You can reveal a lot of internal Google Chrome browser information by putting
chrome:// in the Chrome address
bar.
E.g., Google Chrome maintains its own internal DNS cache. You
can display the entries in that cache by putting chrome://dns
in the address bar for Chrome. When you do so, you will see information
similar to that displayed below:
| Host name | How long ago (HH:MM:SS) | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| http://support.moonpoint.com/ | 244:53:05 | n/a |
| https://accounts.google.com/ | 244:52:59 | n/a |
| https://chrome.google.com/ | 244:53:45 | n/a |
| https://clients2.google.com/ | 244:53:41 | n/a |
| https://clients2.googleusercontent.com/ | 244:53:37 | n/a |
| https://fonts.googleapis.com/ | 244:53:03 | n/a |
| https://ssl.gstatic.com/ | 244:53:03 | n/a |
| https://www.google.com/ | 244:53:16 | n/a |
| https://www.googleapis.com/ | 244:53:46 | n/a |
| https://www.gstatic.com/ | 244:53:03 | n/a |
You will also see a page load count for web pages.
If you put chrome://downloads/ in the address bar you
will see a list of the recently downloaded files and the URLs that
were used to download them as well as the dates on which the files were
downloaded..
You can view Chrome's history information showing a list of recently
visited pages with the days and times they were visited with
chrome://history/.
You can see information on Chrome's memory utilization, including the
amount of memory used by each Chrome tab using
chrome://memory. That will also reveal the
amount of memory used by other browsers, such as Internet Explorer
and Firefox, that are open on the system. E.g.,
this
is an example from a Windows 7 system where 3 tabs are open within
Chrome, one for Wikipedia, one for Google, i.e., google.com, and one for
chrome://memory itself, which is labeled "About Memory". The
tabs are identified by Tab at the beginning of the name. IE
11 and Firefox 35.0.1 are also open on the system and so information
about their memory utitlization is also displayed.
References:
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12 Most Useful Google Chrome Browser chrome:// Command
By Ramesh Natarajan
Date: October 12, 2011
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