Microsoft is adding JavaScript performance improvements to the Chakra engine behind the Edge web browser, which will be available for all Windows 10 users as part of the upcoming Anniversary Update.

Learn how to enable or disable JavaScript In Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Opera browser on your Windows 11/10 computer. Browsing speed will improve, but you will lose out on functionalities.

Microsoft says that the JavaScript performance for its new Microsoft Edge web browser is already beating Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox in two benchmark tests.

WebUI 2.0 is a new, markup-first architecture designed to simplify the Edge source code structure, minimizing the amount of JavaScript code running during the UI initialization path.

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

Microsoft has released the JavaScript code for its new Edge browser for Windows 10, and is even planning to port it to Linux.

Microsoft says it will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month.rn ...