How to enable display of tabs in Yandex browser

What is the difference

A tab is a window where the site or its page open during a session is located. In turn, a bookmark is a saved address of a site or an individual page. The latter are created for quick access to frequently visited resources: social networks, cloud storage, video hosting and others.

Inexperienced users often confuse these concepts. Additional confusion is caused by search engines that automatically replace the word “tabs” with “bookmarks.”

How to close all subwindows?

It happens that Yandex freezes, open sites stop functioning, and it’s difficult to even navigate the site. Do you want to close a window to reopen it, but it doesn't work? You need to: call the “consul” of Yandex management (to do this, press “Shift+Esc”) and cancel the current session.

Bottom line: if you don’t want to look for ways to recover lost pages, add interesting sites to your bookmarks. If you haven’t done this and can’t find the site address, don’t worry: there are several ways to open closed tabs in the Yandex browser.

How to setup

The developers have added customization elements. To use them:

Now about the available functions for transforming the program interface.

Color scheme

Choose how the interface design will look:

If the system has a dark background, then the user can enable a dark theme for the web browser interface.

New inset

This item configures the appearance of the Yandex.Browser home page. Enable/disable here:

Additional parameters include setting:

These settings allow you to unload the main page.

Tabs

The most extensive item, compared to the previous ones, where they enable/disable:

limiting the minimum width, showing tab thumbnails;
duplication, transition to the previous active tab;
launching previously opened tabs or the Yandex home page.

Below, open the appearance settings, where you adjust the location and shape of the tabs.

Create a new tab

Note. If you do not use your smartphone for several hours, then when you turn it on, Yandex Browser will display previously opened tabs. If you want Yandex Browser to always open a new tab after a break, click Settings → Advanced and enable the option Start browser from new tab screen. Note. If you want a virtual keyboard to automatically appear on your screen when you open a new tab, in the Advanced section of settings, enable the Keyboard on new tab option.

Other Features

Next, about the functions and features that interest users.

Maximum number of sites

There is an unlimited number of tabs you can open at the same time in Yandex Browser, but only 10 of them will be active (loaded). This was done to reduce the load on RAM. When more than 50 resources are open, a scroll icon will appear to the right of them, which is necessary to find specific pages.

To find the required resource among a mass of others, hover your mouse over it to view the page title and site name.

Control Panel

When there are more than 7 open addresses, managing them from the header becomes inconvenient. In this case, calling the “Control Panel” using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+E will help. Why is she interesting:

the panel displays the total number of open pages, including pinned ones;
by tapping on the cross next to the resource name, it is closed, freeing up RAM;
they allow you to get rid of resources en masse by selecting several addresses at once;
When selected, a context menu appears with the ability to copy, move and delete links.

This feature is only available in the Windows version of the browser.

Consolidation

This topic is covered in detail in a separate article, so let’s go through the basics. When you need the site to open when the browser starts:

In a similar way, resources are unpinned.

View open sites on other devices

When synchronization is enabled, information about open web resources will be available in the program settings:

Synchronization unites PCs, mobile devices, set-top boxes and SmartTVs.

Side panel

Yandex Browser has a very convenient sidebar , with its help you can quickly access frequently used Yandex functions and services. If you open more than 10 tabs at the same time, a special button will automatically appear on the panel, indicating the number of open pages.

If you click on it, an information window will open with a list of all pages open in the browser. Here you can search for tabs and delete them by clicking on the cross. When you right-click the mouse, a context menu will also appear with a list of functions that can be performed with this page.

In Yandex Browser you can open as many tabs as you like. The question is more about how much your PC can handle. When loading more than 20 sites on weak PCs, you can notice a fairly significant drop in performance. And when 50 or more pages are working simultaneously, the computer may freeze.

Useful features

Interesting features in a few lines:

to disable/enable sound playback in a separate tab, tap on the speaker icon;
to open the link address in a new window, hover the cursor over it, hold Shift and left-click;
hold the left mouse button on a tab to drag it to the front/end of the list, bringing it out as a new window;
right-click on the tab, additional parameters will open; to apply them to several sites at the same time - hold down Shift, select the sites and use RMB again.

Smartphones do not provide such a variety of functions.

Tabs can not only be opened/closed, but also moved, duplicated, or pinned to the header.

