Mozilla’s JavaScript team is on a mission to renovate the JavaScript engine for the upcoming major release of Firefox. When version 3.5 landed with major JS performance upgrades including the ...

Most of you use Chrome as a browser, and good news arrives as Google implemented a serious performance enhancement. Starting with revision 91 you'll be able to benefit from an increase of 23 percent ...

One of the most impressive features in Google’s open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...

The biggest jump in JavaScript performance since Chrome was introduced will help fan the flames of today's hot browser competition. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The beta V8 Version 7.4 is now available, with the potential to expand the engine’s footprint to platforms such as Apple iOS. V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine for the ...

When Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer (IE) 9, one of the key new components of that browser was its JavaScript engine, codenamed "Chakra." Chakra is still alive and well in IE10, and will be ...

Czech antivirus maker Avast has taken the extreme step of disabling a major component of its antivirus product after a security researcher found a dangerous vulnerability that put all of the company's ...

Search engines have made improvements in indexing JavaScript websites. But the question of whether they can properly render JS pages remains muddled. JavaScript and SEO have long been a debated topic ...

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