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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. Re:Wow, just what mozilla needs by damiam · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's kind of hypocritical to talk about sites that just don't work in Mozilla and other browsers, and that you shouldn't support companies that make sites like that but when a site like this works only in Mozilla it's just fine

    The page is valid XHTML. If IE can't render it, that's its problem. Most of the IE-only pages are not standards-compliant, and that's the problem.

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  2. Re:Wow, just what mozilla needs by .com+b4+.storm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's kind of hypocritical to talk about sites that just don't work in Mozilla and other browsers, and that you shouldn't support companies that make sites like that but when a site like this works only in Mozilla it's just fine

    Oh what a load of troll-scented crap. This isn't a "site", it is a silly easter egg built into the program. This is not a page with actual information, it's not meant for consumption by the general public (i.e. my grandfather is not going to search on Google for "kitchen sink", find this, and be disappointed that it does not work in IE). It is a "feature" specifically for Mozilla users.

    Would you complain the same way if a Mozilla skin or XUL extension didn't work with IE? Of course not. It's not meant to.

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  3. This is totally false by BZ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The patch was not checked in to the Mozilla trunk because it was vetoed by drivers@mozilla.org. It will likely never be checked in.

    How about doing some tiny little bit of fact-checking? Who needs news if it's false?

  4. geez... by Jamie+Zawinski · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What kind of a sad world has it become when easter eggs get announced before they've even made it into a beta? The whole point of these things used to be the treasure hunt. Do you read the walk-through before you even start playing a new game?

  5. Re:Old news... by Otter · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Heh, I read those instructions and was thinking how in Linux something like that would be the answer to a question like "How do I get my backspace key to work?" or 'Why can't I play CDs?"

    And followed by insisting that anyone who thinks something like that should be expected to work in the first place is a drooling half-wit...

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