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lil firefox secret by kingboy on 07-23-2004 at 02:23 AM

i dont know how many people know this..but i was playing around with firefox, and i stumbled upon these things.

Type "about:firefox" (without quotes) in address bar to get:

Lo, the bird of fire was magnificent! But a roiling storm was brewing to the south, and dark clouds loomed on the horizon. The bird knew a grim conflict was close at hand and that it could not triumph in its current form. It sat very still, contemplating the situation. Suddenly, in a flash of light and flame, the bird took the form of a great fox the likes of which had never been seen in this land. The dark clouds were scattered to the wind. And all who witnessed this spectacle were awed by its power.

from The Book of Mozilla, 8:10

Type "about:mozilla" (without quotes) in address bar to get:

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

Works with Mozilla aswell.

I have tried "about:thunderbird", got nothing (dang). If you know any more secrets or lil thingers like this, plz post them.

**As far as I know, IE has nothing like this

, Just another reason to GET FIREFOX

RE: lil firefox secret by CookieRevised on 07-23-2004 at 02:33 AM

Nice that you've found it (Y) , but this info is widely known though
Some call it "secrets" or "easter eggs", but these things are very well documented though....
http://www.mozillatips.com/modules.php?op=modload...ile=article&sid=89
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla

by the way, very usefull ones are:

"about:about" (if you see nothing, then you have a known bug in your build)
"about:config"
"about:plugins"
"about:cache"

Do a quick google search an you'll find tons of pages about it:
(small selection)
http://www.rigaut.com/benoit/CERN/about/
http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/010797I.html
http://livinginternet.com/w/wa_browser_about.htm
....
....

quote:
Originally posted by kingboy
**As far as I know, IE has nothing like this, Just another reason to GET FIREFOX

Yes it has... try "about:blank"....

Or even funnier: try "about:mozilla" in Internet Explorer:
it will give a blue screen similar in colour to the BSOD (get it? mozilla=BSOD...

). This is one of Internet Explorer's Easter eggs

you gotta love those MS guys (sometimes

)

RE: lil firefox secret by Kryptonate on 07-23-2004 at 10:37 AM

about:firefox and about:about don't work in Firefox 0.9.2

RE: lil firefox secret by bach_m on 07-23-2004 at 10:52 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Kryptonate
about:firefox and about:about don't work in Firefox 0.9.2

thats what i was gonna say

RE: lil firefox secret by KeyStorm on 07-23-2004 at 11:44 AM

about:mozilla works in MSIE :rolleyes:

Although it's a very dodgy easter egg (if you want to call it easter egg at all :dodgy: )

RE: RE: lil firefox secret by CookieRevised on 07-23-2004 at 12:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bach_m

quote:
Originally posted by Kryptonate
about:firefox and about:about don't work in Firefox 0.9.2

thats what i was gonna say

It depends on the build you've got on what you can use....
The about:about should work however, unless that bug is creeped in again that was fixed in the/a previous build.... dodgy programmers :dodgy:

(All info about this can be found on the mozilla pages and their forums)

RE: lil firefox secret by Kryptonate on 07-23-2004 at 02:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
It depends on the build you've got on what you can use....
The about:about should work however, unless that bug is creeped in again that was fixed in the/a previous build.... dodgy programmers

(All info about this can be found on the mozilla pages and their forums)

didn't work in 0.9.1 either, we'll see in 1.0 beta

RE: lil firefox secret by Wabz on 07-23-2004 at 11:01 PM

Didn't know that worked in Internet Explorer. I just downloaded Mozilla today I actually like it I think perhaps this could be a new page for me

RE: lil firefox secret by Guido on 07-24-2004 at 12:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Wabz
Didn't know that worked in Internet Explorer. I just downloaded Mozilla today I actually like it I think perhaps this could be a new page for me

In IE it just shows a blue screen:

quote:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#000080" text="#FFFFFF">
</BODY>
</HTML>

Dodgy indeed