7 Hidden Pages for Firefox

Posted on July 30th, 2007 by Jason

These have been around for quite sometime now but you might want to check them out again. For newer Mozilla Firefox users, these are quite interesting. Firefox does actually have these so-called hidden pages. Call them easter eggs if you want but a bunch of these hidden pages are quite useful.

You can just type these in the address bar and press enter to access the pages. Here are the magnificent seven:

about: – The same as the one under the Help menu. So I’m not sure if this is exactly hidden. Shows the same thing.
about:buildconfig – Shows the build configurations and some parameters
about:cache – Shows you some detailed stats on your disk and memory cache which includes the directory and the list of files/web pages accessed and stored there.
about:config – Pointed this out way back. Allows you to configure Firefox in-depth.

about:plugins – Lists all the installed plug-ins in your browser.
about:credits – The long-ish list of people who have helped in building our favorite browser.
about:Mozilla – Freaky if you ask me. And very cryptic. It seems to be a quote from a passage in “The Book of Mozilla.” You can’t find that anywhere though. Reads:

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.

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  5. nix on 03 Aug 2007 at 3:44 pm #

    Here is a fun one that shows you all the about commands.

    about:about

    That way you only have to remember one command. :-)
    Regards,
    Nix

  6. nix on 03 Aug 2007 at 3:45 pm #

    Acutally I take it back; it doesn’t work in the 2.0 builds. Last time I tried about:about was the 1.x branch as well as the old Mozilla suite. So, it has been removed. Sorry, should have tested it on the newer branch before I posted.

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