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It could also be a play on the phrase "Holy shit!"

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Both the reference to the GraalVM and a pun are intentional.

Maybe make its slogan: "HolyJit, it's fast!" -- with the double meaning and all.

As long as the performance of this new engine isn’t jitty.

“Could” if that’s not intentional then this browser will fail lol

This isn't a browser.

Ummm... it’s for Firefox... no?

I mean, maybe, in theory, someday. But the browser would still be "Firefox", that is, very few people would even be aware of this name, regardless of what the name is.

I think you must’ve taken my comment too seriously... I agree that Firefoxs success does not depend on the meaning behind the name holyjit lol. It was just a joke.

The main point was that if they came up with this name without the intention of punning holy shit, I have low confidence in their abilities to succeed in general and with Firefox in particular. But also don’t take this too seriously.

lol, how much of the Firefox today is still Firefox of the beginning? :D

How much of NSPR is left in there? It's been a long time since I looked at the codebase.

NSPR is still all over the tree. Off the top of my head there's some log functionality, the print format strings, and the environment variable support in use. Searchfox turns up a bunch more: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=PR_&case=true...

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