{"id":283031,"date":"2026-06-27T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/i-switched-to-opera-and-my-android-phone-finally-stopped-feeling-sluggish\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:45:06","slug":"i-switched-to-opera-and-my-android-phone-finally-stopped-feeling-sluggish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/i-switched-to-opera-and-my-android-phone-finally-stopped-feeling-sluggish\/","title":{"rendered":"I switched to Opera and my Android phone finally stopped feeling sluggish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-switched-to-opera-and-my-android-phone-finally-stopped-feeling-sluggish\/\">I switched to Opera and my Android phone finally stopped feeling sluggish<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-switched-to-opera-and-my-android-phone-finally-stopped-feeling-sluggish\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-switched-to-opera-and-my-android-phone-finally-stopped-feeling-sluggish\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-27 16:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At some point, I stopped blaming the websites and started looking at my phone with suspicion. Pages took just long enough to become interactive for me to notice; app switching had picked up a faint sluggishness I could never quite pin down, and tabs felt heavier than they had any right to be. I had started filing all of that under the usual explanation for an aging Samsung Galaxy S10+, assuming several years of daily use had simply caught up with it.<\/p>\n<p>Then I switched from Chrome to Opera as my daily browser, mostly out of curiosity, and the difference crept up on me over a few weeks. The phone had not suddenly become old overnight \u2014 I had just been using one of its most demanding everyday apps as if it were harmless background furniture.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI found an Android browser that runs Chrome extensions \u2014 and I don\u2019t get why it\u2019s not popular<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">It\u2019s strange seeing my favorite extensions running on mobile.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"chrome-was-not-broken-but-it-was-doing-a-lot\">\n                        Chrome was not broken, but it was doing a lot<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"it-had-become-one-of-my-heaviest-everyday-apps\">\n            It&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-switched-to-opera-and-my-android-phone-finally-stopped-feeling-sluggish\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I switched to Opera and my Android phone finally stopped feeling sluggish https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-switched-to-opera-and-my-android-phone-finally-stopped-feeling-sluggish\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/opera-browser-running-across-desktop-and-mobile-devices.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-283031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283033,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283031\/revisions\/283033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}