Browser background
Change the browser background
You can use the following types of media as a background:
- Photos from the on your computer or from another site
- Videos or a dynamic selection of photos from the .
To select a browser background:
- Open a new tab.
- Click Background gallery under Tableau to the right.
- Select a photo or video from an album.
- Click Install background.
- 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.

- Open a new tab.
- Under Tableau on the right, click .
- Select the desired image.
- Click Open.

- Go to the page with the image you want.
- Open the context menu and select Set as Yandex.Browser background.
Background animation
- Stopping or starting
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Animated backgrounds look great, but they can run down your battery. To avoid this:
- Open a new tab.
- Under Tableau on the right, click
and disable the Background animation.
- Play animations when the battery is low
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When your battery is low, animation turns off automatically. If you want to continue playing animation regardless of how low your battery is:
- Tap .
- In the Appearance section, uncheck the Disable background animation when battery is low option.
- Playback in high resolution
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Animations playback in high resolution by default. If this is slowing down Yandex.Browser:
- Tap .
- In the Appearance settings, uncheck the Show animated backgrounds in new tabs in high resolution option.
Background animation doesn't work
Background animation may not work due to the following:
- Open a new tab.
- Under Tableau to the right, click
and enable the Background animation option.
- Click .
- Go to the Video adapters section. A list of video cards appears.
- Right-click on the name of your video card.
- In the context menu, select Update drivers.
- Tap .
- At the bottom of the Settings page, click Show advanced settings.
- 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.
- Restart the browser to apply these changes.
- Temporarily disable all extensions: .
- If your animation re-appears, try going through your extensions one at a time to find the one that was blocking it.
- Disable the problematic extension. You may want to let the developers know about the problem.
- Clear your cache so that the browser doesn't load a copy of the page that was rendered earlier and contains the blocked animation.
Update the driver for each video-card that is installed on your computer:
Try turning the hardware accelerator on or off:
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
- Open the file search field in Windows.
- Copy
[%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Yandex\YandexBrowser\User Data\Default\] (without the brackets)
and paste it into the file search box.
- Tap Enter.
Can I change the browser theme?
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 of photos or videos or uploading your own image as a background.