Tableau

What is the Tableau?

The Tableau appears when you open a new tab or click the SmartBox. It's a panel with tiles, which are widgets of your most frequently visited websites. By default, the Tableau has tiles for some Yandex services.

To navigate to a site, click its tile (it displays the logo and, if the link is to a page different from the home page, the page name).

You can manually configure the set and sequence of tiles on the Tableau.

Change the size of tiles

• In the bottom-right corner, click .

• In the Tableau section, choose Tile size → Small, Medium, or Large.

Change the Tableau width

• Right-click an empty area on the screen to bring up the context menu.

• Choose Tableau width → Small, Medium, Big, or Fit to browser window.

If you choose Fit to browser window when changing the Yandex Browser window size, the tile size will also change.

Tableau appearance

On the new tab, you can see the full or short list of Tableau tiles. To do this:

1. Press  → Settings.

2. Open Interface → New tab page view.

3. Next to Show Tableau, select the option you need:

   • Full, if you want to see the maximum number of tiles.

   • Compact, if you want to see the minimum number of tiles. To see the rest of the tiles, scroll up.

Automatic selection of sites for the Tableau

When installing Yandex Browser, it automatically creates the Tableau:

• If you choose data import from other browsers, the Tableau will display sites that you open most often.

• If you don't import data, the Tableau will display a set of default sites.

Yandex Browser updates the tiles on the Tableau from time to time: it adds sites that you most often look for in the SmartBox or open through the Tableau. To keep the tiles you need at hand, pin them.

If you deleted a site from the Tableau and want to add it again, you will have to do it manually. Such sites are not added to the Tableau automatically.

Add tiles to the Tableau

1. Open a new tab.

2. In the bottom-right corner, click .

3. In the Tableau section, click Set up websites → Add site → Site.

4. Enter the site that you want to add to the Tableau. You can select a site from the lists of Popular or Recently visited sites, or enter a URL manually.

5. Click Done.

Alternatively, you can click an empty tile on the Tableau and specify the site.

Edit tiles

You can swap tiles using drag and drop.

Switch to the edit mode to manage the Tableau content.

• For individual tiles: Hover over the tile and click the  icon that appears.

• For all tiles: Click and hold a tile on the Tableau, or click  → Set up websites in the bottom-right corner.

In edit mode, you can:

— Remove tile

— Edit tile

— Pin tile

— Unpin tile

Additional editing features

Change the site that a tile links to	Click  → Change website and enter the website URL in the bar under the Tableau.
Add the site name to a tile	Click  → Change website, then click Add caption under the Tableau and enter a name for the site.
Edit the site name on a tile	Click  → Change website and edit the site name in the bar under the Tableau.

Tile folders on the Tableau

You can group tiles into folders. For example, tiles that link to Yandex services are grouped into a single folder by default.

Create a tile folder

1. Open Tableau.

2. Hover over any site tile and drag it onto another site tile. Hold for 1–2 seconds.

3. A new folder window appears. Place the tile in it.

4. Close the folder.

5. Drag all the site tiles that you want to group into the folder.

If there are no tiles that link to the sites you need on the Tableau, create a folder and add tiles to it:

1. In the bottom-right corner, click .

2. In the Tableau section, click Set up websites → Add site → Folder.

3. Click Add website and enter the URL or name of the site.

4. Repeat the action for all sites whose tiles you want to add to the folder.

5. Click Done.

Delete a tile folder

1. Open Tableau.

2. Hover the mouse cursor over a folder.

3. In the upper-right corner, click  → Remove.

Sync Tableau

Your Tableau is generated separately for each of your devices (since your favorite sites may differ on each of your devices). Use syncing to save different versions of the Tableau on the server. This way, you'll be able to restore any of them.

Restore the Tableau

When reinstalling Yandex Browser, it will restore the previous version of your Tableau or offer to choose from several versions.

To view saved versions and restore the one you want:

1. Click  → Settings → General settings → Syncing → Restore Tableau.

2. Select the desired version of the Tableau.

Disable Tableau syncing

1. Press  → Settings → General settings → Synchronization → Synchronization Settings.

2. Turn off Tableau.

Tiles disappear from the Tableau

Tiles displayed by the Tableau change because the tile list is formed automatically based on your most frequently visited pages. To avoid losing tiles, pin them.

Pin one tile

1. Open Tableau.

2. Hover over the tile and click  → Pin. If the tile is already pinned, the option changes to Unpin.

Note

To pin a tile, you can also select Pin in the context menu.

Pin multiple tiles

1. Open Tableau.

2. In the bottom-right corner, click .

3. In the Tableau section, click Set up websites.

4. Pin the tiles by clicking .

5. Click Done.

Keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures for working with the Tableau

Learn more

• Keyboard shortcuts

• Mouse gestures

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