Firefox Easter Eggs

Posted Aug 11, 2008 | by Rich Menga  

imageIf you happen to use the Mozilla Firefox web browser, here are a few little hidden things about it you may not have heard about.

The Book of Mozilla

This has been in every Netscape browser and in every Firefox browser. In the address bar, type about:mozilla and you will read a strange passage from the "book" of Mozilla. No such book exists obviously but they call it as such. You can read up on what these mysterious words mean here.

Running Firefox inside Firefox

Type chrome://browser/content/browser.xul inside the address bar and it will launch another instance of Firefox inside Firefox.

Robots welcome you

Tying about:robots in the address bar makes this show up:

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View the credits

Typing about:credits will give you a list of everyone involved in the development of the browser in one way or another. The list is long.

Which Of These Traits Applies To YOUR Computing Life?...

3 Responses to “Firefox Easter Eggs”

  1. Vertimyst says:

    Nice, loved the robots bit. :P

    The Book of Mozilla is cool too. Gotta love opensource programmers. I once found a reference to Spiderman in one program’s code.

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