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 ...

Eligible browser JavaScript engines include JavaScriptCore (Safari), V8 (Chrome, Edge), and Spidermonkey (Firefox), but security researchers can pitch other engines in their submitted proposals.

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 ...

Node.js and Deno run on the V8 Javascript engine and provide the Node-API to access different features, such as filesystems, that don’t apply to web browsers.

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.

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

The N-API effort also aims to ease support of multiple back-end JavaScript engines. Last year, Microsoft came up with a plan to swap out Google’s V8 engine with Microsoft’s ChakraCore engine .

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ECMAScript ...

The first high-severity bug, CVE-2025-8027, impacts the browser’s JavaScript engine, which only writes partial return values ...

Microsoft announced it will open source the JavaScript engine for the new Edge web browser released with Windows 10. Topics Spotlight: Managing modern risks ...