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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 ...

Abstract: Just-In-Time(JIT) compilers embedded in JavaScript engines significantly boost runtime performance but also introduce difficult-to-detect vulnerabilities. Fuzz testing has proven effective ...

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 ...

Google and Microsoft, which now both contribute to the Chromium project, apparently share concerns about the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Microsoft's Edge ...

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 Windows group policy there is a GPO called "Control use of JavaScript JIT". When I enable it and select "Do not allow any site to run JavaScript JIT" and run gpupdate /force and re-open brave ...