Why did nobody tell me???

[andrewducker]

Why did no one tell me what happened if you typed "about:robots" into the address bar in firefox?

Comments

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

HA! Awesome.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Does Skynet take over your computer?

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Did you see in the source, it also references this site - http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul

:)

[andrewducker]

Didn't look at the source. That's very cool.

[cdave]

It has done for years, if not more than a decade! I remember being impressed by this at Uni when I was mucking about with extentions.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

We did. You just weren't paying attention.

[matgb]

Is what I was going to say.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Next you should Google "recursion." ;>


PS -- this was completely new to me as well, and very amusing.

[botrytis.livejournal.com]

I pressed the button too many times.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, definitely press the button.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Heh. Fun.
Now could the geeks get on and fix the damn memory leaks? And that bloody stupid 'Offline mode' bug?

[andrewducker]

What memory leaks? I haven't heard about memory leak problems since 3.0 came out. In fact, a quick google shows that Firefox uses the least memory of any browser:
http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory
or close to it:
http://cybernetnews.com/browser-comparison-internet-explorer-firefox-chrome-safari-opera/

What's the offline mode problem? Not heard of that one.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Memory leaks: after 5-6 hours of work my Firefox can sometimes decide it wants 100% of CPU and fuck knows how much memory. Now I do chuck a lot at it (5-6 windows, sometimes a dozen tabs each) but it's still not on.

As for the offline bug, it's maybe because you don't do any localhost work. If FF has no connection to the internet, it switches itself into 'Offline mode' (which is largely pointless anyway) and then won't even browse localhost sites.
What is even more irritating and really bad UI is that it says 'You can't go to this site because you are in offline mode. To leave offline mode, please do untick it in the menu'.

[andrewducker]

I frequently have my browser at work open for more than a week. I don't end up with that problem. Could it be an addon you have?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Maybe... do you have Firebug? I expect all my colleagues use it as a matter of course and we all grumble about FF being a resource hog.

[andrewducker]

Nope, don't use it.

[andrewducker]

Aha! See the end of this page:
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=127&can=4&q=

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I just tried it!

And then I remembered I use Opera on this netbook... d'oh!

Still, it took me to Google and showed me a screen dump.

I do like their sense of humour.