Those listed below as "clickable" means that the URLs can be placed in an HTML <A HREF="about:..."> statement in a webpage document. Those which are not, must be entered by hand into the Open URL dialog box. Also those which are "clickable" can be added as bookmarks, the other ones can not.
clickable | Special URL | Description |
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about: | Same as Help -> About | |
about:about | list all these about: URLs (Mozilla Suite only). | |
about:plugins | lists what plug-ins have been loaded. (No longer clickable in later versions.) | |
* | about:blank | displays a "blank" document. Good for WYSIWYG web page creation, I presume. |
about: | shows the start-up page that is shown before the home page. This page gives the version and copyright notices. | |
about:cache | Show statistics regarding the disk cache and what files/pages are cached locally. Could access the memory and disk cache entries from here. | |
* | about:credits | A sizeable list of contributors to the browser project. |
about:config | A sizeable list of configuration options for the browser. | |
* | about:buildconfig | Shows the configure options used to create the binary. |
* | about:license | Shows the Mozilla Public License. |
* | about:logo | Show the Mozilla logo. |
* | about:mozilla | Shows a "quote" from the Book of Mozilla. Afterwards the Netscape logo will show a green monster bobbing up & down while downloading long documents, instead of the Netscape meteor shower. (Only in the 4.x line) |
* | about:neterror | Shows the "OOPS!" page, and to click to try again. Mostly useless though. |
* | about:robots | Just info about robots - a firefox3 Easter egg. |
NO LONGER VALID | ||
about:global | Used to give global history information as to what URLs have been visited and when. Later versions do nothing. | |
about:image-cache | Used to show statistics regarding the image disk cache and what images are cached locally. Later versions do nothing. | |
about:document | It was clickable and used to pop up another window with content URLs and file information of the current page. Later versions do nothing. | |
about:memory-cache | Used to show statistics regarding the memory cache and what pages are cached locally. Later versions do nothing. |