A slow browsing experience could hamper your tasks, especially when you use websites that run applications on them. And now with most applications moving towards the cloud computing platform, it is ...

Mozilla has unleashed the Kraken, a new JavaScript benchmark test. It joins similar efforts like Google's V8 and the WebKit project's SunSpider tests, which are widely used to measure browser ...

While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

There have been a lot of changes in the browser world since I last carried out the Big Browser Benchmark, with not only new browser versions, but a new test to throw at the browsers. Let's pit the ...

Windows 8 is out with a new version of Internet Explorer, Firefox has boosted its JavaScript power and memory usage, and Chrome's been slowly improving its speed. How do the new versions stack up ...

The Google Chrome team has added a new set of JavaScript benchmarks to the web, dubbed "Octane". Octane joins the ranks of other test suites like WebKit's SunSpider test and Mozilla's Kraken. Google's ...

Trying to improve more than just a browser's JavaScript program speed, Google lets fly with a new browser benchmark. It wants others to help improve the test, but Microsoft's IE team derides it.

It has only been a couple of months since the last Big Browser Benchmark but there has been enough changes to warrant a re-running the tests. There's also a new benchmark test to put the browsers ...