Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.

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. The Opera ...

The V8 6.7 engine has BigInt support enabled by default. Expected in a future version of ECMAScript, BigInts serve as a numeric primitive in JavaScript to represent integers with arbitrary precision.

Mozilla’s last previous major JavaScript engine upgrade was TraceMonkey, which gave Firefox 3.5 a big speed boost. Since then, however, “the Web has grown more complex, with more and more ...

The WebKit team has been busy. Publicly announcing a brand new JavaScript engine release, amusingly named SquirrelFish Extreme (nicknamed SFX), they're already boasting performance gains twice as ...

The new Nitro JavaScript engine is more than four times faster than the JavaScript engine in Safari 3 and, according to Apple, can execute JavaScript "up to 30 times faster than IE 7 and more than ...

Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times faster than Futhark, the JavaScript engine in the Opera 10 browser. It could be even faster when ready, the company said.

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 ...

The Moddable SDK provides a JavaScript engine for IoT development supporting greater than 99% compliance with the ES2017 specification, starting at less than 32KB.

JavaScript and SEO have long been a debated topic among developers and SEO experts. Search engines have made, and continue to make, significant improvements in indexing JavaScript websites.