The Tor Project warned users yesterday about a major bug in its browser that may execute JavaScript code on sites that users have specifically blocked JavaScript from running. Tor developers said ...

Hostile code can be written in any language and JavaScript is no exception, whether it’s run in a Node.js instance or in a web browser. Often, the only way to determine how a piece of JavaScript ...

To protect yourself, it is critically important to have an easy method of selecting which sites should be allowed to run JavaScript in the browser. It is true that selectively allowing JavaScript ...

Google launched its Chrome Experiments site to tout what can be done with high-performance JavaScript and to promote its browser. While Chrome generally runs sites' applications with aplomb ...

The benchmark, called Octane, has been widely used since 2012 by developers trying to assess how well a browser runs JavaScript, a core component of the web. But as browsers got better and better ...

While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a ... into byte code so then when it is called, it will run very quickly. “Once we switch to compiled code, the code ...

JavaScript is a programming language that can run inside nearly all modern web browsers. In the early days of the web, the language was used to create simple scripts that did handy things ...

We all remember Silverlight, Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash. The remnant of an ambitious plan to have .Net code running everywhere, it mixed the familiar C# and XAML with browsers.

It is invoked by JavaScript whenever a helping hand is needed ... With WebAssembly, you can run Java in the browser without installing a Mozilla plugin or fighting with a Java applet. All you need to ...