{"id":11526,"date":"2016-09-04T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2016-09-04T08:17:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:17:26","slug":"chrome-about-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/chrome-about-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome: About Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Chrome: About Stuff<\/h1>\n<p>Chrome has a lot of useful About Stuff. Y<span class=\"auto-style90\">ou can get to it by typing either About: or Chrome with a simple command after it<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">About:\/\/flags is the same as Chrome:\/\/flags&#8230;got it? But you don&#8217;t even need to type the slashes, About:Flags or Chrome:Flags works and saves you keystrokes if you&#8217;re lazy. So to use these commands just type them in Chrome&#8217;s address bar and press enter. You can type a command any of three ways. For example: About:Chrome, Chrome:Chrome or Chrome:\/\/chrome .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style90\">Here is a list of just a few of the many useful Chrome About Stuff:<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">about:flags ( chrome:flags)<br \/>\n<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">View and enable some of the experimental features hidden in Chrome. CAUTION! CAUTION! As noted on this page, these are experimental features and might break chrome leaving it broken or useless. You enable these features at your own risk.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">about:dns (chrome:dns)<br \/>\n<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">Shows you a list of URLs that Google Chrome will prefetch to make browsing speedier.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">about:externsions (chrome:extensions)<br \/>\n<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">Displays a list of installed extensions in your copy of Chrome<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">about:downloads (chrome:downloads)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Displays recently downloaded files &#8211; you can do the same thing with the keyboard shortcut CTR+J <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">about:plugins (chrome:plugins)<br \/>\n<\/span> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">Displays all your Chromes plugins and lets you disable or enable any plugins you have installed. Also, lets you check for multiple instances of Adobe Flash Player which is a major cause of Chrome crashes when using sites heavy with Flash.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">about:bookmarks (chrome: bookmarks)<br \/>\n<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">Displays your Chrome bookmarks &#8211; you can do the same thing with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+O<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">about:memory (chrome:memory)<br \/>\n<\/span> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">This command displays the memory used by Chrome and all other browsers running on the system (including Firefox).<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">This also displays all the process related to browser with their PID, process name, and the amount of memory used.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">about:net-internals (chrome:net-internals)<br \/>\n<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">This displays all networking related information. Use this to capture network events generated by the browser. You can also export this data. You can view DNS host resolver cache.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">about:quota-internals (chrome:quota-internals)<br \/>\n<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">Shows you stuff about disk usage of chrome including a break down of the space used by individual websites in temporary files<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">about:sessions (chrome:sessions)<br \/>\n<\/span> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">Shows you how many chrome sessions (instances) are running, and it is probably more than you think \ud83d\ude42<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">about:settings (chrome:settings)<br \/>\n<\/span> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">Takes you to the Chrome settings &#8211; as if you clicked the settings icon shown at the upper right corner of Chrome.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">about:cache (chrome:cache)<br \/>\n<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">Shows your Chrome cache and lets you browse through it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style7\"> <strong><span class=\"normaltext\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style46\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/chrome-about.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">about:credits (chrome:credits)<br \/>\n<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <span class=\"auto-style90\">The people and foundations and resources credited by Google for things that went into creating the Chrome browsers. You might be surprised how much stuff is here.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style90\" \/> <br class=\"auto-style90\" \/><span class=\"auto-style90\">about:chrome (chrome:chrome)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tells you the version number of Chrome and lets you know if you&#8217;re using an updated version.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style90\">Hope you as much fun with these as we did! What, EB? You didn&#8217;t have fun? Big Surprise! You never have fun! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome: About Stuff Chrome has a lot of useful About Stuff. You can get to it by typing either About: or Chrome with a simple command after it About:\/\/flags is the same as Chrome:\/\/flags&#8230;got it? But you don&#8217;t even need to type the slashes, About:Flags or Chrome:Flags works and saves you keystrokes if you&#8217;re lazy. So to use\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/chrome-about-stuff\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1433],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11527,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions\/11527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}