diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 736ad34..08cff6f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+* Make test for `escapeHTML`/`unescapeHTML` more strict. (Chrome 1.x escapes "<" and "&" with `innerHTML`, but not ">") (kangax)
+
 * Remove another sniffing from one of DOM tests. Fixes last IE8 failure. (kangax)
 
 * `Element.extend` now takes care of IE8 bug when HTMLAppletElement and HTMLObjectElement objects do not inherit from `Element.prototype`. (kangax)
diff --git a/src/lang/string.js b/src/lang/string.js
index 90c2ea6..6d715c1 100644
--- a/src/lang/string.js
+++ b/src/lang/string.js
@@ -444,13 +444,13 @@ Object.extend(String.prototype.escapeHTML, {
 
 String.prototype.escapeHTML.div.appendChild(String.prototype.escapeHTML.text);
 
-if ('<\n'.escapeHTML() !== '&lt;\n') {
+if ('<\n>'.escapeHTML() !== '&lt;\n&gt;') {
   String.prototype.escapeHTML = function() {
     return this.replace(/&/g,'&amp;').replace(/</g,'&lt;').replace(/>/g,'&gt;');
   }
 }
 
-if ('&lt;\n'.unescapeHTML() !== '<\n') {
+if ('&lt;\n&gt;'.unescapeHTML() !== '<\n>') {
   String.prototype.unescapeHTML = function() {
     return this.stripTags().replace(/&lt;/g,'<').replace(/&gt;/g,'>').replace(/&amp;/g,'&');
   }