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 ...

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 ...

A Chrome programmer seeks support for a new Mozilla technology to bridge the C and JavaScript languages -- even though Google has competing ideas. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google Chrome is getting a new feature that increases security when clicking on web page links that open URLs in a new window or tab. When inserting links into an ...

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, ...

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 ...