Microsoft open sources ChakraCore, Windows 10's Edge web browser JavaScript engine. More amazing still, Microsoft will port it to Ubuntu Linux.

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 ...

Microsoft announced it will open source the JavaScript engine for the new Edge web browser released with Windows 10.

Microsoft is making its Chakra JavaScript engine (which powers its Edge browser and many other products) open source. By doing so, the company hopes to develop deeper relations with the developer ...

Compared to its previous browser, IE 11, in the Jet Stream benchmark, Microsoft Edge is allegedly more than 1.6 times faster and also 2.25 times faster in the Octane 2.0 test.

One of the biggest features promised for Microsoft's new Edge browser was support for extensions written in HTML and JavaScript. Google developed an API for such extensions for Chrome, and it is ...