Mozilla has begun building a new technology called IonMonkey into Firefox to improve its JavaScript performance. High JavaScript performance is essential in today's hotly competitive browser ...

Mozilla has revved up its SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine with a new just-in-time compiler. The TraceMonkey project boosts JavaScript performance by an order of magnitude. TraceMonkey is slated for ...

Mozilla's co-founder and former CEO Brendan Eich has been at the center of Internet development for almost 20 years.

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 ...

Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and some of the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.

After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars.

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 ...

The Mozilla Foundation and graphic rendering technology company Otoy have built a video codec, written with JavaScript and WebGL, that would eliminate the need for using plug-ins to view video in ...

But, whichever browser you use, be aware that running JavaScript can be the point of entry for intrusive and infectious malware. Use caution before deciding to allow it on any site that you visit.

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 ...

Last April, Mozilla announced that Gary Kovacs was stepping down as the organization's CEO and that it would start looking for a replacement. At the time, Jay Sullivan took over as acting CEO in ...