Yandex Browser background

You can use the following media as a background:

  1. Open a new tab.

  2. In the lower-right corner of the page, click  → Background gallery.

  3. Select a photo or video from an album.

  4. Click Use this background.

Note

You can configure the browser to randomly alternate images or videos from your Background gallery every 24 hours.

  • For one album. Select the album in the Background gallery and click Alternate these backgrounds.

  • For all albums. In the Background gallery, click Alternate next to All backgrounds.

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 can't cancel this filter. If you want a brighter background, enhance the brightness of the original image.

  1. Open a new tab.

  2. In the lower-right corner of the page, click  → Upload background.

  3. Select an image.

  4. Click Open.

Restriction

You can upload PNG and JPG files as background images.

Start or stop animation

Animated backgrounds look great, but they can drain your battery. To avoid this, pause the animation:

  1. Open a new tab.

  2. In the bottom-right corner, click .

  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. In the upper-right corner, click  → Settings.

  2. Open Tools.

  3. Under Power saving mode, deselect Disable background videos when battery is low.

Playback in high resolution

Animations playback in high resolution by default. If it causes Yandex Browser to work slower, set the standard animation quality:

  1. Click  → Settings → Interface.

  2. In the New tab page view section, disable the High-resolution animated background option.

Troubleshooting

Background animation doesn't work
Animation is paused

  1. Open a new tab.

  2. In the bottom-right corner, click .

  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The video-card driver is outdated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 → Control Panel → Device Manager.
  2. Open Video Adapters: a list of video cards will appear.
  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.

An extension is blocking animation

Check Yandex Browser extensions:

  1. Click  → Extensions and turn off all extensions.

  2. Restart Yandex Browser: close it by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Q (on Windows and Linux) or ⌘ + Q (on macOS), then open it again.

  3. Clear your cache so Yandex Browser doesn't load a copy of the page that was saved earlier.

  4. If this solves your problem, go through your extensions and turn them back on until you find the one that causes the problem. Restart Yandex Browser every time.

  5. Disable this extension. You may want to let the developers know about the problem.

If the problem persists, contact support via the form. Describe the situation in detail, and attach a screenshot if possible.

The background doesn't change on the Tableau page

Delete the File System folder and check whether the problem persists. The folder is located in the Yandex Browser profile folder:

  1. Open the file search box in Windows 7, 8, or 10.

  2. Copy the string below and paste it into the file search box:

    %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Yandex\YandexBrowser\User Data\Default\

  3. Press Enter.

Note

Support for Microsoft Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 ended in December 2024.

Support for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista ended in April 2017.

I can't delete the background

You can't completely disable or remove a Yandex Browser background. Try setting a single-color background instead of an image. Open the Colors album in the Yandex Browser background gallery, select the color you like, and click Use this background.

Restriction

You can't select a white background. This is because Yandex Browser elements (like links, widgets, and button names) should be visible on any background.

The background changed by itself

  1. Open a new tab.

  2. In the bottom-right corner, click .

  3. Disable the Change the background daily option.

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