Firefox 3 Robot Themed Easter Egg

by Scott Beale on June 19, 2008 · 22 comments

Firefox 3 Robot Themed Easter Egg

Firefox 3, which was released on Tuesday, has a really cool Easter Egg. Just type “about:robots” in the address bar (aka the “awesome bar”) and nice tribute to the Firefox 3 robot mascot appears.

UPDATE 1: Another Easter Egg, “The Book of Mozilla”, can be found by typing “about:mozilla”.

UPDATE 2: George Kelly make a great sound about “about:robots”.

via Lifehacker

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1 Idaho June 19, 2008 at 2:41 pm

“And They have a plan”

That last line totally got me :)

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2 Greg June 19, 2008 at 6:45 pm

If you type in about:mozilla you get another fun little thing.

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3 Doctor Popular June 19, 2008 at 7:32 pm

AllAboutGeorge also has an awesome song about this called “About:Robots”.

It’s been stuck in my head all day.

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4 asurroca June 19, 2008 at 8:54 pm

Yeah, that last bit definitely made it kick ass, but I love all the references. I’d say it gives the user a pretty well-rounded idea of what robots are, what they can and cannot do, what they’ve seen, what you should not do to them, etc.

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5 george June 19, 2008 at 10:52 pm

robots is a plan Mozilla have for firefox.
it’s the name of a set of modules-like plugins for how they want to “grow” the browser beyond it’s current platform and abilities…..stay tuned

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6 Nicholas June 20, 2008 at 2:41 am

If nobody has clicked on the Try Again button, I strongly urge you to do so. Twice ;)

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7 Kurth June 20, 2008 at 5:45 am

Anyone else notice the last bullet? A reference to Bender?

“Bite My Shiny Metal Ass!” – Bender

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8 Ryan Barnes June 20, 2008 at 7:00 am

about:ninjas? DAMN!

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9 Kori June 20, 2008 at 8:10 am

Check the source, some funny Ghostbusters humour in there:

http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul

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10 Scott Beale June 20, 2008 at 8:12 am

Thanks Greg & Doc, I’ll update the post with both of those.

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11 Giancarlo June 20, 2008 at 2:42 pm

Interesting try this about:mozilla

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