NSS Labs Browser Security Test Report

NSS Labs has published a report of a test they made to compare how different browsers managed against socially-engineered malware.

Tested browsers were:
-Apple Safari 5
-Google Chrome 12
-Windows Internet Explorer 9
-Mozilla Firefox 4
-Opera 11

Internet Explorer 9 became the winner. It was able to stop 96 percent of malicious links via its SmartScreen URL Reputation feature and in addition 3.2 percent when its Application Reputation feature was turned on. The second place was taken by Chrome 12 (13.2%). Apple Safari 5 and Firefox 4 shared third place with percent of 7.6. Opera 11 caught 6.1 percent of samples.

The full report (in PDF format) can be viewed here.