Weird Mozilla Firefox Page

[J-Mac]

OK, I've been using Firefox from quite early on, but this is a first for me!  This page appears to be simply a test page for standards compliance -- or at least I hope it is!

Take a look:  Type "about:Mozilla" into Firefox's address bar (Without the quotes, of course) and see what you get.

Some coders have a really strange sense of.... humor? 

Jim

[lanux128]

yes, this is an old easter egg from the Nestcape-era, i think..

[J-Mac]

Wow - that old?!

Jim

[lanux128]

afraid so.. anyway, you can read all about it here: The Book of Mozilla.

[housetier]

there are more:

about:about	doesn't seem to work right
about:blank	you know this one
about:cache	shows information about the cache
about:cache-entry	maybe ought to show information about a given cache entry?
about:config	tweak all the settings, even those you shouldn't fiddle with
about:crashes	lists the crashreports you have sent
about:credits	shows an alphabetical list of contributors. (the colors were messed up in my case: black on black)
about:plugins	shows the plugins you have installed, but not the extensions
about:mozilla	see in the previous posts
about:logo	shows the firefox logo in PNG format
about:buildconfig	shows how your binary was compiled
about:license	shows the licenses (yes plural) which apply to various parts of firefox (or mozilla)
about:licence	the same for different spelling

Those are all I found during my 2-minute research. There might be more though...

[BuBBy]

about:kitchensink

[J-Mac]

about:kitchensink

-BuBBy (March 23, 2008, 06:22 AM)

OK - you got me!  "Bad URL, cannot be loaded.   

Jim

[Josh]

Funny, kitchensink works for me

[housetier]

I have firefox 3.0 beta 4 and cannot load "about:kitchensink". Josh which browser did you use?

[J-Mac]

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.12 and I just get a small popup saying the URL is not valid.

Jim

[lanux128]

more on "about:kitchensink" here.

[J-Mac]

Aha!  I just saw something about this on LifeHacker, and I now see the problem:

You have to type in "about kitchensink" (without the quotes, of course), not "about:kitchensink".

Whomever else was having trouble with this, try it with just a space between "about" and "kitchensink". Worked for me then!

Jim

[datumon]

Yeah, just about(space)kitchensink worked for me too.
I've found another page - try about:robots and have a see what happens...

[f0dder]

Haha, didn't now about (or had forgotten all about?) "about kitchensink" - that one's cute

[Deozaan]

I've found another page - try about:robots and have a see what happens...

-datumon (February 26, 2009, 12:16 PM)

Ha!

Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten.

Nice Futurama reference.