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 for ...

Web browsers are among the most essential pieces of software we use daily, yet we often take them for granted. Most users settle for whatever default ships with their devices -- and that's a mistake.

The programming language for Web sites and Web apps is less complex and therefore easier to develop, Chrome programmers argue at Google I/O. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Apple has patched an actively exploited zero-day bug in its WebKit browser engine for Safari. The bug, assigned as CVE-2024-23222, stems from a type confusion error, which basically is what happens ...

A zero-day vulnerability in Chromium-based browsers, identified as CVE-2025-10585, allows active exploitation through the V8 JavaScript engine's just-in-time compiler. Users are advised to update ...

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. As promised, Mozilla has released the first Nightly build of Servo, its new browser ...

Carakan, intended to be world's fastest JavaScript engine, will be released in as-yet-undetermined version of the Opera browser Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is ...

We already know Safari is fast. One of the fastest browsers out there and probably (Firefox 3?) the fastest mainstream browser around on Windows or Mac. However, it is set to get even faster with the ...

Apple argues that, since it controls WebKit and it is the only browser engine on these devices, the restriction allows the company to make sweeping security and privacy improvements across all ...

The Edge browser that comes with Windows 10 shows a marked improvement in performance, particularly in the area of JavaScript performance. Now Microsoft wants to amp up performance even more, and is ...