You may remember a couple months ago there was some contention whether Safari or Firefox had the fastest JavaScript performance. Apple had claimed Safari 3 was the ...

Apple have launched Safari 4, the latest version of their browser for OS X and Windows. Claimed to run JavaScript over four times faster than Safari 3 and thirty times faster than IE7, thanks to the ...

Apple released the latest major version of its Web browser, Safari 5, earlier this week. Along with several new features—one of them somewhat controversial—the update was said to pack a number of ...

Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro. The new Nitro JavaScript engine ...

Apple is apparently working on significant improvements to JavaScript performance for its Safari browser, as shown by the inclusion of accelerator upgrades in recent builds of WebKit, reports ...

Apple’s “fastest browser” boast (see my Safari 4 beta preview) is proved by SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark tests against Firefox 3.0.5, both running on OS X Leopard 10.5.6. The SunSpider JavaScript ...

A release candidate of Microsoft's next-generation Internet Explorer browser made available this week has twice finished last in a five-browser benchmark competition. On the Sunspider JavaScript ...

There's a performance arms race going on among the various JavaScript engines in your favorite web browsers. The latest to leap ahead is SquirrelFish Extreme, a new version of the JavaScript rendering ...

In the current public beta of Safari (2-12-03) there is a JavaScript bug that causes the browser to ignore "close window" buttons, traditionally used on pop-up windows and some navigation schemes.

The WebKit project announced this week a new and improved JavaScript interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish. SquirrelFish promises 1.6 times faster JavaScript performance as compared to Webkit/Safari ...