Mozilla's Firefox web browser was one of the first to optimize for today's JavaScript-heavy web pages. Mozilla's new Tracemonkey JavaScript engine -- released with Firefox 3.5-- put the browser at the ...

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 ...

Back in 2012, Mozilla launched Thimble, an online code editor for teaching the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Over time, though, things got pretty quiet around the project as other browser-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...