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I'm not going to touch the typical FOSS arguments because that is going to lead down a rabbit hole we've both been down about a thousand times I'm sure.

That said, while Safari is a nice browser, it's horribly insecure. Just looking at Pwn2Own, it gets killed straight off every year, and those involved usually remark about how trivial it is.

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My impression is that Pwn2Own skews hard towards Safari for two reasons: the Air that's normally a prize is more desireable than the random cruddy Windows laptop, and Flash is a much softer security target than Safari itself, so that's usually what gets exploited.

You're right. I said I use it because I really don't care that much about security, and find it better suited to my needs. But if I did care about security, I certainly wouldn't run Chrome either (for the reasons stated); I'd use Webkit or Chromium, or plain old lynx like our friend Richard.

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