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Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:55 pm Reply and quote this post
SP2 IE and about:mozilla
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So one change in IE that came with sp2, that I haven't seen anybody comment on, is that about:mozilla is gone. Before I installed sp2, i had my homepage set to about:mozilla because it gave a nice colored window as the default. But now all it does it show the word "mozilla" on a white background. If you are annoyed that your nice default html is no longer around, there is a little trick that not many people know, which is that you can put any html you want in an about url, and IE will show it. So just write a simple html page that displays any color/design you want and set that text as your homepage.


Have you tried:

It all points to res://mshtml.dll/about.moz  which in IE points to a blue screen


Oh, and it's probably worth pointing out that Firefox (0.8, I think) has this for about:mozilla:

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

...Its all about URI Schemes...
about: is used as an internal URI scheme (also known as a "URL scheme" or, erroneously, "protocol") in various web browsers to display certain built-in functions and Easter eggs. It is not an officially-registered scheme, and has no standard syntax.
More at Wikipedia ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme

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Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:43 pm Reply and quote this post
now, if nobody knows this... that is not an easter egg... that was the internal home-url of firefox
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Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:16 pm Reply and quote this post
Geeks call them eastereggs, they get all excited haha! What was it used for spaceraver?
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