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 ...

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 ...

A newly discovered malware infected multiple Firefox browser add-ons with more than 50,000 downloads combined.

Proposed by Mozilla, the alternative license for the JavaScript specification allows for forks, aligning with the W3C software license covering HTML and CSS. Ecma International, which oversees the ...

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because of ...

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 ...

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 ...

GhostPoster malware hid inside 17 Firefox add-ons, abusing logo files to hijack links, inject tracking code, and run ad fraud ...

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 ...

On Friday, Mozilla announced the availability of the first Firefox 3.6 alpha release. It introduces several new features and brings a number of performance improvements to the popular open source Web ...