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."

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In IE6

[zzxc]

Trying this in internet explorer 6, you get:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

The system cannot locate the resource specified. Error processing resource 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd'.

Re:In IE6

[Anonymous Coward]

And Safari is fully standards compliant right?

Come on now. If it didn't work and gave an error then some would justly say that there is an irony when a browser that has as one of its chief goals standards compliance includes a component that points to something not written to standards. This is even more ironic if you remeber the troubles and positions people were put through for sticking to standards and not accepting grandfathered hacks for old browser compliance. But since it doesn't work in Internet Explorer 6.x and gives an error that points to W3C guidlines none are going after IE6x compliance except in round about ways.

pingmeep

Re:In IE6

[Anonymous Coward]

It doesn't appear to be an IE parsing error, it looks like it was blocked from IE at mozilla.org. As in if I use proxomitron to fake my user-agent it displays.

Easter Eggs

[FrostedWheat]

Give this a go: about:mozilla

Anyone know any more of these 'features'? :)

Re:Easter Eggs

[stevey]

Wow - Ctrl+Alt+F still takes you to the FishCam!

I remember the first time I discovered this by accident!

Re:Easter Eggs

[Anonymous Coward]

about:
about:mozilla
about:config
about:plugins
about:kitchensink
about:cache
about:credits

I think that's it. I may be forgetting one though.

Ascii art

[gmuslera]

is more than this... the kitchen sink can even be controlled by mouse turning it on and off.

And that is ascii art is particulary appropiated, all those letters seems to be flooding mozilla zine and slashdot discussion forums.

Playing "catch up" to EMACS

[Speare]

Several releases of Emacs have also used a kitchen sink as a launcher icon.

Wow, just what mozilla needs

[Zakabog]

I just loaded the xml page in mozilla, isn't it great, mozilla sucks up 17% of my linux PC's ram (Redhat 8.0, 380 something megs of ram, PIII 600) and 40% of my windows PC (Windows XP, 256MB, Athlon XP 1800+) so naturally to make it a more efficient web browser it needed an animation of a kitchen sink, which uses up 60% of my CPU in linux (just loaded the site in mozilla and checked top) and 50% of my CPU in windows (loaded the site in mozilla again and checked the task manager.) Anyone else think that they should add this stuff AFTER they make the browser suck up less memory and CPU. At idle mozilla uses hardly any CPU (but sucks up tons of ram), but I think it's kind of weird that it requires 50% of a 1.5 ghz computer just to show an animation of a kitchen sink that is all text.

Oh, those memory stats are mozilla with about 13 tabs open, if I have 20 copies of IE open and minimize all but one it uses around 12 megs of ram (although I never use IE and the bloatedness of mozilla doesn't bother me, it still seems like an issue that needs to be worked out.) Also, the xml page doesn't seem to work in IE, is it specific for mozilla? 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 (although it's only an animation of a sink so who cares if it doesn't load in IE, it's just the fact that it will not work that matters.)

Wow

[Apreche]

I figured the first post would say

"if you don't like the bloat, use phoenix!"

But it didn't. Instead someone pointed out about:mozilla which has been in there since like Netscape 2 I believe, maybe even before. I can't believe it got modded up and people didn't know about it. Anyway, if you want the kitchen sink and only the kitchen sink, use phoenix. ^_^

another easter egg

[harks]

in Internet Explorer, try going to about:mozilla its supposed to imply that mozilla causes BSODs. haha.

Re:another easter egg

[Anonymous Coward]

I just tried that. (IE 5.0)

Going to about:mozilla pulls up a screen of dark blue. No text, tho. I suppose that might be implying that Mozilla causes BSODs. On the other hand, maybe the IE programmers were feeling blue when the compared themselves to the competition.

On a whim, I tried some other about: URLs. I found that Mozilla just ignores anything that it doesn't recognize. IE, on the other hand, generates an HTML document from whatever text is given in the URL. It's not standards compliant. The generated file is just the string -- no body tag or anything. Oh well.

Re:Old news...

