Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime is a runtime environment used by many third-party applications to render web content, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, within their native desktop applications ...

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.

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.