Google Chrome

I loved Google Chrome at the first time I saw it running on my PC.

It is rather obvious Google is very serious about taking over a chunk of the browser pie from IE and Mozilla. Chrome is attractive. It is comfortable, simple, fast.

And it's good for web developers, by successfully performing on the Acid2 test and having an incredible DOM inspector.

Oh yeah, and some about:*** stuff for you to type in in the address bar. Have fun ;)

about:version - obviously version information (also accessible by chrome-resource://about/)


about:plugins - obviously installed plugins


about:histograms - hey I love this one! don't quite know what this all means though


about:dns - obviously just some DNS stats


about:cache, redirecting to view-cache: - list of cached documents, each viewable in HEX!


view-cache:stats - stats for cached documents


about:stats - obviously just some stats


about:network - that's an awesome tool!


about:internets - oh, an Easter Egg of a kind? look at the page title - The Tubes are Clogged! ;)) apparently, this page will show you the legendary pipes Windows screensaver, if you've got it in your Windows directory


chrome-resource:/new-tab/ - heh, a template for the empty tab page?


chrome-resource:/favicon/http://www.saulis.com - even favicons look like this in the Matrix ;) actually generating favicons of the URL provided


chrome-resource:/thumb/http://www.saulis.com/ - this one generates the page thumbnails for the empty tab page


about:memory - nice memory stats


about:crash - will display the default crash page banner


:% - yes, just this little bit crashes the browser, so don't try it unless you want to loose the opened tabs - doesn't seem to work anymore in the new version which is already 0.2.149.29

I found these myself by digging in the C:/Users/alias/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/Application/0.2.149.27/chrome.dll file (yeah, it looks like it's installed somewhere in there on my Vista 64) - there may be more hidden pages, once you find some - share them ;)

Note to self - most of these address bar strings only work in a freshly opened new, unused so to say, tab.