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'.

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!

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

[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. ^_^

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.

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...