Mozilla’s high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior ...

Trying to keep competitive when running Web-based software, Mozilla is working to speed up its engine for running JavaScript software. Expect it in early 2013. Mozilla says the new IonMonkey ...

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 the ...

Mozilla Labs has released a Javascript engine (Narcissus engine and Zaphod script look-up tool) built to help coders test and help developers gain a deeper understanding of the code used to build the ...

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 on Tuesday shipped its newest browser, Firefox 18, which sports a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple’s higher-resolution Retina displays. The open-source developer also ...

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 a ...

JavaScript creator and Brendan Eich has taken over the CEO spot at the Mozilla Corporation, continuing the company’s charge into mobile platforms. Eich formerly occupied the role of chief technology ...

In the quest for better browser speed, Mozilla has begun work on new Firefox engines for running JavaScript programs and displaying graphics. The new JavaScript engine, including a compiler called ...

In an effort to keep Firefox competitive with commercial browsers and handle the ever-heavier burden that interactive webpages put on browsers’ scripting engines, Mozilla is working on a new ...

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 ...

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 ...