Google Chrome About and Chrome URLs

About and Chrome URLs
Chrome has special URLs that load application-specific pages, instead of websites or files on disk.
* about:about - List of about pages.
* about:appcache-internals - HTML 5 Application Cache diagnostics.
* about:blank - Shows a blank HTML document.
* about:cache - A list of all the web pages cached by Google Chrome.
* about:conflicts - Modules loaded into the main process and modules registered to load at a later point.
* about:crash - Crash the active tab.
* about:credits - Credits, licenses, and links for all software used to make Chrome.
* about:dns - DNS prefetching engine diagnostics.
* about:gpu - Graphics card information, used to assist in GPU acceleration debugging.
* about:histograms - Detailed technical metrics.
* about:inducebrowsercrashforrealz - Crashes the Google Chrome browser.
* about:memory - Memory used.
* about:net-internals - Network diagnostics.
* about:flags - Experimental browser features.
* about:plugins - List of installed plugins (not extensions), with disable support for diagnostics.
* about:shorthang - Hangs the tab's process, making it become unresponsive.
* about:sync - Synchronization engine diagnostics.
* about:tcmalloc - Stats as of last page load.
* about:terms - Terms of service.
* about:version, about: - Version of Chrome, WebKit, V8, and the command line options used to launch.
* chrome://bookmarks - Bookmark manager.
* chrome://downloads - Download manager.
* chrome://extensions - Extensions manager.
* chrome://history - Page history.
* chrome://newtab - New Tab page.
* chrome://print - Print Preview.
* chrome://settings - Settings manager.
* chrome://view-http-cache - Cached HTTP objects.
* view-cache:url - Shows some under-the-hood cache details.
* view-source:url - Displays the source code of the URL specified.
About:flags
Originally called about:labs, "about:flags" is a place in Google Chrome builds that contains experimental features.<ref name="AboutFlags19Oct10" /> Features available in the developer version of Google Chrome include:
*Side Tabs: Adds a "Use Side Tabs" entry to the tabstrip's context menu. Use this to toggle between tabs on top (default) and tabs on the side. Useful on widescreen monitors.
*Remoting: Enable the UI plus backing code for the Remoting service process, and client plugin. Warning: This is currently for developer testing only. Unless the user is on the dev team and whitelisted, nothing in the enabled UI will work.
*Check for known conflicts with 3rd party modules: Enables a background check that warns the user when a software incompatibility is detected (ie. 3rd party modules that crash the browser).
*CRX-less Web Apps: Enables support for installing Chrome apps that are deployed using a manifest file on a web page, rather than by packaging the manifest and icons into a crx file.
*GPU Accelerated Compositing: Enables 3D CSS and higher performance compositing of web pages using Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) hardware.
*Composited render layer borders.: Renders a border around composited Render Layers to help debug and study layer compositing.
*GPU Accelerated Canvas 2D: Enables higher performance of canvas tags with a 2D context by rendering using Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) hardware.
*Print Preview: Enables an in-tab preview of a print operation. (Currently Print Preview doesn't function correctly)
*Native Client: Enable support for Native Client.
*Web Page Prerendering: Speculatively prerenders complete webpages in the background for a faster browsing experience.(Selectable: automatic, always enabled, and always disabled)
*Experimental Extension APIs: Enables experimental extension APIs. Note that the extension gallery doesn't allow uploading extensions that use experimental APIs.
*Click-to-Play: Enables a "click to play" option in the plug-in content settings.
*Disable hyperlink auditing: Disable sending hyperlink auditing pings.
*Experimental location features: Enables experimental extensions to the geolocation feature. Includes using operating system location APIs (where available), and sending additional local network configuration data to the Google location service to provide higher accuracy positioning.
*Disable HTML5 interactive form validation: Disable showing validation messages and preventing form submission.

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