Neowin News Feed for: Webassembly

Mozilla launches Firefox 95 with RLBox and Site Isolation for added security

Paul Hill — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:56:02 +0000

Firefox 95 is out with improved security and performance. On the security-front, Firefox 95 is hardened with RLBox to protect against vulnerabilities and Site Isolation is on for everyone too. Read more...

WebAssembly organisation Bytecode Alliance welcomes Microsoft, Google and others

Paul Hill — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:16:01 +0000

The Bytecode Alliance has incorporated as a 501(c)(6) non-profit organisation. Mozilla said this will allow the Alliance to scale better as it lets in its first raft of new members. Read more...

Microsoft Flight Simulator VR beta heads closer, SDK updated

Hamza Jawad — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:54:01 +0000

This week, there is a bunch of news to go around regarding Flight Simulator deliverables, including information on the closed beta for VR, the publicly available SDK, the Partnership series, and more. Read more...

Google Earth is now available on most major browsers, Safari misses out

Jay Bonggolto — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:58:01 +0000

Google Earth for the web has finally come to more browsers like Edge, Opera, and Firefox, courtesy of the WebAssembly standard. The web-based service was originally available on Chrome only. Read more...

Mozilla, Intel, and more form the Bytecode Alliance to take WebAssembly beyond browsers

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:24:01 +0000

Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat, and Fastly have announced the co-founding of the Bytecode Alliance, which aims to create new software foundations based on WebAssembly and WebAssembly System Interface. Read more...

Mozilla speeds up calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly in latest beta

Paul Hill — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 20:32:02 +0000

In the latest beta version of Firefox, Mozilla has dramatically sped up WebAssembly calls from Firefox. This should make some browser-based games, that use WebAssembly, run much faster. Read more...

Firefox 58 released with speedier WebAssembly compiler

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:38:01 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox 58 today with new features such as a two-tiered WebAssembly compiler for speedier browsing, and support for credit cards within the in-built auto-fill tool. Read more...

Firefox 58 gets speed boost with streaming compilation

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:14:01 +0000

Mozilla plans to ship Firefox 58 on January 23 with a new two-tiered compiler which will give a big performance boost to browsing. You should notice faster browsing on both desktop and mobile. Read more...

WebAssembly reaches browser preview, will bring universal bytecode to the web

Boyd Chan — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 11:42:01 +0000

The next scripting revolution for the web inched closer to reality with the 'browser preview' of WebAssembly now available in experimental form in Firefox and Chrome, with Edge nearly ready to ship. Read more...