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Mozilla Now Even Includes The Kitchen Sink

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the funny-feature-creep dept.

zzxc writes "Mozillazine reports that a 'kitchen sink' easter egg has been added into Mozilla by a patch to bug 122411. It shows an ASCII art animated kitchen sink. This was prompted by people complaining about Mozilla's bloat - that 'it includes everything but the kitchen sink.' You can see this xhtml demo by going to about:kitchensink in a recent Mozilla nightly, or at mozilla.org with an older mozilla build. Please note that this is not actually included in the browser package, so it doesn't add to mozilla's bloat. Instead, about:kitchensink directs the user to the xml document on mozilla's website."

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  1. Next addition... by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Funny

    about:everything will redirect to wikipedia, google or something like that, so really will include everything.

    1. Re:Next addition... by erpbridge · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, it will redirect to www.everything2.com/. After all, that site truly does have everything (and if you find something that's missing from Everything, you make that thing and Everything is that much closer to being everything.

      (did I say that right?)

    2. Re:Next addition... by quantaman · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually it will redirect to slashdot and have everything twice!

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  2. Who needs a kitchen sink? by Lobsang · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't care for the kitchen sink. Could you please include a car washer instead?

  3. Old news... by mrselfdestrukt · · Score: 5, Funny

    But IE has had something like that for years. Sometimes it redirects you to a nice blue screen.

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    1. Re:Old news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      You can change this behavior if you find it offensive. Just change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs from res://mshtml.dll/about.moz to http://mozilla.org .


      Yet another example of the ease and simplicity of MS Windows! How could anyone use arcane and complicated systems like Linux/UNIX when Windows provides all the functionality you need with simple easy-to-remember commands?
      P

  4. everything but the.. by seelevarcuzzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    if we can blame mozillas bloat on everything *including* the kitchen sink, what can we blame windows bloat on? does microsoft have an easter egg including the appliance section in best buy somewhere?

  5. kitchen sink? by matt4077 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next time, please complain "Mozilla has everything but a red light district". Can't wait for the animated xml-porn

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    1. Re:kitchen sink? by bicho · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nice. Now you have slashdotted their site, and it wasnt even the focus of the news.

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  6. Nice but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it have a garbage disposal for all those pop-ups and spam?

  7. Re:Easter Eggs by bheerssen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey man, you're going to slashdot my site!

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  8. It was going to be a sink *and* a urinal by kfg · · Score: 1, Funny

    But none of the developers could figure out why you'd need both.

    KFG

    1. Re:It was going to be a sink *and* a urinal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. This reminds me of that one episode of MSNBC Investigates. They were using hidden cameras, and found one repair man who was urinating in some woman's kitchen sink.

  9. Well, you know what they say by back@slash · · Score: 5, Funny

    A million ASCII kitchen sinks flowing for a million years will produce the greatest works of literature known to man.

    "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!!?? You stupid kitchen sink!"

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  10. Re:IE includes the kitchen by calethix · · Score: 2, Funny

    IE6 IS the kitchen.. and Windows is the house. Or maybe a better analogy would be that IE6 is the toilet of the Windows bathroom. :)

  11. Even simpler by da+cog · · Score: 5, Funny

    would be if the user typed in "about:everything", and the computer replied, "42". (Optional alternative behavior is for mozilla to wait several million years before returning this answer.)

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    1. Re:Even simpler by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 2, Funny
      Actually, the last time I fed Mozilla a large XML document, this might be what it was trying to do. I gave up after 20 minutes.

      In spite of this, I like Mozilla.

  12. Re:In IE6 by da+cog · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, like, from now on if someone asks us what mozilla can do that IE can't, instead of shouting, "TABS TABS TABS!!!!", we can say, "THE KITCHEN SINK!!!"

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  13. I think we flooded it ... by freaker_TuC · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... It does not respond, so I guess no more kitchensink for today! Too bad /. really floods -everything- these days ..

    hope they don't add a about:shower ...

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  14. Disappointed by IXI · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reading the headline I thought they had integrated emacs into Mozilla but they just stole the icon :(

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  15. You just made a friend by slaker · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are tears in my eyes here, man. Thanks!

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  16. Re: (turn off water ;-)) by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 2, Funny
    You can turn off this kitchen sink by just clicking on the handle.

    --sex

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