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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."
about:everything will redirect to wikipedia, google or something like that, so really will include everything.
I don't care for the kitchen sink. Could you please include a car washer instead?
But IE has had something like that for years. Sometimes it redirects you to a nice blue screen.
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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?
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'.
Next time, please complain "Mozilla has everything but a red light district". Can't wait for the animated xml-porn
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Does it have a garbage disposal for all those pop-ups and spam?
Give this a go: about:mozilla
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Anyone know any more of these 'features'?
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.
Several releases of Emacs have also used a kitchen sink as a launcher icon.
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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!
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. ^_^
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If you're stuck on IE, here it is:
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.
bug 56061 - about:about: RFE to display a clickable list of all the supported about:*
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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.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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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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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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.
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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.
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.
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.)
Snarkiness is inversely proportional to wisdom because it emphasizes feeling right rather than being right.
... It does not respond, so I guess no more kitchensink for today! Too bad /. really floods -everything- these days ..
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hope they don't add a about:shower
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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"...
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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.
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?
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 ]
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?