Question for Mozilla Users - about:mozilla

Factual Questions
1

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:

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?

2

That should be about:mozilla. No space.

3

Why does the board keep putting a space?

4

I got:

for Mozilla 1.3a

5

Using Mozilla 1.5 here.

6

easter eggs are fun

7

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.

8

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

9

Oh, yeah! The plural of “mouse”!

Mise. Good call! :wink:

10

All the prophecies with commentary are at http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#Origins_and_prophecies:_the_Mozilla_name

11

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.

12

Oops, I see parallax already mentioned that. ‘Thunderbird’ is the standalone mail/news app.

13
      • 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…
~

14

Neat trick-works in Firebird too.

15

Do it in Explorer and all you get is a blue screen.

16

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!

17

Clearly, that was a record of a historical event, which is the fall of Netscape and the rise of Mozilla/Firebird

18

I dunno. New versions of Netscape also get the faux scripture passages when you go to about:mozilla

19

Actually, it’s pretty clear that it’s the fall of Mozilla (the beast) and the rise of Firebird.

20

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. :wink: