I'm developing a JavaScript application that has some non-essential functionality that is slow for older browsers (the main concern is the corporate IE6). I would like to warn (or possibly just ...

The latest Chrome and Firefox versions edged ahead in performance, but Chrome edged more. Could Google's Native Client project make the test obsolete? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

What just happened? A recent preview version of Firefox was seemingly able to beat Chrome in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, an old speed test from Apple's WebKit team. The team celebrated and ...

I saw this in a RISC-V video (the latest one from Explaining computers, it's linked by someone in the RISC-V thread). Similar to Kraken, it's a browser-based ray tracer written in Javascript. While it ...

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 vast ...

Apple today released Safari 4, the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser. Available for Mac and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari 4 features the Nitro ...