Many programming languages require a compiler to compile them to machine-readable code, but Web browsers can read JavaScript with no compilation required. However ...

Higgs, an experimental JavaScript engine written in D, uses novel approaches to speed up JavaScript -- and could inspire similar projects An experimental new JavaScript compiler could provide useful ...

Today is beta-release day at Mozilla, and the organization is launching new beta versions of Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set to get the most ...

Firefox has been getting plenty of JavaScript oriented improvements these days. First there was support for asm.js which makes it possible to create really, really fast and complex JavaScript apps.

In an effort to keep Firefox competitive with commercial browsers and handle the ever-heavier burden that interactive webpages put on browsers’ scripting engines, Mozilla is working on a new ...