Bleeping Computer

Chrome Extension Protects Against JavaScript-Based CPU Side-Channel Attacks

A team of academics has created a Chrome extension that can block side-channel attacks that use JavaScript code to leak data from a computer's RAM or CPU. The extension's name is Chrome Zero and is ...
PC World

Online Tool Converts JavaScript Bookmarklets into Chrome Extensions

Google Chrome users can now turn JavaScript bookmarklets into Chrome extensions in just a few clicks thanks to a new tool created by U.K.-based Web developer Peter Legierski. The process is not as ...
CCM

Disable JavaScript Chrome: extension, Android, dev tools

How to use a Chrome extension to disable JavaScript? An extension that allows you to disable JavaScript is the appropriately named: Disabled JavaScript. All you need to do is download the extension ...
Bleeping Computer

Chrome Extension Embeds In-Browser Monero Miner That Drains Your CPU

The authors of SafeBrowse, a Chrome extension with more than 140,000 users, have embedded a JavaScript library in the extension's code that mines for the Monero cryptocurrency using users' computers ...
The Next Web

Google speeds up Chrome by compiling JavaScript in the background

Google today revealed a tweak it has made in the latest Chrome beta to further boost performance: concurrent compilation, which offloads a large part of the optimizing compilation phase to a ...
ZDNet

Chrome JavaScript timer throttling: Google's tests show it saves up to 2 hours' battery life

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 ...