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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:

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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:D

This post was edited on 07-23-2004 at 03:14 AM by kingboy.
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RE: lil firefox secret
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:
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http://www.rigaut.com/benoit/CERN/about/
http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/010797I.html
http://livinginternet.com/w/wa_browser_about.htm
....
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**As far as I know, IE has nothing like this, Just another reason to GET FIREFOX
Yes it has... try "about:blank".... :p

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 ;))

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


thats what i was gonna say :P
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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:)
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about:firefox and about:about don't work in Firefox 0.9.2 :o


thats what i was gonna say :P
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)

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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)
didn't work in 0.9.1 either, we'll see in 1.0 beta :)
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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
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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:
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<BODY bgcolor="#000080" text="#FFFFFF">
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Dodgy indeed :P
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