Mozilla's Firefox web browser was one of the first to optimize for today's JavaScript-heavy web pages. Mozilla's new Tracemonkey JavaScript engine -- released with Firefox 3.5-- put the browser at the ...

Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript scripting language and chief technology officer at Mozilla, has joined the advisory board of Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based Ajax.org. We recently wrote about ...

TraceMonkey will speed JavaScript applications dramatically, making browsing snappier and opening new horizons for Web applications, the open-source developer promises. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Mozilla is pursuing parallelism for JavaScript in an attempt to fully leverage available hardware capabilities. To achieve the goal of parallelism, Mozilla is experimenting with a SharedArrayBuffer ...

Mozilla has unleashed the Kraken, a new JavaScript benchmark test. It joins similar efforts like Google's V8 and the WebKit project's SunSpider tests, which are widely used to measure browser ...

On Friday, Mozilla announced the availability of the first Firefox 3.6 alpha release. It introduces several new features and brings a number of performance improvements to the popular open source Web ...