After more than 18 months of hard graft, Mozilla has finally succeeded in landing a big addition to Firefox's JavaScript engine that, upon initial testing, speeds up the web -- or at least the vast ...

Mozilla on Monday announced the release of Firefox 18 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can download it now from Mozilla.org/Firefox/Beta. The biggest addition in ...

Things never stand still for long in the world of Web browsers, and Mozilla’s popular Firefox contender is no exception. Just a few weeks ago I was writing about Firefox 17 even as Firefox 15 was ...

One of the most impressive features in Google’s open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...

Firefox will soon be getting another JavaScript speed boost thanks to a project Mozilla calls "IonMonkey." The project is a new just-in-time (JIT) compiler for Firefox’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine ...

On by default in Firefox 83, the Warp update to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine improves responsiveness and memory usage and speeds up page loads Firefox users can expect improved JavaScript ...

Mozilla's Firefox web browser was one of the first to optimize for today's JavaScript-heavy web pages. Mozilla's new Tracemonkey JavaScript engine -- released with Firefox 3.5-- put the browser at the ...

Microsoft may be on the verge of releasing the public beta version of Internet Explorer 9, but Mozilla has been busier than ever fortifying its Firefox browser with upgrades and new additions designed ...

The browser cycle continues, with Mozilla next to announce an update of their open-source app. Firefox 3.5 brings with it the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, said to be more than twice as fast as ...

Trying to keep competitive when running Web-based software, Mozilla is working to speed up its engine for running JavaScript software. Expect it in early 2013. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

You may remember a couple months ago there was some contention whether Safari or Firefox had the fastest JavaScript performance. Apple had claimed Safari 3 was the ...

Thursday marked yet another chapter in the short, rocky history of Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 browser, as the foundation released a security update a little more than two weeks after unveiling it. Firefox ...