The addition of some rather nice Pythonic sugar in JavaScript 1.7 and 1.8 is a great start, and the recent emergence of consensus in the standards community on the future of ECMAScript lifts some ...

Specifically, new JavaScript technology in this upcoming release makes the open source browser as much as 26 percent faster than Firefox 17, promising a quicker, snappier experience for users.

Mozilla has released Firefox 18 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. New features include faster JavaScript compiling via IonMonkey and Retina Display support.

The Firefox Nightly beta makes these calls run faster than non-in-lined JavaScript-to-JavaScript function calls. Calls have been optimized from JavaScript to WebAssembly and vice versa.

Speed tests comparing it to the current Firefox 15 show IonMonkey improves JavaScript performance by 26 percent on Mozilla's Kraken benchmark and 20 percent on Google's V8 benchmark (which, by the ...

Still, Firefox and Mozilla are a force to be reckoned with, and no one ever complains about faster JavaScript performance -- so here's hoping that OdinMonkey makes a splash, and that dynamic ...

JavaScript creator and Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks against Chrome and the latest TraceMonkey-enabled Firefox build, which includes some recent improvements.

Apple’s “fastest browser” boast (see my Safari 4 beta preview) is proved by SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark tests against Firefox 3.0.5, both running on OS X Leopard 10.5.6.

Firefox will soon be getting faster thanks to Mozilla's IonMonkey, a new JavaScript just-in-time compiler. IonMonkey is set to arrive early next year, but you can try it today in the Firefox ...

The next version, Firefox 5, is due June 21, according to release manager Christian Legnitto. But don't expect the JavaScript and graphics changes to arrive that soon.

TraceMonkey was placed in the Firefox 3.1 development tree this week. It is slated to be featured in Firefox 3.1, which is due to be available the end of this year.

In the case of Firefox 9, the type inference engine seems to produce up to 30% faster JavaScript execution. It varies from benchmark to benchmark, but the performance improvement is unmistakable.