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Mozilla Now Even Includes The Kitchen Sink
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."
There is not comparision. This not add bloat to Mozilla exactly, nor a lot of time to developers. In the Microsoft side, instead, you have easter eggs of the size of a flight simulator.
The Mozilla 1.3 branch has been closed in prep. for release. There's a mention of it on Mozillazine as well.
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The outstanding bug list has been mirrored here:
http://www.phule.net/mirrors/bugs-2003-02-22.html because it's not very nice to bugzilla.mozilla to link directly to it. At least not from
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
And a comment like that would go amiss without a link to the ASCII pr0n archive - and for the people still reading this interested in Star Trek ASCII art - try here.
Video Game cheats, hints a
about:config will show all of your current preferences and (in recent builds) allow you to edit them. Other than that and about:plugins, I don't think there are any more interesting about: eggs.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
There used to be more of these about: pages in the old netscape (4.x and lower). Most of them went to the home pages of various developers on the netscape project. The about:netscape page used to display a different quote from the Book of Mozilla. If you put something in that the browser didn't understand, such as 'about:whatever', the resulting page would read "Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Have a look here, they list most of the about: URIs, as well as some other forgotten easter eggs.
(Score: -1, Stupid)
IE has trouble with XHTML. They spend so much time making sure people don't use standards...
Have a google search with:
site:w3.org xhtml "cannot be displayed"
This is an old bug, Microsoft seems to be too absorbed with DRM to care about it.
No, it doesn't. If you read the later comments in the bug, you'll see that drivers@mozilla.org (the project managers) have vetoed about:kitchensink. It's not likely to get into Mozilla unless the patch can be modified so it only affects Mozilla (right now it affects most Mozilla-based browsers, including Phoenix, Galeon and K-Meleon). Even then, I still have doubts that it will get in.
The thing is, EVERY other string produces a white screen with text on it. about:microsoft gives you a white screen and the word microsoft. about:foobar gives you a white screen and the word foobar. about:mozilla gives you a blank blue screen. changing any one letter of mozilla results in the white screen with the word on it.
My server
about:cache
Number of tabs seems to be dependent on your available free graphics memory. Most of my machines have 64MB cards in them, but one only has an 8MB card.
Since it's my habit to visit voyeurweb.com and download everything I can find in a new tab (which usually loads about 10 60k images per page), I've discovered that I can usually open about 70 tabs before things go wonky.
I close a few tabs, and things go back to normal.
When I try the same thing with IE (LOTS of open windows since IE is teh l4m3 and doesn't do tabs), I usually get a crash or lockup at around 40 open windows.
Anyway, on the box I have that only have 8MB card in it, the number of tabs full of pictures I can open is much, much lower. Maybe 10 or 12, before wonkiness sets in.
The 8MB graphics-card machine is a Linux box with a Matrox G100. The rest of my PCs are running W2k or Linux with some higher form of ATI card.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
I *definately* recommend you get linky. I actually don't browse porn as much as graffiti, but the 'open all image links in one new tab' feature is a KILLER, and it'll probably be even more so for you.
As for IE sucking a log on this, well, it's 100% valid XHTML and CSS with decent DOM use, so I'm not surprised IE won't view it.
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]