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

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.

In the case of Firefox 9, the type inference engine seems to produce up to 30% faster JavaScript execution. It varies from benchmark to benchmark, but the performance improvement is unmistakable.

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 9, claiming that the new browser processes JavaScript up to 36% faster than its predecessor. The company also patched six Firefox vulnerabilities, and released a ...

The next version, Firefox 5, is due June 21, according to release manager Christian Legnitto. But don't expect the JavaScript and graphics changes to arrive that soon.

With JägerMonkey, the new Firefox builds feel significantly faster, especially on JavaScript-heavy applications like Gmail and Facebook, Mandelin reported. Not only that, but the new builds are ...

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 ...

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.

JSTerm, an experimental Firefox add-on for JavaScript developers, has hit version 2.0. The JSTerm Firefox add-on — not to be confused with the HTML5 Telnet Emulator by the same name — adds a ...

On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 3.1 beta 2 and Google released Chrome 0.4.154.33, so it's time for the latest installment of JavaScript performance testing.

The addition of some rather nice Pythonic sugar in JavaScript 1.7 and 1.8 is a great start, and the recent emergence of consensus in the standards community on the future of ECMAScript lifts some ...

JavaScript creator and Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks against Chrome and the latest TraceMonkey-enabled Firefox build, which includes some recent improvements.