Firefox (and other browsers) have a special URI scheme to display internal pages, or built-in functions. These commands start with an "about:" followed something, for example - "about:blank" displays a blank page.
These commands can be quite handy sometimes. For example, yesterday, I was searching for how to use the "sync tabs" feature of Firefox 4 and 5. I knew how to enable tabs sync, but I did not know where I could access the synced tabs. Of course, if I had just gone through the menu, I would have found it under "History > Tabs from Other Computers". But, Firefox 4 and 5 have their menu bars hidden by default, and so I searched online and came upon another way to do that: just type "about:sync-tabs" in the address bar (without quotes), and there are your tabs.
So, I decided to find a list of all about: commands which can be used in Firefox. And I found some easter eggs among them. Here are the commands that I found to be working on my version of Firefox:
Easter Eggs:
Easter Eggs:
- about:mozilla
Shows a verse from the fictional Book of Mozilla.
about:mozilla |
- about:robots
Try it in your own browser, or see the screenshot below.
about:robots |
General Information Pages:
- about:
Shows information about Firefox. - about:blank
Shows a blank page - about:home
Shows the Firefox home page with a Google search bar. - about:addons
Shows the addons page - about:sync-tabs
Shows tabs synced from other computers (tab syncing has to be enabled). - about:sync-logs
Shows the sync logs - about:credits
Shows credits - about:license
Shows the Mozilla Public License. - about:rights
Shows licensing information and your rights. - about:logo
Shows the logo used on the about: screen.
- about:plugins
Shows installed, currently enabled plug-ins. - about:buildconfig
Shows the arguments and options used to compile the Firefox build in use. - about:cache
Shows information about the data in the browser cache. - about:cache?device=disk
Shows the disk cache device info, keys, and data. - about:cache?device=memory
Shows the memory cache device info, keys, and data.
- about:crashes
Shows details of crashes submitted by Mozilla's crash reporter. - about:memory
Shows memory usage. - about:config
Shows the firefox configuration page with a lot of configuration options. - about:support
Shows troubleshooting information.
- about:privatebrowsing
Can be used to switch to private browsing mode. - about:sessionrestore
Shows an interface for viewing about last session. - about:blocked
Shows the malware protection page used when the browser identifies a page as not safe for viewing. - about:certerror
Shows the error page used when an SSL/TLS certificate is untrusted or otherwise invalid. - about:feeds
Shows the page used when clicking the rss feed icon in the address bar. - about:neterror
Shows the error page used when the browser could not access the requested path.
Update : Check my new post for some more "about" commands.
If I missed something, you can let me know in the comments.
Also check :
- Some more Firefox about: commands
- Start Firefox in Safe Mode by holding down the Shift Key
- 20+ Google Chrome's about: and chrome:// commands
- View any Web Page in 3D with Firefox 11
Thanks for the work :)
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chrome://browser/content/preferences/languages.xul
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chrome://browser/content/migration/migration.xul
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