In the latest beta version of Firefox, Mozilla has dramatically sped up WebAssembly calls from Firefox. This should make some browser-based games, that use WebAssembly, run much faster. Mozilla has ...

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 ...

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 ...

It seems like Google’s Chrome browser gets all the attention these days with big developer conferences and WebKit dominating mobile, but we can’t forget Firefox. Mozilla broke Microsoft’s browser ...

Mozilla has developed a version of JavaScript called asm.js that they claim will offer performance near that of native code, which will allow a web browser to run almost any application, reports Ars ...

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 ...

That hardening work has focused on removing "potentially dangerous artifacts" in the Firefox codebase, including inline scripts and eval()-like functions, according to Mozilla's content security lead ...

Google, in their grasp for browser domination, have unveiled Octane, a JavaScript benchmark suite. Octane is a browser benchmark that measures performance when running the "complex and demanding web ...

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 ...