Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!

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.

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.

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 ...