To select multiple tabs, click on them one at a time while holding down the Ctrl key (Windows) or ⌘ (macOS). Right-click on any of the highlighted tabs and select the desired command (for example, you can open multiple tabs in a new window or close them).

If the tabs are side by side, use the Shift key to quickly select a group:

Hold Shift and click on the first and then the last tab of the group you want to highlight. Right-click on any of the highlighted tabs and select the desired command.

To deselect it, click on any other tab.

Close multiple tabs

By default, closing the browser does not close all tabs. To enable this feature:

Click the icon in the browser (if there is no icon, click the menu button on the smartphone).
Click Settings.
In the Advanced section, enable the option Close tabs when exiting the browser.

If you want to manually close multiple tabs:

Click the icon to enter tab navigation mode.
Touch and hold a tab.
Select the context menu item: Close tabs above, Close tabs below, Close other tabs or Close all tabs.

Managing tabs

Note.
Tab management is only available on Windows. When you have many tabs open, they can be difficult to navigate. Yandex Browser offers to work with a large number of tabs in a special panel, where the tabs are displayed in the form of a vertical list and grouped by window.

To open the Tab Control Panel, click the sidebar icon or Ctrl+Shift+E on Windows.

Note. The icon appears if you have enabled the sidebar and have more than ten tabs open. To add an icon manually, right-click on the sidebar and select the Manage tabs option. To remove the icon, uncheck the Manage tabs option.

You can manage your tabs via:

Control panel icons
Context menu

Right-click on any of the highlighted tabs.

What is a tab in the Yandex browser

A tab in Yandex Browser is a browser function where the user can enter a search query into the address bar and go to the site they are looking for. Internal, service pages, and website pages open in an isolated environment. In the browser they are displayed as a small panel at the very top. When going to this tab, the user sees the site itself, all text and media content.

Each open page has certain features : the panel displays graphic and text information:

On the left is favicon . This is a small graphic image, usually a site logo or arrow, or other element that gives an idea of what resource it belongs to.
Title , or page title. We see the same title in the snippet in the search results. Not to be confused with the title of the article, they can be radically different.
When you hover your mouse over this panel, depending on your browser settings, a small screenshot , which helps you quickly navigate through open pages when there are a lot of them running.

Number and size of tabs

The number of tabs in Yandex Browser is not limited, although a large number of tabs can overload the computer's processor and memory.

Note. A user can have several dozen tabs open at the same time. In order not to overload the computer's memory and resources, the Browser loads no more than ten tabs at startup. Moreover, it does this sequentially, and not simultaneously. The video starts playing only in the active tab.

If you have more than 50 tabs open in your browser, a horizontal scroll icon appears to the right of them. So that if there are a large number of tabs, their size does not decrease too much:

In the Tabs block, enable the Limit minimum tab width option.

The large number of tabs is difficult to navigate. Therefore, when you hover your mouse over the tab title, the Browser shows a thumbnail screenshot of the page. If you want to disable tab previews:

In the Tabs block, disable the option Show tab thumbnails on hover. If you accidentally follow the same link from an external application several times, several identical tabs will open in Yandex Browser. To avoid this, tap → Settings → Interface and enable the option Don't duplicate tabs when navigating from external apps.

Automatic opening of tabs

Depending on the settings specified, the browser starts with previously launched pages or with the default home page. This function can be customized to your liking.

To set up automatic opening of previously launched tabs in Yandex, as if the browser had not been closed, go to settings. Click on the button with three stripes in the upper right corner.

Select the item “Settings” .

Scroll to the “Interface” and in the “Tabs” , check or uncheck the item “When the browser starts, open previously opened tabs . Here you can customize the appearance.

The number of running sites can reach hundreds (as long as your computer resources last). The tab itself is rubber and with a large number they are compressed to the size of only the logo being visible. When the number of open sites exceeds 50 pcs. An arrow appears on the right, by clicking on which you can display a list of icons that do not fit. They will scroll to the left and also in the opposite direction.

For convenience, you can set a tab size limit when opening a large number of sites to make it easier to navigate them. In the Yandex Browser settings menu, in the “Interface”/”Tabs” section, check the “Limit minimum tab width” and “Show site thumbnails on hover” checkboxes. A very convenient function when 20-30 sites are running and it’s difficult to figure out which ones. Thumbnails will help you determine which site to go to and whether it is needed for further work.

