Vendors
Explore the role of major browser vendors in shaping web security and standards. Understand how browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge influence security features such as SameSite cookies, and why adapting your web app security strategy across different browsers is essential. Learn about vendor collaboration, browser vulnerabilities, bug bounty programs, and the importance of supporting current browser versions to protect users effectively.
The four most popular browsers belong to different vendors:
- Chrome by Google
- Firefox by Mozilla
- Safari by Apple
- Edge by Microsoft
Besides battling each other to increase their market penetration, vendors engage with each other in order to improve the web standards, a sort of minimum requirements for browsers.
Web standards
The W3C is the body behind the development of web standards, but it’s not unusual for browsers to develop their own features that eventually make it as web standards, security is no exception to that.
In 2016, for example, Chrome 51 introduced SameSite cookies, a feature that would allow web applications to get rid of a particular type of vulnerability known as CSRF (more on this later). Other vendors ...