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Google and Microsoft, which now both contribute to the Chromium project, apparently share concerns about the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Microsoft's Edge ...

In an effort to keep Firefox competitive with commercial browsers and handle the ever-heavier burden that interactive webpages put on browsers’ scripting engines, Mozilla is working on a new ...

According to Microsoft's vulnerability research team, the most common attacks on web browsers that exploit vulnerabilities are exploiting bugs around the Javascript engine. If you know that you are ...

Microsoft has announced that the Edge Vulnerability Research team is experimenting with a new feature dubbed "Super Duper Secure Mode" and designed to bring security improvements without significant ...

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

I'm getting confused by all the monkeys. SpiderMonkey is the "script engine". JagerMonkey is the current JIT for SpiderMonkey, and IonMonkey is an improvement over JagerMonkey. ??? The naming needs to ...