Mozilla’s last previous major JavaScript engine upgrade was TraceMonkey, which gave Firefox 3.5 a big speed boost. Since then, however, “the Web has grown more complex, with more and more ...

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 ...

Mozilla already incorporated tracing optimization into Tamarin, a next-generation JavaScript runtime engine that leverages Adobe's ActionScript virtual machine. Tamarin, however, still lacks ...

Mozilla claims that the Javascript engine will also benefit mobile developers, confirming that it is working with studios including EA, Disney and ZeptoLab to help them improve their mobile games.

While Narcissus is the JavaScript engine itself, it is not well integrated into the browser, and that is where Zaphod comes in. Zaphod integrates Narcissus into Firefox making it easier to use the ...

That just won’t do for Firefox, says Mozilla, which wants to bring over its own code, like the new IonMonkey engine found in the desktop and Android versions of Firefox.