enter after typing about:crash into the location bar you see the undergiven page displaying a message “Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page”.

The about:histograms page
This page displays histograms for Google Chrome’s internal metrics.

The about:hang page
This is a cool about trick to hang the current active window. As you hit enter after typing about:hang into the address bar, the active window hangs.
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One Response to “All about the “about” pages of Google Chrome”
Good post spilling all the beans of chrome fralities