Browser appearance and new tab view

By default, the side panel is pinned to the left border of the browser. Use sidebar to:

• open Yandex services in one click;
• view notifications;
• search on page;
• open your history and bookmarks;
• save your notes, ideas, and other important information in the browser;
• play or pause audio;
• launch Alice.

Enable side panel

1. Tap  → Settings.
2. Go to Interface.
3. Under Side panel, enable Show side panel on pages.

Pin side panel

If you want the side panel to be always displayed in the browser:

1. Tap  → Settings.
2. Go to Interface.
3. Under Side panel, enable Show side panel on pages and select the desired option:

   • Always. The panel is displayed on all tabs.
   • When hovering over left border. The panel appears when you hover your mouse cursor over the left border on open tabs. The panel is pinned on a new tab.
   • Without pinning. The panel appears only when you hover your cursor over the left border.

You can use the following media as a background:

• Photos from the Background gallery, your computer, or any website.
• Videos or dynamic photo collections from the Background gallery.

To select a browser background:

• From the Gallery
• From your computer

1. Open a new tab.
2. Click Backgrounds gallery under the Tableau to the right.
3. Select a photo or video from an album.
4. Click Use this background.

Note. You can configure your browser to randomly alternate images or videos from your Background gallery once a day.

• For one album. Select the desired album in the Backgrounds gallery and click Alternate these backgrounds.
• For all albums. In the Backgrounds gallery, click Alternate in the All backgrounds section.

Note. To make links and buttons on a new tab easy to read, a blackout filter is applied to all backgrounds downloaded from the computer. You cannot cancel this filter. If you want a brighter background, enhance the brightness of the original image.

1. Open a new tab.
2. Under the Tableau on the right, click  → Load from computer.
3. Select an image.
4. Click Open.

Restriction. You can only load .png or .jpg files as background images.

Start or stop animation

Animated backgrounds look great, but they can run down your battery. To avoid this:

1. Open a new tab.
2. Click the icon under the Tableau on the right.
3. On the background preview, click .

Animation when the battery is low

When your battery is low, animation turns off automatically. If you want to continue playing animation regardless of how low your battery is:

1. Tap  → Settings.
2. Click Tools.
3. In the Power saving mode section, disable the Disable video playing when battery is low option.

Playback in high resolution

Animations play back in high resolution by default. If this is slowing down Yandex Browser:

1. Tap  → Settings.
2. Go to Interface.
3. In the New tab section, disable the Use high-resolution animated background option.

Background animation doesn't work

Background animation may not work due to the following:

Animation is paused

1. Open a new tab.
2. Click the icon under the Tableau on the right.
3. On the background preview, click .

The video card driver is outdated

Update the driver for each video card that is installed on your computer:

1. Click Start → Dashboard → Device dispatcher.
2. Open Video adapters. A list of video cards appears.
3. Right-click the name of your video card.
4. In the context menu, select Update drivers.

Hardware acceleration is problematic

Try turning the hardware accelerator on or off:

1. Tap  → Settings.
2. Go to System.
3. Go to the Performance section. If the Use hardware acceleration if possible option is on, turn it off. If the Use hardware acceleration if possible option is off, turn it on.
4. Restart the browser to apply these changes.

An extension is blocking animation

1. Temporarily disable all extensions:  → Extensions.
2. If your animation re-appears, try going through your extensions one at a time to find the blocking one.
3. Disable the problematic extension. You may want to let the developers know about the problem.
4. Clear your cache so that the browser doesn't load a copy of the page that was rendered earlier and contains the blocked animation.

If these recommendations don't help, contact our support staff using the feedback form. Describe the situation in detail, and attach a screenshot if possible.

The background doesn't change on the Tableau page

Try deleting the File System folder in the browser profile directory and then check whether the problem persists. To open the browser profile directory:

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10

1. Open the file search field in Windows.
2. Copy

   [%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Yandex\YandexBrowser\User Data\Default\] (without the square brackets)

   and paste it into the file search box.

3. Press Enter.

Note. Microsoft Windows XP and Vista operating systems are not supported since April 2017.

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