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 “jsterm” ...

Within the latest nightly release of Firefox 18 currently under development by Mozilla, the new Javascript engines called IonMonkey have appeared in their first release. The new Javascript engines ...

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because of ...

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 ...

Things never stand still for long in the world of Web browsers, and Mozilla’s popular Firefox contender is no exception. Just a few weeks ago I was writing about Firefox 17 even as Firefox 15 was ...

In the quest for better browser speed, Mozilla has begun work on new Firefox engines for running JavaScript programs and displaying graphics. The new JavaScript engine, including a compiler called ...

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 ...

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.

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’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.