> 
> **Possible Duplicate:**  
> 
> [Running V8 Javascript Engine Standalone](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1802478/running-v8-javascript-engine-standalone) 
> 
> 
> 

I want to try a standalone JavaScript interpreter, rather than executing in Firefox all the time. I did find spidermonkey by googling, which could be installed on ubuntu, but is there a way to use Google's v8 as a standalone interpreter?