Browser background

You can use the following types of media as a background:

• Photos from the Background gallery on your computer or from another site
• Videos or a dynamic selection of photos from the Background gallery.

To select a browser background:

• From the Gallery
• From your computer
• From any website

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

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

• For one album. Put together a selection in the Background gallery and click Alternate these backgrounds.
• For all albums. In the Background gallery, click Alternate in the All backgrounds section.

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

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

1. Go to the page with the image you want.
2. Open the context menu and select Set as Yandex.Browser background.

Stopping or starting

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

1. Open a new tab.
2. Under Tableau on the right, click  and disable the Background animation.

Play animations 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. In the Appearance section, uncheck the Disable background animation when battery is low option.

Playback in high resolution

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

1. Tap  → Settings.
2. In the Appearance settings, uncheck the Show animated backgrounds in new tabs in high resolution option.

Background animation may not work due to the following:

Animation is paused

1. Open a new tab.
2. Under Tableau to the right, click  and enable the Background animation option.

The video-card driver is outdated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. Go to the Video adapters section. A list of video cards appears.
3. Right-click on 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. At the bottom of the Settings page, click Show advanced settings.
3. Go to the System section. If the Use hardware acceleration if possible option is enabled, disable it. If the Use hardware acceleration if possible option is disabled, enable it.
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 one that was blocking it.
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.

Yandex.Browser does not offer different themes. Themes uploaded from the Chrome Web Store are not compatible with Yandex.Browser. You can, however, customize your browser background to suit your taste by selecting from a Gallery of photos or videos or uploading your own image as a background.