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I'd say that it obviously is not safer than Firefox (or any other decent web browser), simply because it's still beta software, i.e. is going through a testing process. Also, Firefox and other browsers (Opera, Safari, Konqueror etc) have been around for quite a few years, whereas Chrome only for a few weeks. It is inevitable that it'll have some security issues during its "baby steps". However, Chrome uses a powerful web-engine, it's a very ambitious project of a huge web corp. and it has a touch of open source magic too.

However, now that Google chrome has been around for a bit (now on version 4.1 08/04/2010), the browser has proved itself to be more secure than other competing browser such as Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's internet explore and apples safari. At the pwn2own competition, which sees computer security experts hacking various types of software for a prise, google chrome was, for the second time in a row, the last man standing. The competitors managed to execute arbitrary code by exploiting bugs in IE, firefox and safari, but not google chrome. This wasn't due to chrome having no bugs, in fact several of the competitors managed to identify a bug's in chrome, however, due to the sandbox feature which chrome employs, no one was able to exploit them.

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