Mozilla has unleashed the Kraken, a new JavaScript benchmark test. It joins similar efforts like Google's V8 and the WebKit project's SunSpider tests, which are widely used to measure browser ...

A slow browsing experience could hamper your tasks, especially when you use websites that run applications on them. And now with most applications moving towards the cloud computing platform, it is ...

There have been a lot of changes in the browser world since I last carried out the Big Browser Benchmark, with not only new browser versions, but a new test to throw at the browsers. Let's pit the ...

Finnish-based benchmark development company, Futuremark, has just unveiled an online-based benchmarking tool for measuring the performance of Web browsers, and so far results are showing that Safari 4 ...

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While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

I'm developing a JavaScript application that has some non-essential functionality that is slow for older browsers (the main concern is the corporate IE6). I would like to warn (or possibly just ...