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Friday, July 29, 2011

Firefox's about: commands (and easter eggs!)

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:
  • 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.
    Advanced Information Pages:
    • 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.
    Other Pages:
    • 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 :

      2 comments:

      1. Complete List of Firefox Chrome:// Commands:

        chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul
        Shows the Firefox "about" Page

        chrome://browser/content/openLocation.xul
        Shows the "open" page

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul
        Opens the "Options" page

        chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul
        Shows the "Bookmark" page

        chrome://browser/content/history/history-panel.xul
        Shows the "History" page

        chrome://global/content/console.xul
        Opens the Javascript console

        chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul?type=extensions
        Opens the "Add-ons" page

        chrome://mozapps/content/profile/profileSelection.xul
        Closes the current tab in or the Firefox window if there is only one tab open

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/sanitize.xul
        Opens the "Clear History" page

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul
        Shows the "Options" page

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/permissions.xul
        Opens the "Permissions" window

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/languages.xul
        Shows the "Language selection" page

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/fonts.xul
        Shows the "Font Selection" page

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/cookies.xul
        Shows all the "cookies"

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/connection.xul
        opens the "Connection Settings" page

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/colors.xul
        Shows the "Color Selection" page

        chrome://browser/content/preferences/advanced-scripts.xul
        Shows "Advanced Script Settings" page

        chrome://browser/content/migration/migration.xul
        Shows the "Import Wizard"

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