Google looks set for Chrome 86 to slash how much battery life the browser consumes. It's already experimenting with blocking unruly ads that drain battery life and jam up networks and now it is ...

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 ...

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 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, ...