Many useful features of Chrome don't show up on its menus. You can access them through the chrome:// command. In this article we will introduce 12 useful chrome:// commands.
1. chrome://flags
It can be used to turn on or turn off some chrome features.
2. chrome://dns
This command will show the domain name list caught by the browser.
3. chrome://downloads
You can access this through chrome menu as well. The shortcut is Ctrl+J
4. chrome://extensions
This command equals to Menu->Tools->Extensions
5. chrome://bookmarks
This equals to Menu->Bookmarks->Bookmark manager. The shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+O
6. chrome://history
This one equals to Menu->History. the shortcut is Ctrl+H.
7. chrome://memory
This command will redirect to “chrome://memory-redirect/”. It will show the browser memory usage status. and other browsers running on the system including Firefox. It will also show the browser processes.
8. chrome://net-internals
This command will show the network information and the network events of the browser.You can export data and the DNS cache.
One important function is testing, If you cannot access some URL, you can open “chrome://net-internals” -> Click "Tests" tab->Enter the URL to test. Chrome will report the error details.
9. chrome://quota-internals
This command will display the disk space usage status of the browser.
10. chrome://sessions
This command will show all session information.
11. chrome://settings
You can access it using Menu->Options as well. It can access all the settings of the browser.
12. chrome://sync-internals
This one will show the sync status of Chrome.
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Finally, you can use chrome://about/ to access all chrome:// commands.
Note : You can access above commands using about:xxx as well, it will be redirected to chrome:// automatically. For example:
about:dns
chrome://dns
