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The secret history of “about:jwz”, “about:mozilla” and the Netscape Throbbers

Jamie Zawinsky (jwz), Mozilla hacker extraordinaire, has finally written about the secret history behind the hidden about:jwz URL, which use to show in all Mozilla browsers (Netscape, Phoenix, FireBird, FireFox, etc).

I realized recently that while I have written about the history of the about:authors URL, I have never explained the history of the about:jwz easter egg. Well, I guess it’s been long enough, so now it can be told

    

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