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Chrome is a pretty simple browser on the outside, but there are tons of pages built in for advanced settings, tweaks, tests, and more. All of these pages are hidden behind the chrome:// prefix—here’s a look at some of the best. Before we get into that, however, it’s probably a good idea to explain how these chrome:// pages work. You enter chrome:// into the omnibox, followed by the page you want to access—think of it like a web page, but instead of http://Â being the prefix, it’s chrome://. Chrome://About: All of Chrome’s Internal Pages in One Place The most useful of all the chrome:// pages is probably chrome://about, because it shows all of Chrome’s other internal pages in an easy to parse (and click!) list. As you look through the list, you’ll find that a lot of these link to specific pieces of Chrome’s settings menu—like chrome://chrome, which takes you to Chrome’s update page. Or chrome://bookmarks, chrome://apps, and chrome://newtab, all of which open those respective pages. Chrome://Flags: Experimental Features and More This is probably the most popular of all the chrome:// pages, because it’s where Google hides experimental features—things that are in the works, but not yet ready for prime time. These let you explore beta features with a simple toggle, so if issues arise you easily can revert back to the stable setting. RELATED: How to Get Access to Experimental Features in Chrome (and on Chromebooks) There are all sorts of hidden features here, just keep in mind t...

A Crash Course in Debugging with This document is intended to help get people started debugging network errors with It would probably be useful to read What Data Net-Internals Contains The leftmost column presents a list of views. Most debugging is done with the Events view, which will be all this document covers. The top level network stack object is the URLRequestContext. The Events view has information for all Chrome URLRequestContexts that are hooked up to the single, global, NetLog object. This includes both incognito and non-incognito profiles, among other things. The Events view only shows events for the period that net-internals was open and running, and is incrementally updated as events occur. The code attempts to add a top level event for URLRequests that were active when the The other views are all snapshots of the current state of the main URLRequestContext's components, and are updated on a 5 second timer. These will show objects that were created before Events vs Sources The Events view shows events logged by the NetLog. The NetLog model is that long-lived network stack objects, called sources, emit events over their lifetime. A NetLogWithSource object contains a source ID, a NetLogSourceType, and a pointer to the NetLog the source emits events to. The Events view has a list of sources in a column adjacent to the list of views. Sources that include an event with a net_error parameter with negative value (that is, some kind of ERR_) are shown with red backgro...

This is something that we are all aware of at this point. Therefore, just enter this URL in the address bar and press the Enter key for the software to do its job. But what perhaps not everyone knows, is that at the same time the browser itself has its own internal pages . These have a similar behavior, with the difference that they are local, can not be deleted and serve us for all kinds of tasks. Therefore, to access these, just write them the same URL in the address bar to load. So, below we will show you all that you can use and so you know what they are for. Chrome internal addresses Chrome: // about It shows us a list with all the internal URLs that we are going to show you here in these same lines. Chrome: // autofill-internals It returns a list of all auto-filled records of fields that have been captured over time. Chrome: // blob-internals It makes a list with all the blob data in case they are available. Chrome: // bluetooth-internals Provides information about Bluetooth connectivity including available adapters, devices and debug logs. Chrome: // compat It teaches in a compatibility hub with the entries of the list of sites in Company Mode. Chrome: // components To see the plugins and components installed in the browser . This includes the version of Chrome: // conflicts We see a list with all the modules loaded in the browser and the rendered processes, in addition to and the registered modules. Chome: // crashes We will see a list of all recently reported erro...

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Proxy server identifiers A proxy server is an intermediary used for network requests. A proxy server can be described by its address, along with the proxy scheme that should be used to communicate with it. This can be written as a string using either the “PAC format” or the “URI format”. The PAC format is how one names a proxy server in • PROXY foo:2138 • SOCKS5 foo:1080 • DIRECT The “URI format” instead encodes the information as a URL. For example: • foo:2138 • http://foo:2138 • socks5://foo:1080 • direct:// The port number is optional in both formats. When omitted, a per-scheme default is used. See the Most UI surfaces in Chrome (including command lines and policy) expect URI formatted proxy server identifiers. However outside of Chrome, proxy servers are generally identified less precisely by just an address -- the proxy scheme is assumed based on context. In Windows' proxy settings there are host and port fields for the “HTTP”, “Secure”, “FTP”, and “SOCKS” proxy. With the exception of “SOCKS”, those are all identifiers for insecure HTTP proxy servers (proxy scheme is assumed as HTTP). Proxy resolution Proxying in Chrome is done at the URL level. When the browser is asked to fetch a URL, it needs to decide which IP endpoint to send the request to. This can be either a proxy server, or the target host. This is called proxy resolution. The input to proxy resolution is a URL, and the out...

Chrome has tons of tools, for the everyday user and for developers and sysadmins. One such tool is the little known Chrome net-internals application, which is accessible by typing chrome://net-internals into your Chrome browser. What is net-internals? Per the What network bugs can net-internals help you identify? There’s several network issues or bugs this can help you identify. Here’s a good list from the Chromium Project: • Cache hits for DNS resolves • Reads/writes from disk cache • Queueing delay to schedule DNS resolves to threads • Stalls due to chrome extensions pausing requests • Stalls due to exceeding socket pool limits • Speculative DNS resolves • Proxy resolution • Attempts to do a TCP connect to an IP address • Network change events • Proxy configuration change events • Other Errors The Chromium Project goes a bit further and states that this is not a replacement for packet captures like tcpdump but it’s actually used for “application level logic and caches” that are not known at lower layers. It can also capture bytes sent and/or received over sockets. Follow us on LinkedIn Using Net-internals to Get Network Data for Bug/Error Reports If you have an issue and need to send it to a developer to fix, here’s how you can gather the network data from net-internals: • Start a new browser window and go to chrome://net-internals • If you need byte-level data, select “Capture” from the drop down menu that’s in the top left, then check “Include the actual bytes sent/rec...

Each time you type a new web address into your browser’s address bar, your device connects to a DNS Server to translate its simple human-readable name into a machine-readable IP address, so you can connect to your web server of choice. Many modern devices and operating systems store the IP addresses of the sites you visit in a special DNS cache to help you access them faster in future. Problems occur when things start to go stale. Perhaps the website in question has updated its IP address or maybe they’ve added a new server to which you can connect even faster. This can cause web pages to load slowly, or sometimes not all. Bad actors like hackers will sometimes target your DNS cache. This is known as ‘DNS poisoning’ and is very dangerous : if, for instance, you typed in the website address of your bank, a hacker could redirect you instead to a copycat ‘ phishing’ website. DNS settings Even if you’re not worried about slow web pages or being targeted by cybercriminals, you may want to update your DNS settings. Public DNS servers such as those offered by Google and Cloudflare are often much faster than those offered by your ISP, and they can filter out harmful links. If you sign up with one of the best VPN services (and reliable free VPN providers), they will also supply their own DNS servers. This is because if you connect to a VPN but continue to use the DNS servers supplied by your ISP, anyone monitoring your connection can see which websites you’re visiting, as well as w...