In the latest beta version of Firefox, Mozilla has dramatically sped up WebAssembly calls from Firefox. This should make some browser-based games, that use WebAssembly, run much faster. Mozilla has ...

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 and ...

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 ...

TraceMonkey will speed JavaScript applications dramatically, making browsing snappier and opening new horizons for Web applications, the open-source developer promises. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Mozilla is pursuing parallelism for JavaScript in an attempt to fully leverage available hardware capabilities. To achieve the goal of parallelism, Mozilla is experimenting with a SharedArrayBuffer ...

It seems like Google’s Chrome browser gets all the attention these days with big developer conferences and WebKit dominating mobile, but we can’t forget Firefox. Mozilla broke Microsoft’s browser ...

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 ...

That hardening work has focused on removing "potentially dangerous artifacts" in the Firefox codebase, including inline scripts and eval()-like functions, according to Mozilla's content security lead ...

"The web is evolving and so should the JavaScript benchmarks that measure its performance," says the Google blog announcing Octane, a new JavaScript benchmark. Due to this, Google has ditched the ...

Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript scripting language and chief technology officer at Mozilla, has joined the advisory board of Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based Ajax.org. We recently wrote about ...

Overview: JavaScript powers essential website features like payments, videos, forms, and menus across modern browsers today.Enabling JavaScript in Windows brows ...