Tableau
What is the Tableau?
When you open a new tab or click in the SmartBox , you see the Tableau — a panel with widgets of your most frequently visited websites. By default, the Tableau has widgets for some Yandex services.
To navigate to a site, click its widget (it displays the logo and, if the widget opens a page different from the home page, the page name).
- on Windows: Ctrl + T followed by Alt + 1, 2...,
- on macOS: ⌘ + T followed by Ctrl + 1, 2...,
where 1, 2... are the widget numbers on the Tableau (counting left-to-right and top-to-bottom).
You can manually configure the set and sequence of widgets on the Tableau.

Automatic selection of sites for the Tableau
During the installation process, the browser selects the sites for the Tableau based on the history imported from other browsers: the sites you've visited most often are added to the Tableau. If you haven't imported the history during installation, the Tableau displays the default set of sites.
Yandex Browser periodically updates Tableau widgets that you have not pinned. It adds the sites that you most often search for in the SmartBox or open from the Tableau.
Sites that have been manually removed from the Tableau will no longer be added to it automatically. To put a site like this back on the Tableau, add it yourself.
Add widgets to the Tableau
- Open the Tableau.
- Under the Tableau, click.
- Enter a site that you want to add to a Tableau widget. You can select a site from the lists of Popular or Recently visited sites, or enter an address manually.

Edit widgets
Switch to the edit mode to manage the Tableau content.
- For a single widget: click and hold it on Tableau, or hover over the widget and click the
icon on it.
- For all widgets: click Customize Layout under the Tableau.
In edit mode, you can:

Additional editing features | |
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Change the site a widget links to | Click ![]() |
Add the site name to a widget | Click ![]() |
Edit the site name on a widget | Click ![]() |
Additional editing features | |
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Change the site a widget links to | Click ![]() |
Add the site name to a widget | Click ![]() |
Edit the site name on a widget | Click ![]() |
Widget folders on the Tableau
You can group widgets into folders. For example, widgets linking to Yandex services are grouped into a single folder by default.

- Create a widget folder
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- Open the Tableau.
- Under the Tableau, click.
- Click Add and specify the site.Note. Repeat the action for all sites whose widgets you want to add to the folder.
- Tap
.
- Delete a widget folder
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- Open the Tableau.
- Hover the mouse cursor over a folder.
- In the upper-right corner of the folder, click
.
Sync the Tableau
Your Tableau is generated separately for each of your devices (since your favorite sites may differ on each of your devices). However, the data on your Tableausynch between devices, so you can view the widgets pinned to the Tableau on any of them:
- In the SmartBox , enter browser://devices-tabs/.
- Select the folder with the device name. Sites pinned to the Tableau are located in the upper part of the list that opens.

- Disable Tableau syncing.
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- Click .
- Disable the Tableau option.
That way the sites that are pinned to your Tableau will not display on your Other devices tab.
- Restore the Tableau
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If you use Yandex Browser on multiple computers and syncing is enabled, different Tableaus are saved in the cloud. When reinstalling Yandex Browser, it will restore the previous version of your Tableau or offer one available.
To view saved versions and restore the one you want:
- Click .
- Select the desired version of the Tableau.
Widgets disappear from the Tableau
Widgets displayed by the Tableau change because the widget list is formed automatically based on your most frequently visited pages.
To make a widget stay in the same place, you can pin it:
- Open the Tableau.
- Under the Tableau, click Customize layout.
- Pin the widget by clicking the
icon. If the “lock” icon is closed
, the widget has already been pinned.
- Click Finish.
Where are the links that were above the Tableau?
Previously, there was a panel above the Tableau containing the links Downloads, Recently closed, Extensions and Other devices. The interface has changed.


Keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures for managing the Tableau
Hold down the right mouse button to perform gestures. Then release the button after you complete the gesture.
Keyboard shortcuts | |
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Open Tableau | Ctrl + T |
Go to a site after opening Tableau | Alt + 1, 2... |
Open the Tableau and put the mouse cursor in the SmartBox | Ctrl + L Alt + D F6 |
Mouse gestures | |
Open the Tableau and put the mouse cursor in the SmartBox | |
Keyboard shortcuts | |
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Open Tableau | Ctrl + T |
Go to a site after opening Tableau | Alt + 1, 2... |
Open the Tableau and put the mouse cursor in the SmartBox | Ctrl + L Alt + D F6 |
Mouse gestures | |
Open the Tableau and put the mouse cursor in the SmartBox | |
Keyboard shortcuts | |
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Open Tableau | ⌘ + T |
Go to a site after opening Tableau | ⌘ + 1, 2... |
Mouse gestures | |
Open the Tableau and put the mouse cursor in the SmartBox | |
Keyboard shortcuts | |
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Open Tableau | ⌘ + T |
Go to a site after opening Tableau | ⌘ + 1, 2... |
Mouse gestures | |
Open the Tableau and put the mouse cursor in the SmartBox | |