Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by ...

Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.

Mozilla has released Firefox 18 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. New features include faster JavaScript compiling via IonMonkey and Retina Display support.

Firefox, Chrome virtually tied for JavaScript speed The latest Chrome and Firefox versions edged ahead in performance, but Chrome edged more. Could Google's Native Client project make the test ...

Firefox's graphics and JavaScript performance should improve with new Mozilla projects. Don't expect results by Firefox 5's June release, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because ...

The Firefox Nightly beta makes these calls run faster than non-in-lined JavaScript-to-JavaScript function calls. Calls have been optimized from JavaScript to WebAssembly and vice versa.

Specifically, new JavaScript technology in this upcoming release makes the open source browser as much as 26 percent faster than Firefox 17, promising a quicker, snappier experience for users.

The introduction of a new module to Firefox 9's JavaScript engine will speed up its surfing performance by some margin.

Firefox's new Scratchpad is different from Firefox's other JavaScript dev tools in that it is just, as the Mozilla Blog puts it, "a text editor that knows how to run JavaScript." Scratchpad gets ...

JavaScript performance is particularly critical for calculation-intensive Web applications and browser-based games. Though recent beta releases of Firefox 4 have revealed significant improvements ...

Mozilla on Wednesday patched a single critical security vulnerability in the JavaScript engine of Firefox, updating the open-source browser to Version 2.0.0.14. According to the associated ...