I presume that I can I take it from the lack of comment on the Firefox angle that there are no concerns that Firefox is inherently less secure than Chrome?
Really, the best way to protect yourself is to use an obscure OS, or a separate machine for web browsing. Sounds paranoid, but the web is THE main attack vector these days.
The ultimate security by obscurity
Of course, this is security by obscurity, an attacker could adjust the malware for such cases.
HN is about the only site that I frequent that is usable without JS.
The progressive enhancement ship has sailed into abyss.
Browsers have zero-days sometimes; this is a valid question worth asking, but for now I wouldn't tell anyone to ditch Firefox over this, any more than I would tell someone to ditch MacOS over this.