Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by ...

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 ...

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 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.

Firefox, Chrome virtually tied for JavaScript speed The latest Chrome and Firefox versions edged ahead in performance, but Chrome edged more. Could Google's Native Client project make the test ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 most significant change over Firefox 8 is the addition of type inference to the JavaScript engine, which singlehandedly improves JS execution speed by 20 to 30%.