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Google Chrome Easter Egg, Make it Crash For Fun

by | Thursday, 04th Sep 2008 | 13 Comments | Share

Chrome overload already? Sorry for that, but we could not resist from posting this, Google Chrome has a hidden Easter egg which will automatically make the browser crash.

To crash Google Chrome on purpose, simply paste about:% into the address bar. Once you do that Google Chrome will automatically crash and show you a option to restart.

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Thanks for the tip hostintruder.

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  1. Scottie on September 4th, 2008 at 5:12 pm #

    How do you know that’s an easter egg? Couldn’t that just be a bug? Hmm. I don’t see the amusement in it.

  2. Rajesh on September 4th, 2008 at 9:55 pm #

    yes keith, i don’t think it is an easter egg…infact google chrome crashes easily due to many reasons…i have found atleast five different ways to crash it :)

  3. Keith Dsouza on September 5th, 2008 at 10:48 am #

    @Scottie @Rajesh Yes it could be a bug too, we cannot be entirely sure till Google raises it as a bug

  4. lazyandroid on September 6th, 2008 at 3:49 pm #

    I don’t see how this could be an easteregg, they are supposed to be meaningless but funny. This is just meaningless.

    The strange thing tough is that it crashed as soon as you type/copypaste it. You don’t even get to press enter.

  5. matt on January 12th, 2009 at 8:41 pm #

    it didnt crash when I did it. you fail

  6. Lucifer on February 17th, 2009 at 6:04 pm #

    dznt crash dear… :P

  7. Tam on April 12th, 2009 at 11:59 pm #

    Google Chrome does have an easter egg that I know about.

    Type “about:internets” into the address bar.

  8. jose.rob.jr on October 24th, 2009 at 11:25 am #

    It was a bug. They fixed

  9. google ions on December 30th, 2009 at 8:05 am #

    http://www.eastereggshunt.com/ funny easter eggs hidden

  10. Galileo on December 30th, 2009 at 10:55 am #

    I doesn't work anymore…

  11. Chris on March 22nd, 2010 at 7:36 pm #

    I don't think it works anymore.

  12. S.C. on May 12th, 2010 at 3:58 pm #

    It wasn't a bug, they used it to test if the crash sequence was working. They moved it, though, to another about: thing that I forgot.