When visiting Internet pages, we perform the same type of actions every day, but often we do not know what they are called. For example, questions may arise about how to add a new tab in Yandex Browser. In fact, every user does this intuitively when surfing the Internet. In this article we will talk about the features of this function, what you can do with them, how to save and configure the browser for maximum convenience.

Sync tabs

After synchronizing your devices with your Yandex ID, you will be able to view tabs that are open on another computer, tablet or smartphone. This feature is useful in the following situations:

If you have two computers: home and work. You were browsing a website on your work computer and didn’t close the tab. At home, you need to open it and continue working. If you have a mobile device and a computer. You found an interesting site on your smartphone or tablet and want to watch it on the big screen. Yandex Browser must be installed on all devices (computer, smartphone, tablet). Synchronization must be enabled on all devices. When synchronizing, the devices must use the same Yandex ID. At the top of the page, go to the Other devices tab. Click the icon with the number of tabs (if 3 tabs are open).

How to pin a tab

Pinning tabs is a feature that allows you to work with a site without worrying about accidentally closing it.

This can be done through the page context menu. Right-click on the desired tab and select “ Pin tab ” from the list. It will move to the upper left corner and decrease in size. There is no cross on it to close it. You can unpin it in the same way - you need to right-click the mouse and select the appropriate item in the menu.

Restore tabs after reinstallation

If you want to keep the tabs in their places after reinstalling the browser:

Click Programs → Programs and Features → Uninstall a program. In the Uninstall or change a program window, select the Yandex program. Turn on synchronization to transfer history from the server to your computer. Click on the Smart line and go to the Recently Closed tab that appears below it.

If you had synchronization enabled, then after reinstalling the system you will be able to access the tabs that were previously open on this computer. Synchronization is tied to the device name, which, as a rule, changes during the OS reinstallation. When you sync your computer under a new name, the Browser thinks it's a new device. Therefore, a folder with the old computer name appears on the Other devices tab. In it you can see the tabs that were open in the browser before reinstalling the OS. For this:

Open the folder with the old computer name. In the Open sites block you will see a list of tabs that were open in the Browser before the reinstallation. Advice. To open all tabs in the list at once, click the title of the Open sites block.

If after reinstalling the OS the computer name remains the same, the folder will not appear, since the browser will not consider the computer a new device. To make the folder appear:

Rename the computer: Control Panel → System and Security → System → Advanced system settings → Computer name. Wait for the data to sync with the server. Go to the Other devices tab and open the folder with the old computer name.

Saving a tab to bookmarks

The tab is saved in the browser until it is closed by the user manually or upon reboot, if previously launched pages are configured to be open. In order not to lose interesting resources, you can save tabs to bookmarks . This is a function that allows you to save a site or page in the bookmarks bar and later open it at any time with one click.

While on the page you are interested in, click on the flag at the end of the “smart” line.
This requires authorization in your Yandex account.
The checkbox will change color to red and a pop-up will appear in the upper right part of the working window, where you need to select the location of the bookmark.
The default is " Bookmarks Bar ", but you can choose a different location, create a new folder, or share the bookmark in collections.

If you don't have a Yandex account, create one, it will take no more than 2 minutes.

Problems with tabs

In the Sync section, click Sync Settings.
Make sure that the Open tabs option is enabled in the What to sync section. You can close incorrectly working tabs or view Browser operation statistics using the task manager. To open the task manager, click → More → More tools → Task Manager or Shift + Esc keys.

Close the browser by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Q.

In the Performance section, disable the Use hardware acceleration if possible option. Close the browser by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Q. Launch your browser again for the changes to take effect.

This could happen in one of the following cases:

The option When starting the browser, open previously opened tabs in the block → Settings → Interface → Tabs is disabled. You have closed your multi-window browser. After restarting, the browser restores the window that was last closed. Tabs from another window do not open.

To access missing tabs:

Using hotkeys
From Tablo
From the history

If the tabs are gone and you haven't closed the empty browser window:

Press Ctrl + Shift + T . A new window will appear with missing tabs. Press Ctrl + Shift + Q to close hanging browser processes. Note. You can only restore tabs the first time you restart your browser after they disappear. On subsequent restarts, the tabs will be lost.

If you close the browser after the tabs disappear:

Tabs of recently closed browser windows are combined into the Other window group indicating the number of tabs. Select the desired window and all grouped tabs will open in a new browser window.

To see a full list of previously opened tabs, click Show all history.

