Browser appearance

By default, the side panel appears when you hover your mouse cursor over the left border of the browser window. Use side panel 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. In the Side panel section, enable the Show side panel option.

Pin side panel

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

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

   • pinned on all pages. The panel will be displayed on each tab.
   • pinned in new tab. The side panel will appear when you open a new tab.

You can use the following media as a background:

• Photos from the Background gallery on your computer or from any website.
• Videos or dynamic selections of photos 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.

1. Open a new tab.
2. Under the Tableau on the right, click  → Upload 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. Under the Tableau on the right, click and turn off Background animation.

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. Open 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 slows down the Yandex Browser beta version:

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. Under the Tableau to the right, click and turn on 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. 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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