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Amp
11-12-2003, 11:07 AM
To all the Mozilla users, type in about:mozilla in your url bar and hit enter. Up pops the follwing words on a red background:

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

Does this actually mean anything or did some Mozilla programmers, suffering from lack of sleep, decide to put in an easter egg/joke for the hell of it?
Amp
11-12-2003, 11:10 AM
That should be about:mozilla. No space.
Amp
11-12-2003, 11:13 AM
Why does the board keep putting a space?
SkipMagic
11-12-2003, 11:17 AM
I got: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)

for Mozilla 1.3a
Amp
11-12-2003, 11:18 AM
Using Mozilla 1.5 here.
gazpacho
11-12-2003, 11:37 AM
easter eggs are fun
Parallax
11-12-2003, 11:38 AM
It seems to be an easter egg - I think the recent versions are referring to the new browser they are working on which was originally called Phoenix and is now called Firebird after a naming dispute.
Futile Gesture
11-12-2003, 11:55 AM
And no prizes for guessing what 'the followers of Mammon' is referring to.




What, you want me to spell it out? Four letters, rearrange them and split them into two: SIME
SkipMagic
11-12-2003, 12:02 PM
Originally posted by Futile Gesture
And no prizes for guessing what 'the followers of Mammon' is referring to.


What, you want me to spell it out? Four letters, rearrange them and split them into two: SIME
Oh, yeah! The plural of "mouse"!

Mise. Good call! ;)
dylan_73
11-12-2003, 12:09 PM
All the prophecies with commentary are at http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#Origins_and_prophecies:_the_Mozilla_name
panamajack
11-12-2003, 02:19 PM
You have to look closely at the wikipedia article, or know something about Mozilla's development to catch it, but "fire" and "thunder" (bolded in my version) are clearly referring to the Firebird and Thunderbird applications.
panamajack
11-12-2003, 02:31 PM
Oops, I see parallax already mentioned that. 'Thunderbird' is the standalone mail/news app.
DougC
11-12-2003, 04:03 PM
- - - Hmmm:

about:mozilla

-it puts a space even in code tags...? Oh well. By the by, you get the egg-screen in Netscape 7.1 also....
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DreadCthulhu
11-12-2003, 05:40 PM
Neat trick-works in Firebird too.
Amp
11-12-2003, 06:32 PM
Do it in Explorer and all you get is a blue screen.
mnemosyne
11-12-2003, 09:49 PM
Explorer goes to a blue screen as a supposed Blue Screen of Death if you use Mozilla - I actually used to have IE crash on me more, back when I used it! Though at work, I set my homepage to about:mozilla in Explorer, and got lots of "WTF???" comments from people using my computer!
Urban Ranger
11-12-2003, 10:19 PM
Clearly, that was a record of a historical event, which is the fall of Netscape and the rise of Mozilla/Firebird
Gorsnak
11-12-2003, 10:41 PM
I dunno. New versions of Netscape also get the faux scripture passages when you go to about:mozilla
Achernar
11-12-2003, 11:10 PM
Actually, it's pretty clear that it's the fall of Mozilla (the beast) and the rise of Firebird.
Some Guy
11-12-2003, 11:21 PM
Actually, even old versions of Netscape did this. Mozilla was originally the internal Netscape codename for their browser (from Mosaic, which the Netscape code was based on, plus Godzilla). about:mozilla dates back at least to early versions of Netscape 4.x, from my own personal experience. I don't know if it's any older than that.

(FTR, you can hit 'quote' on my post to see how I got the space out. I'm rather pleased with myself for accomplishing it. ;)