Talk:About URI scheme

message: As far as I can tell, the about: addresses do not work in the Mac version of IE; they all give a blank page.  I'm not sure if this has always been the case, but on the latest version (5.2.3).  Made changes to the article to reflect this, though I didn't go so far as to say that there aren't any that work -- don't really know for sure.  If anybody has more information on this issue, it would probably be useful to include.
--Matthew0028 —Preceding undated comment added 06:54, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: IE:Mac Version

message: On a version of Internet Explorer that I've used, there's "about:tabs", which provides information on a new feature that allows viewing of multiple websites in the same window. --Gray Porpoise 22:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: IE Win

message: You just need the MR Tech about:about extension. Works just like about:about in Mozilla. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.37.81.119 (talk) 12:55, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In my install of Firefox 2.0.0.6 on WinXP about:about does neither display an error window nor does it anything to the page that is currently loaded.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.180.169.88 (talk) 16:01, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  about:about works in Firefox... 

message: In Google Chrome, I've noticed that occasionally, about:internets gives a blank page with "The Tubes are Clogged!" as the title.  I haven't noticed anything different about browsing when this happens.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.64.1.197 (talk) 20:48, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Type "About:crash" into the "about:internets" tab; it'll replace the favicon with a x_x folder, and state "The Tubes Are Clogged!" as the title. Works in XP as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.228.153.236 (talk) 06:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  about:internets does other things... 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:BookofMozilla.PNG

message: about:logo appears to do nothing in Firefox. It does not even load a blank page. It simply acts like it is loading a page, but then does nothing. Is this the case for other users? --cattrain 04:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  about:logo in Firefox 

message: About:NavigationFailure and About:NavigationCancel do not belong in the Internet Explorer about box because any About:<unknownsyntax> will yield the results. The result is not due to the code following "about:".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Worddoc (talk • contribs) 07:32, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  About:NavigationFailure and About:NavigationCancel 

message: opera:drives and opera:button do not work in my version of Opera: Opera 9.25 on Linux. Do they work in newer beta versions and/or on other operating systems or are those pages deprecated? Daniel andersson (talk) 21:41, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  opera:drives and opera:button 

message: I was wondering if it would be a nice idea to make the actual about: adresses hyperlinks. this way you could immediately test the link in your own browser.
Koesper (talk) 13:18, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wont work, because MediaWiki doesn't recognize about: as a protocol. ffm 01:18, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  We could still use plain HTML for that (<a href...)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Schuhpuppe (talk • contribs) 19:12, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  No we can't, I just tested it. --Schuhpuppe (talk) 19:23, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. If we enter an HTML anchor tag in the wiki source this is what happens: <a href="about:blank">about:blank</a> (in a regular HTML file this just works fine). If we surround the anchor with ... tags, to escape the mediawiki preprocessor, it gives the same result: <a href="about:blank">about:blank</a>. That puzzles me, I would expect it to work. See: Help:Wiki markup#Limiting formatting/escaping wiki markup. Jaho (talk) 19:59, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And the regular "square bracket notation" [about:blank about:blank], doesn't work either. Jaho (talk) 20:03, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  why not make the about: adresses clickable? 

message: More abouts:
*about:NoAdd-ons
*about:NoAdd-onsInfo
Can anyone find complete list?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.198.98.225 (talk) 22:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In Firefox, SeaMonkey and Google Chrome about:about gives a (complete?) list. Doesn't work in MSIE though. Jaho (talk) 20:13, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  IE 7 

message: Similarly, in early versions of Internet Explorer, about: followed by a string of HTML (e.g. about:hello world) would render that string as though it was the source of the page - thus providing a similar (though more limited) facility to the data: URI scheme defined by RFC 2397.
I'm using Firefox 3.5.6 and can't use such a HTML snippet neither with about: nor data:.  This would prove useful especially to have a textarea for spell checking, is there a way to have this with a recent Firefox ?  --DynV (talk) 09:16, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  generate snippet 

message: I'm using the most up to date version of Chrome 4 dev and it does not have an about:stats page. King Rhyono (talk) 07:23, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chrome about:stats 

message: * opera:cache?device=memory
* opera:cache?device=offline
Guess Opera likes Mozilla — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.32.194.196 (talk) 12:58, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two more for Opera 

message: In the minefield nightly s they have a about:home page now. It just contains a search box.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.76.45.242 (talk) 13:36, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  about:home in FF4 

message: It says on the article that about:crash displays the "Aww, snap!..." message, but in my experience what it does is it forces a crash on the tab, prompting Chrome to display the "Aww, Snap!" message. I know this because I have WinDbg installed and when I try about:crash WinDbg catches the access violation exception and no message is displayed on Chrome until I close WinDbg.--Dave.haku (talk) 00:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  about:crash on Google Chrome 

message: Just type in "about:about" on Chrome for a full list. Looks like the page was made for devs. 74.232.0.174 (talk) 21:04, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Found some about: pages for Chrome 

message: This is the default homepage of Firefox (According to me. This works in China.) What about...Adding it to the page? 114.249.30.240 (talk) 01:48, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  about:cehome (Firefox) 

message: Under the section, Standardization, there is the sentence (main paragraph), "Note that Opera ASA, the proponents, had long used and advocated alternative browser specific URIs.[4]"
Does this mean "alternative-browser specific URIs" or "alternative browser-specific URIs"? -_-
People like to think we don't need hyphens, but there are still many circumstances that I see just in my day-to-day life wherein unneeded ambiguity could go unproduced if someone had just considered using a hyphen. Good Goddesses, this is annoying... — Preceding unsigned comment added by SarahTehCat (talk • contribs) 20:29, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguity 

message: Most of the article seems like cruft and should probably be removed. Especially the browser-specific entries are either completely unsourced or only link to primary sources. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 16:10, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overly detailed