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 ...

Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 18 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include a new JavaScript compiler, preliminary WebRTC as well as Retina support (on Macs). The ...

Browsers today are able to execute JavaScript code significantly faster than just a few years ago, but even as our web apps now look more like desktop apps, JavaScript performance is still a far cry ...

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 ...

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 ...

On by default in Firefox 83, the Warp update to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine improves responsiveness and memory usage and speeds up page loads Firefox users can expect improved JavaScript ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today is beta-release day at Mozilla, and the organization is launching new beta versions of Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set to get the most ...

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 ...

CNET reports on the presentation of a JavaScript security flaw -- which is really a variation of an old issue -- that potentially affects Firefox when running under Mac OS X (and other operating ...

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 ...