Archive for September 20, 2008

For those of you who have used Google’s (relatively) new browser, you may have experienced (what I’m calling) the “invisible tab”.  It looks like this, and will move around like it was really a tab:

Well if you use the Task Mananger (, seen above) to manage your Google Chrome tabs (and processies) you can click the “stats for nerds” and it will take you to about:memory (which is seen below) , a page similar to about:config in Firefox or about:tabs in IE 7, and about:blank in most all modern browsers.  These are pages made local on the system to display relavent information, or in some cases to provide a local cached page which will load quicker than any page available.  Anyway, the about:memory page allows you to see the stats for memory usage for what components of Chrome.  I noticed that there’s another tab, one which I don’t have open called “Tab 99 (Diagnostics)”  This discovery has prompted me to share a possibly great discovery into the inners of Chrome (and this annoying glitch which can only be solved by restarting the browser).