V8, the JavaScript engine featured in Google’s Chrome browser, is getting improvements in performance and code optimization courtesy of both the V8 team and the Russia Academy of Sciences. For ...

Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times faster than Futhark, the JavaScript engine in the Opera 10 browser. It could be even faster when ready, the company said.

Google has shipped a new JavaScript compiler for its V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome called Sparkplug that promises a much faster web experience – and it does it by 'cheating', according to the ...

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that is built on the JavaScript engine that Chrome uses, V8. One of the main updates in this release is that the V8 engine was updated to version 11.8.

Learn how to implement Javascript redirects while mitigating as much risk as possible based on Google documentation.

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used ...

Eligible browser JavaScript engines include JavaScriptCore (Safari), V8 (Chrome, Edge), and Spidermonkey (Firefox), but security researchers can pitch other engines in their submitted proposals.

Mozilla’s last previous major JavaScript engine upgrade was TraceMonkey, which gave Firefox 3.5 a big speed boost. Since then, however, “the Web has grown more complex, with more and more ...

The vulnerability is considered to be of high severity. The little technical information Google did share includes the detail that CVE-2021-21148 affects Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.

Microsoft announced it will open source the JavaScript engine for the new Edge web browser released with Windows 10.