50 Interesting Chrome Commands That You May Not Know

       

     Have you seen "chrome://" prefix when you access options of chrome browser? Some features are hidden from the menu, you can access those features by using Google chrome commands like 'chrome://version'.  It will show you the information about Chrome browser's build information, JavaScript version, User agent, Executable path etc. I am going to unfold most useful chrome commands that you haven't tried yet. Your can speed up your work by applying these commands to your Chrome browser. It includes user, OS, and Debug based commands. You must include a prefix 'chrome://' before every command.

Google Chrome Commands for Local use

1. Show the browser information

Open your chrome web browser and enter the Chrome commands in address bar:

chrome://version

You will get chrome version, Blink, WebKit Information, Profile path, and command line access information after executing the above command.

2. To Get History

chrome://history

It will show the history page, you can also access history by using short cut CTRL+H. or  Menu > History

3. To get the settings Page of Google Chrome

chrome://settings/

Alternative way : Menu > Settings

4. To access extensions including installed, disabled

chrome://extensions/

Alternative way: Menu > Tools > Extensions

5. Get Updates and Help

chrome://help/

6. List Downloads

chrome://downloads/

Alternative way : (Ctrl+J) or Menu >Downloads

7. Get Bookmarks

chrome://bookmarks/

8. To clear browser data

chrome://settings/clearBrowserData

it will help to vanish browser history, cache, Auto-fill form data, De-authorise content licence etc.

OS Level / Developer Commands 

9. To get cookies and site exceptions

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#cookies

10. To Get Policy Details

chrome://policy

11. To get the modules loaded into to the Chrome, Trace out conflicts

chrome://conflicts/

This page shows the list of modules loaded into the main process and modules registered to be loaded at a later point.

12. To fetch the DNS records

chrome://dns/

13. Get Memory Information

chrome://memory 

It revels the memory used by Google chrome browser.

14. Get Advanced Sync Settings

chrome://settings/syncSetup

15. Get Cookies and Site data

chrome://settings/cookies

16. Setting up automatic downloads

Google provides multipleexceptions for different purposes.

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#multiple-automatic-downloads

17. Get complete details of Graphics

chrome://gpu/

18. Stats of Last page loaded /reloaded

chrome://histograms/

19. Allow or Deny Crash report

chrome://crashes/

20.Get the cached URL list /Content

chrome://cache/

21. To open global accessibility

chrome://accessibility/

22. To Display Flash Details

chrome://flash/

23. To access uploaded WebRTC logs

chrome://webrtc-logs/

24. Create Dumb in WebRTC internals

chrome://webrtc-internals/

25. Access details of Auto completed Action Predicator

chrome://predictors/

26. Apply for tracing

chrome://tracing/

27. To Print Document

chrome://print/

Developer / Debug Level Chrome Commands

28. Manage protocol handlers

chrome://settings/handlers

29. Define Sandboxed plug-in access

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#ppapi-broker

30. Manage media stream exceptions

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#media-stream

31. Adding Mouse lock Exception

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#mouselock

32. Add image Exceptions

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#images

33. Deny JavaScript for specific site or Hostname

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#javascript

34. Block or Allow Pop-ups

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#popups

35. Get Geolocation exceptions

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#location

36. Get Notification Exception

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#notifications

37. Get Behaviour of full screen exception

chrome://settings/contentExceptions#fullscreen

38. Get Default search engine settings

chrome://settings/searchEngines

39. To customize fonts and Encoding

chrome://settings/fonts

40. Get Apache Application Cache

chrome://appcache-internals/

41. To display experimental features

chrome://flags/

Note: Not recommend for beginners who don't know about experiments with chrome, it may bite you.

42. To display credit page

chrome://credits/

43. To get IndexedDB Information

chrome://indexeddb-internals/

44. To access Developer Tools

chrome://inspect/

45. To access omnibox input

chrome://omnibox/

46. Killing process due to out of memory problems

chrome://kill/

47. Clean GPU

chrome://gpuclean

48. To restart chrome browser

chrome://restart/

49. Short Hang

chrome://shorthang/

50. Profiler

chrome://profiler