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 ...

SYDNEY--The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe Systems' ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed ...

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 its ...

Google Chrome users can now turn JavaScript bookmarklets into Chrome extensions in just a few clicks thanks to a new tool created by U.K.-based Web developer Peter Legierski. The process is not as ...

Google today revealed a tweak it has made in the latest Chrome beta to further boost performance: concurrent compilation, which offloads a large part of the optimizing compilation phase to a ...

A 'type confusion' flaw in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine can enable a hacker to corrupt the software's memory and execute malicious computer code.

Google patches two critical V8 flaws, including actively exploited CVE-2025-13223, urging immediate Chrome updates.

The Google Chrome team has added a new set of JavaScript benchmarks to the web, dubbed "Octane". Octane joins the ranks of other test suites like WebKit's SunSpider test and Mozilla's Kraken. Google's ...