So, I’ve been playing with Google’s new Chrome browser today. So far, I like the feel of it. I do miss a couple of the IE plug-ins (oddly, the Google Toolbar is one).
In general, I find that it loads faster and displays pages faster. This is particularly true for pages that are heavy on JavaScript.
The guys at Gizmodo have an article full of information about some special ABOUT: pages that Chrome supports. They are as follows:
- about:memory – shows memory usage for each process
- about:stats – shh, this page is secret
- about:network – does some real-time monitoring of network traffic
- about:internets – easter egg
- about:histograms – demonstrates how long different tasks take
- about:dns – performance of the DNS servers
- about:cache – shows the content of your browser cache
- about:plugins – shows plug-ins and their MIME mappings
- about:version – just what it says
In addition, there is a page with the URI: “view-cache:[URL]“. This gives you the headers and actual cache content for an item. You must put in the entire URL (“view-cache:http://www.conceptcreek.com”) and it will only give you information about the specific item. For example a page, but not the images on it. If you want the image you must put in the URL for the image.
I’m perty excited about Chrome and having access to internals like this will make it a quick favorite for developers.