Note. You can only restore tabs the first time you restart your browser after they disappear. On subsequent restarts, the tabs will be lost.

If you close the browser after the tabs disappear:

Click the line with the number of tabs from the previous session.

To drag the browser window, use the Smart Row area outside the text field. The mouse pointer should look like . If you see a cursor when you hover your mouse over the Smart Bar, move your mouse pointer to the right.

Open the context menu with the right mouse button and select Print. Select a connected printer. The interface will switch to print mode.

Tab features

You can perform various actions on open pages. Right-click on the page name in the top panel to expand the context menu. Here you will see a list of functions:

Increasing the number of visual bookmarks in the Yandex browser

As you may have noticed, some functions can be performed using key combinations that are indicated opposite the corresponding item.

Hotkeys and mouse gestures for working with tabs

Hotkeys

Ctrl + Shift + Tab

Ctrl + click link

Ctrl + Shift + click link

Ctrl + Shift + Tab

Ctrl + click link

Ctrl + Shift + click link

Mouse Gestures

To perform gestures, hold down the right mouse button. After completing the gesture, release the button.

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Creating switchable tabs

Step 1) add HTML:

Example

London Paris Tokyo

London

London is the capital city of England.

Paris

Paris is the capital of France.

Tokyo

Tokyo is the capital of Japan.
Create buttons to open specific tab content. All

elements with class="tabcontent" are hidden by default (with CSS & JS). When the user clicks on a button — it will open the tab content that “matches” this button.

Step 2) Add CSS:

Style the buttons and the tab content:

Example

/* Style the tab */ .tab { overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid #ccc; background-color: #f1f1f1; } /* Style the buttons that are used to open the tab content */ .tab button { background-color: inherit; float: left; border: none; outline: none; cursor: pointer; padding: 14px 16px; transition: 0.3s; }

/* Change background color of buttons on hover */ .tab button:hover { background-color: #ddd; }

/* Create an active/current tablink class */ .tab button.active { background-color: #ccc; }

/* Style the tab content */ .tabcontent { display: none; padding: 6px 12px; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-top: none; }

Step 3) add JavaScript:

Example

function openCity(evt, cityName) { // Declare all variables var i, tabcontent, tablinks; // Get all elements with class="tabcontent" and hide them tabcontent = document.getElementsByClassName("tabcontent"); for (i = 0; i < tabcontent.length; i++) { tabcontent .style.display = "none"; }

// Get all elements with class="tablinks" and remove the class "active" tablinks = document.getElementsByClassName("tablinks"); for (i = 0; i < tablinks.length; i++) { tablinks.className = tablinks.className.replace(" active", ""); }

// Show the current tab, and add an “active” class to the button that opened the tab document.getElementById(cityName).style.display = “block”; evt.currentTarget.className += "active"; }

Actions with tabs

Create a tab - above the Smart line, click the icon. Mute a tab - To the right of the tab name, click the icon. Unmute a tab - To the right of the tab name, click the icon. Open tab in background - Right-click the link and select Open link in new tab. Open tab in new window - Right-click the link and select Open link in new window. Open a recently closed tab - click → History and select the desired tab from the list that opens. Or, right-click on the tab title and select Open the tab you just closed. Go to the top of the page - to quickly go to the top of the page, click on the tab; To return, click on the tab again. Refresh Tab - Click the icon to the left of the Smart Bar. Move tab - Click on the tab and hold down the left mouse button. Then move the tab left or right. Pin a tab - Right-click a tab and select Pin Tab. Duplicate a tab - Right-click the tab and select Duplicate. Print the contents of a tab - In a blank area of the page, right-click on the page and select Print. Close tab - Hover your mouse over the tab title and click the icon that appears. Note. By default, closing a tab will take you to the tab to the right of the one you closed. To go to a previously active tab, in the block → Settings → Interface, enable the option When closing a tab, go to the previous active tab. Close all tabs except the selected one - Right-click the tab and select Close other tabs.

Tab Group Actions

If the tabs are side by side, use the Shift key to quickly select a group:

Hold Shift and click on the first and then the last tab of the group you want to highlight. Right-click on any of the highlighted tabs and select the desired command.

To deselect it, click on any other tab.

