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The Mozilla folks seem to have the following convention: any abbreviation that begins with an ‘X’ shall have all its letters capitalized. However, abbreviations beginning with any other letter shall have only the first letter capitalized. That’s how we have XMLHttpRequest, I must guess.
The Greasemonkey folks were kinda smart: they decided that conventional wisdom has it that everybody treats xmlhttp as one awesome word—and so they have GM_xmlhttpRequest, I must guess.
If my guesses are wrong, maybe people just don’t care.
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