Risk: Informational
Google has posted a handbook for Web developers that highlights the key security features and quirks of major Web browsers.
The document, dubbed the Browser Security Handbook, has three parts that tackle the security features in browsers and browser-specific issues that could lead to security weaknesses.
"Insufficient understanding of these often poorly-documented characteristics is a major contributing factor to the prevalence of several classes of security vulnerabilities," Michal Zalewski, a developer at Google, stated in the introduction to the handbook.
The handbook covers features of Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3, Apple Safari, the Opera browser and Google's Chrome and Android browsers.