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 ...

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

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 ...

Gen's free Norton Secure Browser helps protect consumers from browser-based security, privacy and identity threats, according to the company. Search giant Google has been forced to patch yet ...

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

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 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.

N-API should break the dependency on Google’s V8 engine and help developers avoid recompilation for new versions and engines Help is on the way for developers building native modules for Node.js ...

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 ...

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