JaegerMonkey is the new JavaScript engine coming in Firefox 4, and it looks to be as big a jump in performance as TraceMonkey once was (relative to the pre-Chrome days). You can try out ...

The latest improvement? The JägerMonkey JavaScript engine, which promises to propel Firefox ahead when it comes to JavaScript processing. JavaScript performance is particularly critical for ...

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 ...

Once among the fastest, Firefox's TraceMonkey JavaScript engine has slipped behind the performance offered by Chrome, Opera, and Safari. In hopes of propelling Firefox into the lead, Mozilla is ...

After more than 18 months of hard graft, Mozilla has finally succeeded in landing a big addition to Firefox's JavaScript engine that, upon initial testing, speeds up the web -- or at least the ...

OdinMonkey is a module for Firefox's IonMonkey JS engine that optimizes the execution of asm.js. In short, asm.js takes specially-crafted JavaScript code, compiles it to native assembly language ...

Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8. Mozilla is using tracing ...

That sounds like a reasonable claim: Firefox 18 makes the browser faster and more feature-filled than ever. Amongst the biggest changes 18 brings is a brand new JavaScript engine. Named IonMonkey ...

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Learn More. The Mozilla Foundation plans to release a new version of its flagship Firefox browser as early as this weekend to patch a known JavaScript Engine flaw. The flaw, which puts users at ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. A moderately critical security flaw in the Mozilla ...