Settings for automatically opening tabs

The browser has a lot of options for flexible configuration. One of them is setting up previously opened pages. What we mean here is that if you are working on a project and it is important to you that open pages are not lost in any case, or you have completed your work, but tomorrow you need to work with these sites again, you can configure the browser so that when you start the browser on the next day, all previously opened tabs loaded automatically.

Where are Google Chrome browser bookmarks stored?

The setting will work if you close the browser with open pages. If you close all pages before turning off the browser, then it will start the next time, empty.

Instructions on how to configure the opening of tabs in Yandex:

To change settings, click on the “ Menu ” button and in the list that opens, select “ Settings ” or copy this address browser://settings/ into the browser’s smart line and press Enter.
Switch to the “ Interface ” section in the left panel and in the central part of the window in the “ Tabs ” block, check the last three items.

Tab settings

Let’s not go far from the settings section, here you can set the optimal options for displaying tabs. Follow the link under the list of options and mark where the panel with open sites and its form should be located.

Managing tabs

To open the Tab Control Panel, click the sidebar icon or Ctrl+Shift+E on Windows.

And this despite the fact that those buttons moved to the top, and under them there is simply a choice of theme, although it was possible to leave that button, since it did not disappear.

Well, in short, the weather and letters are more important there. Fuck.

Mikhail Sultaev I don’t use the Yandex browser only because its advertising is not blocked by any ad blockers on their service. Besides, it eats up RAM like crazy. Mikhail, dude, you just open the settings and press one single button, which is responsible for advertising, even a schoolboy can handle it. and about burning memory, such nonsense, I don’t even notice that it somehow consumes memory. Mikhail Sultaev replied to Victor Victor, it doesn’t help, even one, even five buttons, advertising on their services cannot be killed Mikhail Sultaev replied to Victor Victor, with three tabs he ate a gigabyte, despite the fact that Firefox with four plugins, with three tabs twice as much ate less Savely Zavgorodniy replied to Mikhail Mikhail Sultaev replied to Savely Savely Zavgorodniy Mikhail Sultaev Savely Zavgorodniy replied to Mikhail Mikhail, for some reason I can’t upload a screen 1 gig eats with so many tabs Savely Zavgorodniy Mikhail Sultaev replied to Savely Savely, well, in short, I’m just crazy like Yandex Browser Saveliy Zavgorodniy replied to Mikhail Mikhail, I don’t like it and don’t like it, I have nothing against) but it doesn’t eat that much Mikhail Sultaev replied to Savely I just installed it, I ate a lot, I’m upset by the presence of functions in the browser that I don’t use Savely Zavgorodniy replied to Mikhail Mikhail , well, I don’t know) I’ve now opened a bunch of tabs 3 times more than on the screen, barely anything has changed, it became 1,300. The functionality is also great and all the services are present and I like them more than Google Mikhail Sultaev answered Savely Savely, I just such a situation that when I used something new, and then it turned out to be impossible for me to use constantly, I begin to wildly hate the thing or device, program. Savely Zavgorodniy replied to Mikhail Mikhail, I can say the same thing about Mozilla (very slow, I don’t like Google’s interface, Opera is both) Mikhail Sultaev replied to Savely Savely, is Mozilla slow? When I open them on my computer, the Chrome browser only goes online within a minute. Mozilla - opened it, you use it right away, you don’t wait, you don’t waste time getting it to connect. It has only one drawback: the quantum engine cannot cope with 2K and higher video quality. Mikhail Sultaev replied to Saveliy Saveliy Zavgorodniy replied to Mikhail Mikhail, When my Yandex crashed, it was in 2022, I didn’t know why. I tried all browsers, even little-known ones. So the mozilla was the worst for me. Mikhail Sultaev replied to Savely Savely, I don’t know what this is connected with. But for about two years now I’ve definitely completely switched to Firefox after Google Chrome. There are never any problems Mikhail, no one forces you to use it, smart people just say that the problem is not in the browser, but in your laptop. so the hate is weird

Vladislav, personally, I don’t like Yandex, and almost everything connected with it. It’s just not the best Russian company that is trying to force pre-installation of its applications on smartphones and all that. Google seems more convenient to me, + when I switched from Yandex disk to Google Drive, I began to work with files much better.

