Comments on: Firefox 3 Easter Egg Explained

By: water damage chicago

water damage chicago — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:52:13 +0000

Lol, very funny stuff! I would never think to type “about:robots” into my FF browser, and I doubt anyone of my fellow FF user friends do as well. I’ll forward the interesting find to them. Thanks!

By: DeepThought

DeepThought — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:57:21 +0000

Very good findings! but there’s another Douglas Adam’s/Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s mention in this and is the Try Again Button:
Just as you mention when you click it again it says “Please do not press this button again”; the exact same thing happens in the book! When Arthur Dent is with Ford Prefect in the Heart of Gold, Arthur sees a big red button and presses it just to see that the text “Please do not press this button again” appear on the button. In the book of course he obeys the warning and doesn’t press it.
And that’s it, the book never explains what the button is for or what is it doing there.
Keep up the good job!

By: outdoor antenna

outdoor antenna — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:22:37 +0000

I’ve been using IE for years and just switched over to Firefox and love it. Learning more about its system everyday and now coming along info like this you have here is really cool. Thanks for the neat info here.

By: water damage denver

water damage denver — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:06:01 +0000

So I wonder how people found something like this. Did they just decide to type “robots” at the end of “about:” instead of “config”? I just saw the ‘51 version of “The Day… Stood Still” so I recognized the references right away.

Very amusing nonetheless

By: Pyran

Pyran — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:09:53 +0000

Also, just for the record:

There is No Data
There is Only XUL

is a ghostbuster’s reference.

http://ghostbusters.group.stumbleupon.com/forum/87138/

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:43:18 +0000

Wow this Easter egg is so cool haha i never knew about it. I love how companies put easter eggs into their products, although I want to know how people find these things out..

By: Armen Shirvanian

Armen Shirvanian — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:00:01 +0000

The idea that companies like Firefox produce hidden tidbits of enjoyable material like this is quite appealing to the end-user, and only adds to the acceptance of a product.

By: quotes

quotes — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:45:26 +0000

Thanks for such a detailed and comprehensive explanation

By: Saratoga Picks

Saratoga Picks — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:02:58 +0000

This is great, but I don’t know have people have so much free time to find these things. Thanks for the explanation of the quotes, some of them I knew but some were over my head.

By: flowers

flowers — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:39:23 +0000

The explanation is quite good