I learned this the hard way. Got a drive-by virus infection on Firefox a couple of years ago. I clicked on a link from a google search, and that website complet

I learned this the hard way. Got a drive-by virus infection on Firefox a couple of years ago. I clicked on a link from a google search, and that website completely infected my machine, .exes started running. I thought it was a browser popup at first. It was not. Scary stuff. With Chrome, I feel much safer, and no such thing has happened again. To you, the reader, this might just be an anecdote. But to me it was very frustrating and time-consuming. These days, I always secure my browser properly, allowing only minimal amounts of cross-site requests, JavaScript and plugins.