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"Sergey: There is also the security aspect. In a recent hacker competition, Chrome was the only one to escape unscathed in terms of security vulnerabilities. And more stable."

When, oh when will people learn that touting the security of a product by how well it did in hacking competitions is not a measure of how secure it is?



There is no single measure of security. The hacking competition mentioned is a perfectly valid data point though.


Nothing wrong with comparing against a single benchmark, regardless of how good/bad the benchmark itself is. On the other hand, how would you have gone about measuring the security of browsers in a meaningful way?




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