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 ...

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 ...

JavaScript is a standard web programming language that delivers interactive web pages. JavaScript takes advantage of the enhanced functionality and dynamic interfaces that a website may have to offer.

Some 20 years after it was first implemented in Netscape Navigator, one of the most reviled and widely abhorred pieces of web surfing history has finally been killed. With the release of Firefox 23, ...

Firefox's graphics and JavaScript performance should improve with new Mozilla projects. Don't expect results by Firefox 5's June release, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Mozilla’s JavaScript team is on a mission to renovate the JavaScript engine for the upcoming major release of Firefox. When version 3.5 landed with major JS performance upgrades including the ...

JSTerm, an experimental Firefox add-on for JavaScript developers, has hit version 2.0. The JSTerm Firefox add-on — not to be confused with the HTML5 Telnet Emulator by the same name — adds a “jsterm” ...

The browser cycle continues, with Mozilla next to announce an update of their open-source app. Firefox 3.5 brings with it the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, said to be more than twice as fast as ...

Now, the ability to turn off JavaScript in PDF documents is effortless to get done, though not as straightforward as we would like. That is because the ability to disable JavaScript is not available ...

Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by ...

Mozilla on Wednesday patched a single critical security vulnerability in the JavaScript engine of Firefox, updating the open-source browser to Version 2.0.0.14. According to the associated advisory, ...