Friday, November 16, 2007

About "about:"!

VCommentAbout "about:"!
You might have noticed in most of the browsers that about:blank is the default home page. Have you ever wondered what this page is? Its a blank html page created by the browser. Read this article to know more about "about:".

"about:URI" is a protocol used by browsers to maintain its internal pages. The most common URI used is "blank". The implementation of this protocol is upto the browser. Each browser has its own set of URIs. Some URIs are helpful in knowing some info about the broswer itself.

"about:" - Displays version info in Mozilla firefox, Opera, Konqueror
"about:plugins" - Shows the filename, MIME type, description, suffix, and status of all installed plug-ins in Mozilla firefox
"about:help" - Displays help file in Opera.

For more, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme

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