Hi bob3160,
That can be a long time. GoogleChrome does not have that full functionality and blocked the use of certain functionality to extension developers because that would interfere with their main basis of income, which is user tracking to serve you with ads. The GoogleChrome browser could be viewed upon as one big user keylogger,
polonus
Can't quite agree with you considering that it's considered safer than IE and Firefox. 
it is safer than IE, not too difficult but are we talking malware breaking into the browser or common spyware here
concerning malware, yeah, according to many converging analysis found in misc articles, it seems rather safe (especially due to its sandboxing abilities)...but the thing is also that whatever extension you add to Chrome,
there's no way yet to prevent massive tracking from ad servers when using Chrome, because as has been mentioned above, Google has blocked the API to prevent external devs from implementing real ad blockers or javascript control extensions. DoubleClick won't break your system that's right...but I hate it, even running in the background while pseudo ad blocking extensions are just hiding the ads with so much crap traffic running in the background (run fiddler and see for yourself; then compare to ABP in FF). Same for javascript, Chrome will let you allow all or nothing. And you got to allow something, at least the main site, otherwise links won't work etc...the result is that you are forced to allow everything. Hey ads can be blocked too with NoScript in Firefox, ad servers being javascript happy...and Google doesn't want that either.
Remains the hosts file solution...
This being said one must be careful not to forget that without ads there's no free internet, and no Google either btw...rejecting ads the way we do (and I belong to that "we") can have a boomerang effect >>> web sites with paid access, that's a danger that shouldn't be ignored.
