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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

Microsoft may be on the verge of releasing the public beta version of Internet Explorer 9, but Mozilla has been busier than ever fortifying its Firefox browser with upgrades and new additions designed ...

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 latest Chrome and Firefox versions edged ahead in performance, but Chrome edged more. Could Google's Native Client project make the test obsolete? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Another six weeks have gone by, and another version of Firefox has been released. Still not officially “live,” Firefox 9 improves on Firefox 8 with a JavaScript engine that’s up to 30 percent faster ...

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 on Monday announced the release of Firefox 18 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can download it now from Mozilla.org/Firefox/Beta. The biggest addition in ...

Thursday marked yet another chapter in the short, rocky history of Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 browser, as the foundation released a security update a little more than two weeks after unveiling it. Firefox ...