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Old 20-06-2008, 07:28 AM
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FireFox 3 Easter Egg

hi all

is anyone aware of the easter egg in firefox 3?

no ?

just open a new window and type in "about:robots" (without the quotes) in

the address bar and press enter


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Old 20-06-2008, 08:58 AM
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Must try that when I get home. Thanks for the heads up.
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Old 20-06-2008, 09:04 AM
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It works, pretty funny.

Apparently there's a lot more in FF3.
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Old 20-06-2008, 09:40 AM
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Thanks John, I'll have to try it.

Love easter eggs!

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Old 20-06-2008, 09:58 AM
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also, about:mozilla
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Old 20-06-2008, 10:08 AM
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Heh.. I havent seen easter eggs since I think it was Unreal Tournament... Good to see programmers are still having fun.
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Cute.
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Old 20-06-2008, 08:33 PM
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Easter eggs are great, even some HP and Tektronix electronic test gear(like oscilloscopes) have them, from memory, one Tek 'scope had naughts and crosses game!
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Old 20-06-2008, 09:24 PM
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That's hilarious... especially the "...and they have a plan." (from a raving BSG fan)

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Old 20-06-2008, 09:26 PM
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... and check the title on the tab :-)
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Old 20-06-2008, 09:43 PM
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I love Firefox. 8 million downloads of Firefox 3 in 24 hours. That's quite... popular?

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... and check the title on the tab :-)
heh. One of my favourite movies
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Old 20-06-2008, 09:46 PM
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if you like a bit of a tweak try about:config too
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Old 21-06-2008, 03:15 AM
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Haven't upgraded yet, but about:mozilla and config work with v2.x too.
Apparently theres about:kitchensink too, an ASCII animation, can anyone confirm? (doesn't show in 2.x)

Some other "abouts:" that aren't really eastereggs
credits
buildconfig
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Old 21-06-2008, 07:11 AM
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Haven't upgraded yet, but about:mozilla and config work with v2.x too.
Apparently theres about:kitchensink too, an ASCII animation, can anyone confirm? (doesn't show in 2.x)

Some other "abouts:" that aren't really eastereggs
credits
buildconfig
cache
plugins

about:kitchensink nope invalid url
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Old 21-06-2008, 08:44 PM
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Ok, apparently you need to have some plugin or something... blah blah blah
I found a direct link though... enjoy

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-deve...itchensink.xml

EDIT: Oh yeah, and try clicking the tap handle, hehe
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Old 21-06-2008, 09:41 PM
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not bad.. not bad at all
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