FireFox Code Name
Some of the best trivia we find come from the people who work on projects, which is why we present the real code name for Mozilla Firefox.
The internal code name for development on Mozilla's FIrefox Web Browser is generally thought to be "seamonkey".
This is inaccurrate. It's a cover name chosen by people who manage the engineers at Mozilla. The real code name chosen by engineers is "*~".
It's not a tribute to Prince, but like Prince, the engineers chose a glyph to represent the true name of the code. It is pronounced, "butt monkey". If you look at the glyph, the first symbol is a * which represents a butt. The ~ represents a symbol for a tail.
Now for the truly geeky, you may know that the JavaScript engine for Firefox, or rather *~ is known as "Spider Monkey". It's a reference to the movie, "Beavis & Butthead Do America". In the movie, the protagonist, who was the character Hank Hill from "King of the Hill" was based on, complains about finding Beavis & Butthead in his barn, "whacking off like a couple of spider monkeys."
Now you know.
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