When Opera GX launched for mobile devices, it promised lightning-fast internet browsing and loading speeds. Opera delivered on its promise to an extent, but that doesn’t mean you may’t tweak your Android devices or the Opera GX app to make it even faster.
Let’s take a look at the best ways to speed up Opera GX on Android.
Enable the Fast Action Button
The Fast Action Button (commonly known as FAB) is an alternate and intuitive way to control and navigate through Opera. It allows you to initiate new searches, launch tabs, browse web content, and activate voice search functionality. Here’s how to enable the Fast Action Button:
Using the FAB may take a bit of time to get used to. However, once you get the hang of it, you’ll notice that it’s a much faster way of browsing the internet compared to the traditional method.
Close All Opened Opera GX Tabs
Unless you specifically close a tab before exiting Opera GX, it’ll remain open in the background, albeit with a lower priority when it comes to resource usage. However, open tabs cause Opera GX to use up more RAM, use up more of your Android phone’s CPU, and increase battery consumption.
Here’s how you can close all opened tabs in Opera GX:
Enable Top Sites in Opera GX
Faster browsing isn’t just about making Opera GX operate faster. It’s also about setting it up in such a way that you can work faster while using it.
For example, instead of having to manually type in the URL of your favorite website in the search bar every time, you can have them all displayed on the Opera GX home screen, allowing you easy access with just one finger tap.
Opera GX will then fill out the list of Top sites with the websites you visit most frequently. Unfortunately, there’s no way to manually edit the list of Top sites in Opera GX.
Add Websites to Your Favorites List
This solution should be seen as an alternative to the one listed above. Websites added to your list of Favorites will appear right under the list of Top sites. However, you have complete control over what websites you can add to the list.
Here’s how to add a website to your list of Favorites in Opera GX:
To reduce screen clutter, we recommend disabling theTop sitesfeature. Just stick to havingFavoriteson your homepage.
Disable GX Corner
Opera GX has afeature that gamers lovecalled the GX Corner that acts as a news feed of all things gaming-related, from freebies to exclusive deals. However, since this news feed is updated in real-time, it can cause Opera GX to increase RAM usage and therefore have a negative impact on its performance.
GX Corner is enabled by default, so here’s how to disable it:
Whenever you visit a website that features ads, pop-ups, and other similar features, your Android device will use extra resources (including RAM and internet data) to load them. This goes double whenever you’re visiting websites that may use your device’s resources for cryptocurrency mining.
Fortunately, just like the full Opera browser, Opera GX for Android has severalfeatures that can make browsing more efficient:
Not only will your web pages load much faster, but you’ll now have fewer on-screen elements that can distract you. This will help further improve your browsing efficiency and workflow.
Block Cookies
Enablingcookies on a websitecan have its benefits, such as allowing faster authentication. However, for the most part, cookies can affect Opera GX’s browsing speeds. This will be a two-part solution that will show you how to delete all cookies in Opera GX, and how to block all future cookies as well:
All the currently-stored cookies will now be deleted and Opera GX will stop accepting cookies in future browsing sessions.
Android Tips to Speed Up Opera GX
As well as the changes you can make within Opera GX, there are also a few settings you can tweak in Android to make the browser faster.
Update Opera GX
Each new update brought to Opera GX is meant to optimize the software, with performance enhancements taking top priority. These enhancements effectively help speed up web page loading times, and responsiveness. Not only that, but updates can also improve resource management features, like when dealing with media content.
Thus, go to Google Play, and update Opera GX to the latest version just as you wouldupdate any other Android app.
Free Up Your Android’s RAM
Freeing up your Android’s RAM will help speed up any app running on it, not just the web browsers. You’re effectively giving Opera GX a bigger share of your phone’s RAM. This, in turn, means faster multitasking, reduced page loading, and reloading, improved tab management (especially when there are a lot of opened tabs), faster script execution, quicker caching, etc.
Each Android device features different ways of disabling background apps to free up RAM. So, use the method that’s appropriate for your device tofree up all the available RAM, and then start using Opera GX.
Periodically Clear Opera GX’s App Cache
Web browsers benefit from clearing the cache more than any other type of app. They tend to store temporary data and assets in their cache to speed up their operation, but the cache can become cluttered with useless or outdated data. This not only slows down Opera GX’s browsing speeds, but it can even lead to conflicts or even errors.
Clearing the cacheregularly allows Opera GX to start with a clean slate, reducing loading times. Normally, this solution comes with the drawback of having to input all of your login info again on all the websites you visited. Fortunately enough, this isn’t something you have to worry about when using Opera GX, thanks to the Flow feature which saves all your data.
As with the previous method, each Android device has a different interface, so follow that works for you to free up Opera GX’s app cache.
Browse Faster and More Efficiently With Opera GX With Just a Few Tweaks
By following these steps, you should be able to enjoy much faster loading speeds, smaller resource consumption, and an overall faster browsing experience.
As for those of you who haven’t tried Opera GX on Android yet, know that it’s exactly like its PC counterpart; the ultimate web browser for gamers!
