Browser & App Secrets
Hidden pages, flags and easter eggs in everyday apps.
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i wanted a super simple work log without installing anything. someone told me about Notepads .LOG trick. create a new text file, type .LOG in uppercase as the very first line, save it, and close it. the next time you…
ok weird one our office internet died this morning and someone yelled "press space". On Chromes "No internet" page teh little pixel T rex starts runnnig when you press space or the up arrow. Jump over cacti, duck under pterodactyls with the down arrow, and…
youTube sohrtcuts i wish Id known earlier: 1. K or Space: play/pause. 2. J / L: back/forward 10 seocnds. 3. left/Right arrows: back/forward 5 seconds. 4. , and . (while paused): previous/next frame. 5 :/ 0 9: jump to 0% 90% of the video. 6. shift+ and…
so annoyed rn chrome Task Manager 101: 1. Press Shift+Esc, or menu More tools Task manager. 2. Sort by Memory footprint or CPU. 3. Select a tab or extension and click End process. right click the column header to add things like Network or JavaScript memory.…
ok so my coworker told me to type "do a barrel roll" into Google search. I did, and the whole results page rotated 360 degrees :D Then I tried "askew" and teh page tilted slightly to the side. my favorite, though, is searching "recursion". google shows "Did…
My dad told me Excel used to have a flight simulator hidden in it and I thought he was trolling. Nope. Excel 97 had a hidden 3D flight sim easter egg, triggered by a specific key sequence on a blank sheet. You could fly over a landscape with teh names of the…
Type about:robots into Firefoxs address bar. you get a page addressed to robots, with lines referencing classic science fiction, including a nod to teh film The Day the Earth Stood Still and the famous robot laws. theres even a button that says "Try Again"…
i was troubleshooting a site that woludnt load after a DNS change, and someone told me to visit chrome://net internals/ dns and click "Clear host cache" 😤 Worked instantly. That made me curious, so I typed chrome://chrome urls and got a list of every…
Closing my last tab kept closing the whole Firefox window, which drove me nuts. Someone said: type about:config in the address bar, accept teh "Proceed with Caution" warning, search for browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab and set it to false... now closing…
ok weird one i was watching a movie where the subtitles were a second late and almost gave up. Then I learned VLC has hotkeys for this: G and H shift subtitle timing, J and K shift audio timing. A small message shows the delay on screen. Fixed it in five…
