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I'm getting confused by all the monkeys. SpiderMonkey is the "script engine". JagerMonkey is the current JIT for SpiderMonkey, and IonMonkey is an improvement over JagerMonkey. ??? The naming needs to ...

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With Firefox 17 out the door, Mozilla is turning its attention to Firefox 18, which is now available in the Firefox beta channel. The focus for this release is speed, with Mozilla set to deliver a new ...

According to Microsoft's vulnerability research team, the most common attacks on web browsers that exploit vulnerabilities are exploiting bugs around the Javascript engine. If you know that you are ...

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 ...