Question About Chrome

Hello. I’ve been wanting to use Chrome for a while because it is allegedly much faster than Firefox. However, it has always seemed slow to me compared to Firefox. Especially for Facebook games, which I usually play, Chrome loads them very slowly. I was looking in Chrome’s options to find some setting to tweak to make it faster, and I was wondering if the DNS prefetching should be turned off, since I have a custom HOSTS file. I am also wondering if you have any other ideas how to speed Chrome up, or Flash in general.


Hopefully, a Chrome user can help you soon.


You do know that the facebook game’s are loaded with virus’s, there are artical’s about it on the malwarebytes forum.

Facebook Games are the quickest way to get your system infected with malware :wink:

It isn’t just facebook games that are a potential risk, apparently 40& of all facebook status reports (or whatever they are called) contain links and of those 10% are either spam or malicious. I can’t recall the reference for this, but there was a topic in the forums giving a link to this info.

Facebook and social networking sites in general are a huge spam/scam/malware target due the the very large user base, so you have to have your wits about you and your defences up.

Lol, really? Some of the games have millions of users a month? You’re telling me all of those are bad? From what I’ve read, you have to be really careless to get infected from Facebook. I have yet to find any malicious links or areas on Facebook.

I don’t see how games that millions of people play a day are bad, maybe new games that are bad and quickly removed, but not popular games like Farmville and stuff. As far as the status reports, I think I see what you mean, as many of my sister’s are that she likes some quote, which has a link to another site, and uses a URL shortener. She says she doesn’t care if it’s dangerous, and I told her not to come crying to me if her computer gets infected again, but I would probably help because she is my sister.

It isn’t so much the games that millions play every day, but the new introductions or supposed new games links just to get you interested and clicking the link.

The problem being many of the unwary may have clicked on the malicious link well before the game link is removed.

Yeah that makes sense. I only go to games that have at least 500K monthly users. I never click on ads games show me.