Hidden pages in Mozilla Firefox

How many of us knows that Mozilla Firefox have numerous hidden pages inbuilt?Maybe the most famous page among this group is "about:blank" page.It simply shows a blank page.There are numerous other "about:" pages which are interesting and useful inbuilt tools.Technically these are internal URI handlers.

To try the below, just enter address and hit enter.
Note: Some may not work in older versions.

Address Output
about: Shows version information and copyright information.
about:blank Shows a blank HTML page.
about:plugins Shows the filename,MIME type, description, suffix, and status of all installed plug-ins
about:cache Shows information about the Cache Service.Number of entries, location of cache, size of cache, etc. for both memory and disk cache.
about:mozilla Shows a page from the fictional
Book of Mozilla.It is really interesting!It is an Easter Egg (intentional hidden message).
about:bloat Displays BloatView output (disabled in release builds).
about:blocked  Shows the malware protection page used when the browser identifies a page as not safe for viewing. (Firefox 3-specific).
about:buildconfig   Shows the arguments and options used to compile the build in use.
about:cache?device=memory Shows individual entries in memory
about:cache?device=disk Shows individual entries on disk
about:cache?device=offline    Shows individual entries for offline viewing.
about:cache-entry Shows information about a cache entry. Used in about:cache links. Requires parameters.
about:config    Shows an interface for viewing and setting a wide variety of configuration variables.Power users can tweak Firefox
here.But be careful!
about:crashes Shows details of crashes submitted by Mozilla's crash reporter (since Firefox 3).
about:credits Shows a list of all those who contributed to Mozilla
about:licence In the British English localized version, shows the content of about:license but with all occurrences of license used as a
noun replaced with licence.
about:license    Shows the license(s) of Mozilla Firefox.
about:logo    Shows the logo used on the about: screen
about:neterror Shows the error page used when the browser could not access the requested path.
about:robots   Again an  Easter egg, beginning with
March 8th, 2008 trunk builds.
about:rights Shows licensing information.

All browsers have their own about: schemes.Checkout this Wikipedia article for a complete comparison of all browsers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme


Some screenshots:

about:mozilla
about:robots
about:
about:config

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