[ocdtrekkie]

While I'm not sure how effective they are on OS X, I have a hard time agreeing with any suggestion that Chrome is anything but the worst possible option for browser security right now. Chrome's official extension store is full of malware which collect not just your browsing data, but the contents of every page you view, and Google has shown almost zero interest in policing it. And a large percentage of malicious websites are designed to get users to install these malicious extensions.

Chrome may be relatively decent at preventing a webpage from compromising your OS, but in the modern era, a compromised browser is as bad or worse anyways, since that's where most of your sensitive activity goes.

While many HN readers will know to avoid the perils of this crud, I don't feel Chrome can be recommended over IE6 to the wider Internet while this remains so commonplace. Safe use of Chrome requires constant vigilance.

In light of Chrome's issues, I feel like a claim that switching to Chrome is important for security to require an exceptional evidence of vulnerability in the other browser.