Chrome Changes It’s Sparkplug And It’s V8 Gets A Speed Boost
Microsoft has given up on trying to align it's Chakra and moved to Alphabet's V8 engine for javascript on Chredge but Chrome will have a speed boost thanks to a change in…
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Chrome To Start Limiting Background JavaScript Timer Wake Ups
Chrome's love of devouring available RAM is well known and the subject of more than a few internet jokes. There are a variety of reasons for this immense appetite and today we…
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Firefox 52 Adds WebAssembly
Mozilla’s latest browser version, Firefox 52, was just released to the public on Tuesday. I wasn’t planning on putting up a post about it, but I...
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You were to bring balance to the ads, not leave us in darkness HTML5
Upsetting news today from GeoEdge, not only is HTML5 not going to prevent drive by infections from ads but it also turns out that Flash was nowhere near as responsible for these…
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Windows 95 in a Web Browser
This one is quite interesting. We've seen DOSBox cross-compiled into JavaScript using emscripten before. For instance, The Internet Archive has been publishing a huge catalog of DOS-era games on their site, including…
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Almost NoScript Exploits Whitelist Vulnerabilities
I do not really believe in disabling JavaScript, although the ability to control or halt execution would be nice, but you can use an extension to remove it entirely if you want.…
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Internet Archive Adds Thousands of In-Browser DOS Games
Well would you look at that. Archive.org has been working hard to preserve as much art and expression as possible, including some things that you would think are blocked by copyright holders.…
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HTML5 Finally Released as W3C Recommendation
Recently, the W3C has officially recommended the whole HTML5 standard as a specification for browser vendors and other interested parties. It is final. It is complete. Future work will now be…
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Cloth simulations in Javascript, optimized for asm.js
Web browsers are getting really good at being general-purpose application platforms. You can write most applications in web standards if you are willing to give up some level of performance for the gained…
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Javascript + Adobe; you got your exploit in my vulnerability …
What could possibly go wrong by combining two of malwares most favourite security holes into one? With FoxIt recently sprouting leaks and Adobe's continual duct taping of it's Reader, reading PDFs online…
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Firefox versus Chrome; C++ versus JavaScript … pouring salt on the browser war
The Browser War is about to heat up again as Google Chrome's native client is released at the same time that Intel is releasing updates to JavaScript to allow...
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