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.

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 ...

If you want to disable JavaScript from running in Mozilla Firefox, then you need to change this hidden setting. JavaScript can be a security risk!

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 performance is particularly critical for calculation-intensive Web applications and browser-based games. Though recent beta releases of Firefox 4 have revealed significant improvements ...

JaegerMonkey, from a layman’s perspective… Started back in January 2010, JaeagerMonkey is to eventually become the JavaScript engine for Firefox 4.0.

Firefox's new Scratchpad is different from Firefox's other JavaScript dev tools in that it is just, as the Mozilla Blog puts it, "a text editor that knows how to run JavaScript." Scratchpad gets ...

Andreas Gal, an engineer who helped speed up the Firefox browser at a crucial moment and then helped launch the Firefox OS project, has been promoted to Mozilla's new chief technology officer.

Firefox will soon be getting faster thanks to Mozilla's IonMonkey, a new JavaScript just-in-time compiler. IonMonkey is set to arrive early next year, but you can try it today in the Firefox ...

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.

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 9, claiming that the new browser processes JavaScript up to 36% faster than its predecessor.