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SP2 IE and about:mozilla

So one change in IE that came with sp2, that I haven't seen anybody comment on, is that about:mozilla is gone. Before I installed sp2, i had my homepage set to about:mozilla because it gave a nice colored window as the default. But now all it does it show the word "mozilla" on a white background. If you are annoyed that your nice default html is no longer around, there is a little trick that not many people know, which is that you can put any html you want in an about url, and IE will show it. So just write a simple html page that displays any color/design you want and set that text as your homepage.
Published Aug 17 2004, 05:41 AM by Andy Smith

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An Example? said:

Can you provide an example of this? I assumed you meant something like about:<body>Welcome</body>, but this shows me an "Action Canceled" page.
August 17, 2004 8:50 AM
 

Jerry Pisk said:

Oh yeah, that about:<html here> doesn't work anymore... But you can still create your own about: urls, just add them to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs (and yes, mozilla is gone).
August 17, 2004 12:20 PM
 

Andy Smith said:

Ya, you can't seem to type them in anymore, but you can set them as your homepage and it'll work when you just start IE.
August 17, 2004 3:19 PM
 

Brad Wilson said:

Have you tried:

res://mshtml.dll/about.moz

This is what about:mozilla really points to. Maybe it's still in there, even if the about: link isn't hooked up any more...
August 17, 2004 9:22 PM
 

Brad Wilson said:

Oh, and it's probably worth pointing out that Firefox (0.8, I think) has this for about:mozilla:

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.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
August 17, 2004 9:23 PM
 

DrFoomod2 said:

I no longer use IE as my default browser, but to make things come up quick, I editted the shortcut for the quick launch bar entry for IE. Just add -nohome to the end. This causes IE not even to load about:blank. After you launch IE, hit ESC and see what happens.
August 17, 2004 10:06 PM
 

Jon Galloway said:

So are you working for Microsoft now? So your "so speach" would lead me to believe.
August 18, 2004 12:59 AM
 

Jon Galloway said:

;-)
August 18, 2004 1:10 AM
 

Andy Smith said:

Oof.

And I'm not usually one to adopt communal phrases either... I guess this one is just too addictive.
August 18, 2004 1:46 AM
 

Barnaby Rubblesworth said:

thanks for the clue (res://mshtml.dll/about.moz)

glad to have the pretty blue blank screen back again!
September 10, 2004 8:52 PM
 

Guest said:

Mammon refers to Microsoft Internet Explorer.

March 1, 2008 3:29 PM
 

about mozilla said:

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April 4, 2008 3:11 PM

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