@Loverock Davidson
No "software system" that is in use day to day is 100% secure. While your question is valid it seems a bit "out of scope" with respect to Ed's blog posting which focused on JavaScript performance & HTML5 standards. Anyway, I'm just making a general comment here. Nothing more.
Since you brought up the topic of security, the #1 reason people have had their systems breached (in the past) is because they run with administrative rights - this is particularly nefarious on Windows XP. Unfortunately XP doesn't ship with the tools to mitigate this problem and your average lay person operates with an "ignorance is bliss" demeanor.
While Vista and Win7 aren't immune they severely cut down the severity of how vulnerable people are. Beyond that I encourage people to use Microsoft's Security Essentials:
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
It's free and after using AVG for years based on various things I had read, I switched. It was this article in particular that made me a convert:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/microsoft-mse-safe-from-windows-kernel-hook-attack.ars
I might add I'm not an IE fan. I haven't used IE since 2002 (I started using the Mozilla suite that year before "Firefox" was ever packaged). Nowadays I do most of my browsing with Firefox on Windows 7 but I do use Chrome as well. I also use a LINUX VM regularly and use Chrome exclusively there.
-M
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