Having moved from Virgin Media nearly 18 months ago now, I have had a fair amount of time to make my decision about Sky's brand new TV service - Sky Q. I must admit, our 18 months with the service has not been without fault, but overall I do believe that the money we have spent with Sky has been better spent than with Virgin Media's TiVo service. Why did I move provider in the first place? We were with Virgin Media before moving across to Sky Q, and we were beginning to get very unhappy with the service, the TiVo box was sluggishly slow, the internet not much better. We were left dumped with the first superhub and the first version of the TiVo box. Having had these for a few years they were slow and needed replacing, and we had asked Virgin to replace these many times but they were refusing - claiming that it still worked and therefore why should they send us out the newer services. They eventually agreed that we were in fact eligible to have the newer boxes; but at our e...
So recently I have been using my PC more (unusual for me as I'm a mac person myself, but I decided to give it a go as I had it on my desk) and discovered the sheer amount of resources that Chrome uses up and hogs all too itself. The question which I began to ask too myself was, Why is chrome using all of these resources? And is there an alternative which I could use which would be less intensive yet still provide a useable and pleasant interface and experience. There aren't exactly a huge amount of choices when it comes to browser on Windows (FYI: On mac I use Safari mainly, it does everything I want fast and I can't find too many faults.); I mean what are the options? You've got Edge - just LOL, Firefox - Meh, Chrome - resource intensive and then the final one that I found. Opera. And so far, it ticks all of the boxes. It must be a pain to convert to a new browser after using the same one for years? Nope, In fact its surprisingly easy. Included in the download f...