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title: >
  Very curious...
date: 2004-05-12 15:50
status: published
tags: Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Microsoft

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<p>
Mozilla browsers have long had an <q>easter egg</q> whereby if you enter <code>about:mozilla</code> into the location bar, you're presented with a nice quote from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla" title="The Book of Mozilla on Wikipedia">the Book of Mozilla</a>.
</p>
<p>
What's queer, is that entering <code>about:mozilla</code> into Internet Explorer gives a blue page. No other <code>about:</code> address (that I've tried) does this.
</p>
<p>
Surely Microsoft aren't nicking source code?
</p>
<p>
Incidentally, why haven't Mozilla's copyright/trademark folks taken Microsoft to court over their use of <q>Mozilla</q> in IE's user agent string?
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