List of Chrome URLs and their purpose

List of Chrome URLs and their purpose:
Just like Mozilla Firefox or Opera, Google Chrome ships with a set of internal URLs that you can access for various purposes. From displaying internal information to downloads, looking up crashes or the browser’s experimental features that you can enable to test them out, there is something available for anyone here.
But which pages are available, and what purpose do they serve? The first thing that you need to know is that all Chrome URLs begin with chrome:// followed by one or multiple words afterwards. Multiple words are always hyphenated and URLs never include spaces or special chars in them.
You can display the list of Chrome URLs by loading chrome://chrome-urls/ in the browser. While that gives you a list of available pages, it won’t provide you with information on what purpose they serve, and not all pages that are available actually. You can obviously load them one by one to find out, or look at the list below for faster results.

List of Chrome URLs

• chrome://appcache-internals – Information about appcached sites, including how much space they use.


• chrome://blob-internals – Displays analytics about blobs (Binary large objects)


• chrome://bookmarks – Opens the browser’s bookmarks manager


• chrome://cache – Displays all cached items, websites, images and scripts


• chrome://chrome-urls – Displays this list. Can also be loaded with Chrome://About


• chrome://crashes – A list of all recent crashes. Only available if you enable crash reporting first


• chrome://credits – Technologies that are included in the browser, their licenses, and who has created them


• chrome://dns – If prefetching is enabled, then information about the prefetching is displayed here


• chrome://downloads – The browser’s download manager listing all past downloads


• chrome://extensions – Displays the installed extensions


• chrome://flags – Displays experimental features that may or may not be integrated into the browser at one time or the other


• chrome://flash – Detailed information about Chrome’s Flash integration


• chrome://gpu-internals – Information about the video card and supported features, e.g. hardware acceleration


• chrome://history – Opens the browsing history page with options to clear the browsing history or look through it to find a page that you have opened in the past.


• chrome://ipc – Information about Chrome’s inter process communication


• chrome://inspect – Option to inspect elements, such as pages or extensions in Chrome


• chrome://media-internals – Displays media information when you play media


• chrome://memory – Displays the browsers processes, and the memory usage of all web browsers opened on the computer

• chrome://nacl – Information about Chrome’s NaCl plugin (Native Client)


• chrome://net-internals – Displays detailed network and connection related information, including SPDY connections, sockets or dns lookups


• chrome://view-http-cache – Displays web pages that you have accessed, or were accessed while you were browsing on the Internet.


• chrome://newtab – Displays the new tab page


• chrome://omnibox – Display address bar input results on this page, includes search, shortcuts and history information in the results


• chrome://plugins – Lists all plug-ins and their status


• chrome://policy – All policies that are currently active in the browser


• chrome://predictors – A list of auto complete and resource prefetch predictors based on past activities


• chrome://profiler


• chrome://quota-internals – Information about free disk space available for the Chrome profile directory, and usage and quota details


• chrome://settings – Opens the main Chrome Settings’ page.


• chrome://stats – You need to run Chrome with --enable-stats-table for statistics to show up on this page. If you do not, the page is empty


• chrome://sync-internals – Detailed information about the browser’s synchronization feature if enabled.


• chrome://terms – Google Chrome’s Terms of Service


• chrome://tracing – Recording needs to be activated before the page gets filled with information. Once you do, the browser will start to record your browsing activity


• chrome://version – Displays the browsers version and various related information, including command line switches, user agent, JavaScript, Flash and WebKit versions, as well as path variables


• chrome://conflicts – A list of all modules loaded into the main process and modules registered to load at a later point


• chrome://print – The print preview page

And then we have the following pages listed for debug purposes only.

• chrome://crash – Simulates a crash caused by the current tab


• chrome://kill – Kills the current tab in the browser and displays a “killed” page instead


• chrome://hang – Simulates a frozen browser


• chrome://shorthang – Simulates a browser that hangs for a moment


• chrome://gpuclean


• chrome://gpucrash – Simulates a crash of the gpu


• chrome://gpuhang – Simulates a frozen gpu

The following page is not listed on the chrome://chrome-urls page:

• chrome://histograms - Histogram related information

Not all pages are useful to non-developers, but some let you access features that you would not be able to access otherwise. If you access an internal page regularly, you may want to bookmark it in the browser to speed that process up. Please note that pages come and go, and that some of the pages may be removed or altered in upcoming versions of the browser.
If you spot any issues, know of pages that are not on the list, or errors in descriptions, feel free to leave a comment below so that I can correct the list for everyone’s benefit.

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