Chrome's latest release addresses a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine that could be ...

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 ...

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 says the latest Google Chrome release comes with a significant performance boost due to newly added improvements to the open-source V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Google has released the latest Chrome 140 update with several vulnerability fixes, available in Chrome versions 140.0.7339.80/81 for Windows and macOS and 140.0.7339.80 for Linux. According to Google, ...

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