The results :

Internet Explorer 8 achieved an overall block rate of 83% during our extended testing,
Firefox 3 achieved an overall block rate of 80% during our extended testing.
Opera 10 Beta achieved an overall block rate of 54% during our extended testing. NOTE: It appeared that Opera experienced operational issues during the latter part of testing which dragged down Opera 10’s effectiveness. Prior to those issues, Opera 10 was comparable with Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.
Chrome 2 achieved an overall block rate of 26% during our extended testing.
Safari 4 achieved an overall block rate of 2% during our extended testing.

Some people are still stuck at Microsoft’s Blaster’s age of insecurity, but facts speak for it. If you use Firefox, Safari and Chrome, you might have noticed the statusbar showing you the SafeBrowsing feeds, and in this test Google lost to Firefox to a great deal, nevermind Apple. What does that mean? Google owned the SafeBrowsing but uses it badly than the 3rd parties, and Apple certainly doesn’t know how to use it correctly, yielding afterall a 2% ( sometimes a 0%, too, wow =] check the report. ). Afterall, they are the same feed, it can’t be a biased feed right?

Great that Firefox are statistically tied with IE, since it’s with IE the two of the most prevalent browsers. It’s good news for the consumers.

Food for thought. So how about China? A lot of people uses Firefox and IE, despite a few uses local flavours. The sources listed includes Sunbelt, Telus and Mailshell. Sunbelt should not be a new name in China, but a Baidu search yields little info for the latter two. I guess it’s fair to assume the rate of all is worse in China, so how protected are citizens browsing China domains?