On November 17, 2025, a critical security flaw in Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine sent shockwaves through the digital world. Hackers began exploiting the vulnerability before Google could release ...

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 ...

Opera Software has announced it is at work on a new JavaScript engine named Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) that is two-and-a-half times faster than the JavaScript engine in Opera 10. Opera developers ...

Google Chrome was recently updated to version 59, bringing a number of new features to the most popular web browser on the planet. The most noticeable update in Chrome 59 is the new Material Design ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft announced it has open-sourced its ChakraCore ...

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 ...

Microsoft may be on the verge of releasing the public beta version of Internet Explorer 9, but Mozilla has been busier than ever fortifying its Firefox browser with upgrades and new additions designed ...

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 ...

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...