I didn't mention antivirus quality and don't care much about the topic nowadays. Browsers do a lot of things web developers and browser developers want, that's

I didn't mention antivirus quality and don't care much about the topic nowadays. Browsers do a lot of things web developers and browser developers want, that's why they transformed into a frankenstein OS that at this point is probably impossible to secure. I disagree that they do "a lot" of things users want. They can show web sites, more or less like 16 years ago except with more ads, animations, tracking. They like to pretend that websites are apps, but that always fails sooner or later. My point was: browsers are probably the number one attack vector today. It doesn't matter that it costs a lot or that antiviruses are crap at security. Very few are likely going to get compromised through their antivirus. A whole lot will be compromised through their browsers, irrespective of the existence of antivirus. The push to web apps, insecure core OS elements and browsers guarantee this. P.S: I don't use Chrome, so the fact that it's above avarage at security leaves me cold. I get it that it perhaps offers better protection than Firefox, but what's the point of that if everything one does is uploaded to Google anyway? From that point of view, the whole discussion is quite repugnant. Google worrying that others will install spyware on the systems that they spy on through Chrome, analytics, docs, gmail, etc.