However, I’ll say right away that I don’t condemn your choice and all that. to each his own

Denis, well, I understand the taste and color, as they say. It’s strange to talk about the pre-installation of Yandex applications on smartphones, which she didn’t even ask for, with Google, which pays billions so that its search was by default in Yablov’s Safari) about the fact that only their applications were on phones, I’m generally silent. Well, yes, to each his own Denis, I agree. Google also sometimes screws up with personal data and all that. But it’s better that all sorts of American CIA receive my data and see all my dirty secrets, than our intelligence services, who will happily use this data to coerce me in order to carry out the plan. In general, I don’t particularly like changing the interface in different ones. I didn’t have time to get used to the new thing and half the buttons were hidden. Then again

In the browser, you can customize the appearance of the application, enable or disable additional functions that expand the capabilities of the browser, select the most convenient default search engine, change the settings of the main screen and bookmarks. By performing detailed browser settings, you can work in the most comfortable conditions.

Sitting on the phone

Many of us keep it close at all times. And as soon as a free second appears, for example when a web page on a computer takes too long to load, we instinctively reach for our smartphone. Most often, we end up on Instagram, TikTok or any other social network, where we waste 5, 7, 10, or even more minutes.

Try to plan this time. Let's say, check your accounts for 15 minutes at 12:00, 15:00 and 17:00. This schedule will curb the urge to pick up your phone during the day.

How to get to the settings menu

All parameters that can be changed are collected in one browser tab. Some of them can be accessed from other places (for example, you can change the parameters of the Alice voice assistant through a shortcut that appears after installing the browser), but you can get a full list of settings only on the “Settings” page.

Open browser settings

To open it, expand the browser menu by clicking on the icon in the form of three parallel lines (it is located in the upper right corner near the “Collapse” and “Close window” icons), and then select the “Settings” section. A new tab will open in which you can find all the items described below.

What should you do to avoid losing pages?

If you do not want to lose the visited Internet resource, just save the tab in the browser. To do this, you just need to “attach” the desired page:

Go to Yandex settings.
Go to "Bookmarks".
Click on "Create Bookmark".

Alternatively, click on the star to the right of the address bar.

You'll be able to find the tab, even if you close it, in the bar below the address bar.

If the bookmark is not visible, go to settings, then to “Bookmarks”, then Show bookmarks bar:

If you want to hide the bookmarks bar (it's bothering you), go to Bookmarks, Hide Bookmarks Bar.

Browser settings

Once in the browser settings, you can begin to study all the blocks. We will look at each item in turn, understand why it is needed and whether it is worth changing anything in it.

Synchronization

Synchronization is the exchange of information between multiple devices. For example, you have a phone and a computer, and Yandex.Browser (hereinafter referred to as “YB” for short) is installed on each device. Having found the desired site on your phone, you add it to your bookmarks. In the future you will be able to find it in this section, but only on the phone, because synchronization is not activated.

If you want an action performed on one device to automatically appear on another, enable synchronization. By doing this, you will get access to unified bookmarks, interesting pages, news in the smart feed, browser settings and saved passwords.

It's worth activating synchronization even if you only have one device. After all, after turning it on, all of the above data will begin to be saved not only in the computer’s memory, but also on Yandex servers. Therefore, if YaB is deleted from your computer or for some reason the data is lost, you can restore it at any time by re-activating synchronization with your account on any device.

To enable synchronization, you must perform the following steps:

Click on the “Set up synchronization” button.

Click the “Set up synchronization” button

Appearance

In the appearance settings block, you can enable or disable:

Changing the design parameters of the main page

Bookmarks bar

In the bookmarks block, you can choose whether to show the pages you have bookmarked under the address bar. There are three options:

Always;
never;
only in the display - show on the main page of the browser and remove it when working on any other page.

The browser can show bookmarks in the scoreboard

Separately, you can specify whether to show site icons or display only their name.

Informers and search

By default, YaB selects Yandex as its main search engine, i.e., by entering a query directly into the address bar, you will receive a search result from Yandex. If you want to use another search engine (for example, Google), select it in this block.

Select a search engine and voice assistant options

Below you can specify the parameters for the voice assistant:

enable or disable the display of the “Alice” icon on the main page of the browser;
enable or disable calling “Alice” by voice;
enable or disable Alice.

Launch

Choose what the browser should do after launch: show the main page with all bookmarks or expand the pages that were opened in the last session. Please note that if you choose the second option, then all sites will begin to load again after launch, even though they were opened earlier.

The second option has a sub-item: you can enable the deployment of the Yandex search engine if no tabs were opened before launching.

