The latest Chrome and Firefox versions edged ahead in performance, but Chrome edged more. Could Google's Native Client project make the test obsolete? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

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. Google Chrome 91, which ...

Google looks set for Chrome 86 to slash how much battery life the browser consumes. It's already experimenting with blocking unruly ads that drain battery life and jam up networks and now it is ...

Despite the obsolescence and, now, death of Flash, the Web has never been richer and more interactive. That's partly thanks to JavaScript, the much-maligned yet also widely-used programming language ...

Google is looking at ways to extend the battery life of devices running Chrome with significant numbers of tabs open in the background. The search giant has announced that starting with Chrome 86, it ...

A new project hopes to beef up the security of V8, a part of the Chrome browser that most users aren't aware of but that hackers increasingly see as a juicy target. Chrome has over two billion users, ...

SPAs often fail to trigger Core Web Vitals measurements due to soft navigations. Chrome 139 introduces a trial API to detect these and enable full metric tracking. This could lead to more accurate SEO ...

JavaScript is a programming language used to create dynamic website content. This is any content that moves, changes, or updates on your screen without you having to refresh the page. JavaScript is ...

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 ...