[lithis]

actually, it does. try about:mozilla in ie.

about:mozilla

[arvindn]

In case you haven't done it yet, see "about:mozilla".

If you're stuck on IE, here it is:

And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.

from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31

(Red Letter Edition)

Also see The mozilla museum and The hidden features of mozilla. Its about the old netscape, but still very enjoyable and sometimes hilarious.

Going META

[hysterion]

Anyone know any more of these 'features'? :)

This would be cool:

bug 56061 - about:about: RFE to display a clickable list of all the supported about:*

Re:in related and more serious news :)

[TheRaven64]

How about my all time favourite mozilla bug? The 'I know counters have been part of the CSS spec for over 4 years, but we're still not going to support them' (bug 3247). To be fair, IE's support is even worse. Take a look at this page. It all validates, but the only browser to render it correctly is Opera 7. (6 renders everything except the javascript.) IE and Moz both give up on the heading numbering, although they all seem to support the pagination (look at a print preview), which is nice.

Re:Linux?

[krray]

I have to agree 100%. All too often people that have pretty much only used Windows spout off like this. They think they know it all because they _did_ visit the Apple store and in their un-biased/un-buying mood thought it *was* slow.

I sit on the side of seeing the EXACT same hardware running Windows, Linux (Netware, BSD, OS/2, and BeOS for that matter) all side by side.

I've seen IE on Windows and IE on the Mac. Compare Mozilla on Windows then to the Mac. Now take a look at Linux. How about Safari. Wow.

Now -- go to your Windows box. Transfer 8G out while getting 9G dumped to you while encoding a video stream while ripping a CD with the music playing and even have another operating system running to see IE6 about: mozilla
all while posting to /.

Go ahead try it... If a Windows user were to sit down and _learn_ to use Linux or a Mac as they did, at one point, _learn_ to use Windows then, and only then, do I think people will begin to understand. I show them daily... :)

Yeah, yeah yeah -- in Russia this may be off topic.

Netrek Had This

[fuzzybunny]

The Paradise game client already had a kitchen sink (version 2.2p8).

This variant of the game Netrek, which completely revamped the gameplay of the original and added a ton of 'features', many of which tended to irritate purists of the game. The client developers added a little outline kitchen sink which would pop up on the screen when a given button was pushed, along with the phrase 'Kitchen sink activated! Bad guys beware!'

Just a piece of trivia for you, and a great game at that.

Re:Old news...

[schmink182]

Does Mozilla take you to a nice pleasant red screen then perhaps?

Actually, it does:

And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.

from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31 (Red Letter Edition)

My favorite over-featured software in-joke

[daemonc]

I remember, back when I was playing Diablo 2, there was this undead mummy that would randomly pop up with different names. One time it was named "The Creeping Feature" and another time "The Feeping Creature"...

Re:Old news...

[Jugalator]

Yes, that's because it calls an exported function in mshtml.dll when you type about:mozilla. It produces this code:

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

Would be interesting to know the story behind this...

features, functionality and bloat

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't mind a system that is modular (no really, I mean modular in the real sense) so that I can easily switch in and out the functionality I need. Good modular design dictates that I do not get overburdened by logistical infrastructure and dependencies so that I end up pulling a Microsoft (i.e. Yes you surely CAN add this feature that is used < 1% of the time and deals with 1k files, 2 k memory max, etc... but you need to add this 2 meg module that loads 5k into memory, this pair of modules that together run a 10 Meg service, and an assortment of blisteringly annoying parts that will take up a total of about 90 Megs of your precious memory.)

I enjoy having applications and programs talk to each other... in fact I insist on it usually. So, I really don't mind Mozilla's additional (and optional) packages like the Chatzilla (of which I don't use) and the mail/News, Address Book and composer. However, why can I only use one profile at a time? Hmmm, that is troublesome at best. Why should I have to shut down my email to fire up my wife's browser for her?

For those who didn't notice

[Compact Dick]

all those letters go poop, PooP, and so on. So your second comment is spot-on, especially the latter part ;-)