Mozilla’s asm.js is a strict subset of JavaScript that Firefox can run significantly faster than regular JavaScript code. Thanks to the so-called OdinMonkey module for Firefox’s built-in JavaScript ...

Mozilla’s JavaScript team is on a mission to renovate the JavaScript engine for the upcoming major release of Firefox. When version 3.5 landed with major JS performance upgrades including the ...

Browsers today are able to execute JavaScript code significantly faster than just a few years ago, but even as our web apps now look more like desktop apps, JavaScript performance is still a far cry ...

Now, the ability to turn off JavaScript in PDF documents is effortless to get done, though not as straightforward as we would like. That is because the ability to disable JavaScript is not available ...

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 ...

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 ...

Where is Firefox 3.1, the next significant upgrade to the popular open source browser? Originally scheduled to arrive in December 2008, Firefox 3.1 has been delayed several times already and now ...

Mozilla’s latest beta version of the Firefox browser, Firefox Nightly, makes calls between the WebAssembly binary format and JavaScript faster, so it is easier to combine the two languages.

Gal, recruited six years ago by former CTO and short-lived CEO Brendan Eich, brings continuity to the nonprofit organization's top techie job. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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 ...