Tabs

Three small blocks are dedicated to the tabs. You can choose from them:

what to do after closing the current tab - go to the previous active tab or open the next page in the list of open ones;
placement of tabs - at the top (by default) or at the bottom, under the page content;
minimum size - small or large (calculated relative to the screen size).

We indicate how the tabs should look and work

Notifications

In this block, you can click a button that turns off all notifications from all sites for the next 3 hours. To go to detailed settings, click on the “Notification settings” button.

Configuring notification settings for each site

Profiles

A profile is a set of settings for a specific person. This feature will be of interest to you if several people use the computer at the same time. For example, one wants the “Turbo” mode to always be on, while the other wants it to be turned off.

In order not to change browser settings every time, you can create two profiles, each of which will store its own settings, and switch between them.

Default browser

If during the installation of the browser you did not check the “Make YaB the default browser” checkbox, then the default browser will remain Internet Explorer or Edge (the standard Windows browser). If you want all links and files of certain formats to be opened in YaB, enable it using this block.

Ad blocking

YaB has a built-in antivirus that protects you from unwanted advertising. It does not block all advertisements in a row, but destroys only those that are harmful or uncultured (18+ images and unpleasant pictures that some use to attract attention).

You can choose whether the defender should block dangerous ads and whether it should remove ad blocks that obscure basic information on the site. It is also possible to add your favorite sites to the exclusion list, so that advertising on them remains untouched, but is blocked on all other resources.

We indicate which sites do not need to block ads

Turbo mode

Turbo mode allows you to speed up page loading. When it's running, some content is hidden and won't load until you ask it to. Let's say there are a lot of pictures on a site with text that do not carry important information - YaB will ignore them, loading only the text, which is why the site will open tens of times faster. Turbo mode is very useful when the Internet speed is low.

Turbo mode speeds up page loading

You can choose one of three activation modes:

always on;
always off;
Turns on only when the Internet connection speed is low.

Turbo mode has two options: notifications about changes in Internet speed and video compression. The second function will speed up the loading of videos, but at the same time their quality will decrease.

Safety

There is a separate page for security settings. To go to it, click on the “Security Settings” button.

Once in the new tab, you can set what security measures to use. It is recommended that you do not disable the features provided by the Security Defender. By limiting its functions, you will reduce the level of security and increase the chance that your computer will be infected with a virus and your data will be stolen.

We indicate what the browser will protect the computer from

Personal data

In the personal data block, you can determine what information YaB has the right to receive about you. You can remove or give permission to:

location determination;
storing information about previous search queries;
cache storage for faster page opening;
sending data on the use of nuclear weapons and errors encountered to the Yandex analytics department;
collecting information to select the most interesting news for the Zen smart feed.

In the same block there is a button that allows you to clear your download history.

By clicking on the “Content Settings” button, you can change the settings for working with cookies, images and site scripts written in JavaScript.

Choosing a way to work with cookies, images and JS

Passwords and forms

YaB can remember and safely store passwords, logins, email addresses and other information that often has to be entered on various sites. If you have auto-filling of forms enabled, the browser itself will understand what needs to be written in this or that line, and will do it for you.

Here you can also enable or disable the password manager - a utility that remembers which password is suitable for which site and stores data in a secure form.

Context menu

A context menu is a list of functions that appears after you right-click on an element. You can specify whether YaB needs to show the “Copy” and “Search in...” buttons when selecting text, without waiting for the context menu to be called.

The context menu contains the “Copy” and “Search” functions

Web Content

You can set the default page size - display it at a scale greater than 100%, or, conversely, reduce it. You can also increase the text size and choose whether to show tooltips for certain functions.

Languages

YaB has a built-in translator that can:

immediately translate a foreign text upon noticing it on the page;
translate it when you select the desired fragment;
translate the text when you move the cursor over it and press the Shift key;
show the original translated text in a separate window.

Mouse Gestures

In addition to hotkeys that allow you to control the browser from the keyboard, there are mouse button combinations that allow you to issue commands without hovering the cursor. By default, they are activated, and to use them, you need to hold down the right mouse button and make some movement. For example, to return to the previous page, you need to hold down the right button and move the mouse to the left.

You can see the full list of gestures on the official Yandex website.

Uploaded files

In this block, you can specify which folder the downloaded files will be loaded into, or select the option in which the browser will ask you about it every time.

