Monday, January 25, 2010

Browser info

Here are a couple of tips you may find handy:

In Firefox you type "about:cache" in the address bar and you get info on cache usage displayed in the browser window. this also works on Google Chrome, however on chrome the files are in one long list.



using about: in the address bar has a few different functions, there is also "about:config", which has a long list of advanced options for configuring firefox--I wont go into them here. this feature is not in Chrome.

one that works in Chrome but not in Firefox is "about:memory" that givs statistics on browser memory usage:



you can also use the address bar to email a page to someone, just type this in front of the URL of the page you want to send: "mailto:name@domain.com?body=".

you can also whois from the address bar as well as a many other commands-too many to go into all here.

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