Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is intended to be the fastest JavaScript engine on the planet, according to Opera. Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The 9.0 release of the V8 JavaScript engine, powering Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, improves the performance of making WebAssembly calls from JavaScript, adds regular expression match ...

As the beta release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 looms large, speedy new additions to Firefox 4 promise stiff competition.

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 ...

Google has set up a research grant program to help and sponsor security researchers and academics find vulnerabilities in browser JavaScript engines. The program has one rule, namely that the bugs ...

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.