04 Sep 08 Easter eggs come with new Chrome browser by Google
When you don’t just type in a word in the omnibox of Google’s browser, when you don’t type in a url but start to get a little creative you can find an easter egg which has been put in Chrome by typing in:
about:internets
in the adress bar of the browser. You will see all kinds of pipelines generated on your screen, almost like the browser has a build in screensaver. People are currently trying to type in about:anything to discover more easter eggs in Google’s new browser. If you wish you can check out the source code of what produces the pipelines in your browser since Google Chrome is open source, so check out the code
Several other options have been discovered by people, Chrome seems to have several special about pages, here are a few of them:
- about:memory
- about:stats
- about:network
- about:internets
- about:histograms
- about:dns
- about:cache
- about:plugins
- about:version
All of these seem to have a specific funtion, most of them provide detailed statistics on things like the browser cache, memory and network statistics. There is also a version page mentioned which is pretty standard.
This statistics page shows the amount of memory consumed by Google Chrome at any given time but also what other browsers are using when they run simultaneous with Chrome.
This image shows what plugins are currently loaded into Google Chrome at time of usage. A handy feature that exactly shows what is loaded at any given time.
Histogram statistics provided by the browser.
The DNS statistics page shows all details about the domains that get resolved with Google Chrome and what amount of time it takes to resolve each particular domain. Something like this can help you to determine a good webhost service for example. Google Chrome calculates the minimum, average, maximum time for the applicable prefetch time in milliseconds and also does this for the recent resolution time.
We also have a statistics page about the statistics which Google Chrome collects from the Browser. I’m sure it collects more than just statistics, Google admitted it collects surf behaviour and sends this data back to Google so it’s fair to say that Google Chrome and how people are using it will have an influence on Google’s search engine. What better tool to collect information on the surfer’s behaviour than collecting it from a webbrowser.
Great one! Is it works on vista too?
Hi
It’s uncommonly, very interesting thoughts