Office format files (Word, Excel, etc.) can be opened directly in the browser, but for this you need to connect Yandex.Disk.

Energy saving

Power saving mode is useful for laptop users. Thanks to it you can extend your battery life. YaB himself will disable currently unused functions and try to reduce the load on the computer. You can choose when to activate the power saving mode and whether to show its icon (the yellow battery located near the Downloads icon in the upper right corner of the browser).

System

These parameters are responsible for the operation of the YaB in the background and its relationship to consumed resources. It is recommended to leave the default settings as this will ensure maximum performance. The only exception is that you may want to disable it from running in the background. If this is not done, then some YaB processes will run and load the system even when the browser is closed.

In system settings you can choose how the browser will work

Video: setting up Yandex Browser

When can I restore a closed page? How to do it?

If you accidentally closed a tab (while not in Incognito mode), you can restore it in the following ways:

through Yandex browser history;
using the operational menu of closed pages.

It is impossible to restore a closed pane through Yandex history. It will simply help you find out the address of a site whose page was accidentally closed (which will help you enter the site address again and get to it). To get into the Yandex history, click on the “Yandex Browser settings” button located in the upper right corner:

Next, select the “History” section, and the URLs (URL is a uniform locator, the address of an Internet site) of all visited sites will appear.

To quickly open the history in any browser, press the “Ctrl+H” keys.

The top rows contain recently visited pages, while the bottom rows contain older ones. If it is difficult to find the desired address, focus on the time of visiting the page in the left column, which shows not only the date, but also the exact time:

If you remember any part of the name of the Internet site or the beginning of the address, then use the quick search, which is located in the upper right corner of the “History”:

A way to quickly restore a recently closed page: press the “Ctrl+Shift+T” keys together.

For users who worked in Incognito mode, this method of solving the problem will not help. You shouldn’t even try, because the address of an Internet site visited in this mode is not even saved in the log.

How to restore a page by calling up the bookmarks menu? The method will be effective for you if you use it in case of a recent site closure (about a few seconds), at the most, the closed page should be one of the last closed within the next period of time, why otherwise this method will not be a solution to the problem? Because the operational menu cannot contain more than eight URLs in the list of closed subwindows.

To open the operational menu, click on the “History” settings menu. A list of recently closed sites will appear below it:

Not in every case it is possible to restore a closed page of an Internet site. Therefore (in order not to spend a long time looking for a way to solve the problem), if the resource is important to you, save it using “attachment”. It will be more convenient. Linking sites will be discussed below.

Reset

If, after you changed something in the settings, the browser began to work slower, and the cause of the problem cannot be traced, then you should reset the settings. In this case, all parameters will return to default values and you will receive the YaB in the form in which it appears after the first installation.

If something goes wrong, you can reset the settings

The "Reset settings" function is at the very end of the list of settings. To use it, just press the button and confirm the action. Some time after the reset is completed, the browser will restart and become completely clean.

Setting up the home page

The main page (board) is a window where quick access panels to sites and the “Zen” ribbon are displayed. By default, YaB itself types a list of sites that will be displayed on this screen. But you can change it:

By hovering the cursor over a tile, you will see additional functions: pinning and deleting tiles;
Using the “Add” button, you can add another tile with the site you need. The picture will be selected automatically.

Add and pin tabs using the appropriate buttons

By default, the background changes automatically after a certain period of time. But you can select your picture or background from the Yandex list by clicking the “Background Gallery” button.

In the gallery you can select a picture for the background

The presence or absence of the “Zen” ribbon and the “Alice” voice assistant icon on the main page of the screen can be selected in the browser settings.

Adding a new page

The question of how to make a tab in Yandex is asked by many inexperienced users. This can be done in various ways. Depending on preferences, the user decides how it is more convenient for him to perform this action.

start page

By default, after installation and when you start the browser, you will see the start page:

To open a new page, enter a request in the “smart” line or click on one of the visual bookmarks that are displayed on the display under the address bar.
A new page will appear in the browser and you will also be automatically redirected to it. If this is a search result, then find the site you are looking for by request and go to it by simply clicking on the link.

Bookmarks bar

Another way is to open a new page by clicking on the round button to the right of the open site. The main Yandex Browser will appear on the screen, where to go to the site you are looking for, enter its address in the smart line or simply write a key query.

If no Internet resource is open in the browser, but instead the start page is displayed, then there will be no plus button on the panel.