If you ever needed a sign that a new era has dawned at Microsoft, this is it: The company announced it is bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X. ChakraCore is the main element of the Chakra JavaScript ...

The Edge browser that comes with Windows 10 shows a marked improvement in performance, particularly in the area of JavaScript performance. Now Microsoft wants to amp up performance even more, and is ...

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 ...

Javascript is a programming language that's loved and reviled in equal measures. Often seen as a powerful and complex beast, it has enabled many rich experiences on the Web that wouldn't have been ...

The overhauled browser is more compatible with today's websites. It also gives more power to Google's vision for the web. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Google Chrome remains the king of the web browsers, with around 65% share of the desktop browser market as of December 2024. Microsoft’s Edge browser, which uses the Chromium open-source engine, is in ...

Thanks to its new Chromium underpinnings, Microsoft's new Edge browser can now handle Chrome extensions on Windows 10 and MacOS. Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit ...