Netscape builtin bits

Browser destinations

There are surprising amount of things that are built into the browser:


some interesting things

<a href=livescript:>
<a href=javascript:>
<a href=mocha:> <a href=mocha:>
starts the interactive javascript console
<a href=view-source:url> show me the source of the selected url
<a href=mailbox:box> show me the mail window

About what

<a href=about:> tell me about the browser
<a href=about:authors> If you're German, you may not like this
<a href=about:1994> UNIX only Show me some mugshots of the development team
<a href=about:document> whats the status of this document
<a href=about:license> whats the license
<a href=about:plugins> whats plugins are loaded?
<a href=about:mailintro> what sort of things does netscape do then
<a href=about:mozilla> whats mozilla then? on UNIX systems, your icons should change to something like
mozilla animation® This image above is a looped version of a Mozilla Illustration that can be found at: http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/starter/samples/mozilla.gif.

Mozilla illustrations may be used on your page but you must mention somewhere on your page that Mozilla is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation.


About the client

The links wont work for Netscape3, but try typing these into the box marked location at the top of the screen
about:global show me a history
about:cache whats in the cache?
about:image-cache whats in the image cache?
about:memory-cache whats in the memory cache?

keyboard things

CTRL-ATL-T what's the transfer status?
CTRL-ATL-F goes to the amazing fishcam
CTRL-ATL-S toggles the status bar, try this in the dialogs started from the security options and wonder why the heck it works
CTRL-ATL-ESC errr - is this a windows feature

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