Google has launched Chrome 61 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Additions in this release include JavaScript modules and WebUSB support, among other developer features. You can update to the latest ...

Google has launched a site called Chrome Experiments designed to show off what fast JavaScript can enable and to encourage adoption of the browser.

As a result, Google says JavaScript applications remain responsive and performance gets a boost. This is all handled by V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine. Here’s how it works.

Navigate to chrome://inspect to enable, then perform desired actions in another tab. Switch back to the same chrome://inspect tab to view any printed JavaScript console logs.

According to Google, the performance of the browser's V8 JavaScript engine has increased by over 150 percent since the original version of Chrome was released.

After a couple of minutes spent idle, Chrome 45's JavaScript memory is about 55 percent of Chrome 43's. That's a substantial savings.

A team of academics has created a Chrome extension that can block side-channel attacks that use JavaScript code to leak data from a computer's RAM or CPU.

In all, Chrome 91 is now up to 23% faster and saves 17 years of user CPU time every day with these JavaScript updates. Add 9to5Google to your Google News feed.

Search giant Google in its new Chrome browser has souped up JavaScript, calling it V8. Although Google Chrome's V8 sports neither fuel injection nor dual-overhead cams, it does have full ...