Yandex browser users have probably noticed that when you open a new tab with a visual bookmarks panel, the background image constantly changes. Not so long ago, these backgrounds became animated. In our opinion, the idea is very interesting. But many people have a question: Is it possible to set your own background, for example, from the available images and photos on your computer? The answer is yes, of course you can. But you will learn exactly how to do this from this article.
This is done very simply, in just a few clicks of the mouse. The only thing you should consider when choosing an image for the future background is that it is better to choose horizontal images, since the Yandex browser will automatically stretch them to full screen.
Horizontal image example
If you try to set a vertical image or photo, it will be cut off at the top and bottom.
Vertical image example
So, for starters, open a new tab in the browser and right below the panel with visual site bookmarks, click on the button with three vertical dots at the bottom right.
Button with three dots to call the background management menu
A small context menu will open. In it, select the item "Download from computer".
Choose your own background from those available on your computer
In the window that appears, you need to go to the folder on your computer that contains the pictures or photos that you would like to set as a background.
Choosing an image for the future background
Select the desired image with the left mouse button and click on "Open".
After that, after a split second, the background of the tab with sites in the Yandex browser will change to the one you specified.
Unfortunately, the picture is not always set the way the user wants. Often cropping occurs due to the fact that stretching to full screen while maintaining proportions is required.
If you are not satisfied with how the image you selected was installed, you can try to select another one by repeating the steps described above.
Google Chrome and Opera browser. It's time for another browser.
In fact, everything is very simple. Live wallpapers are already enabled by default in the latest version of the browser, and in order for them to work, you just need to update it to the current version. Unfortunately, the screenshot does not convey the movement of the picture, so try it.
If the animation did not appear after the update, or if you want to disable live wallpapers, then we will do this through the settings. We click in the upper right corner of the three stripes and go to "Settings".
A new tab will open, in which we find the block "Appearance settings". Here you can enable or disable the new interface. You will need to restart your browser to apply the settings.
Now let's see how you can change the live wallpaper. Open a new tab and on the home screen, click on the "Customize screen" link.
Thumbnails of animated intros will appear a little lower. We click on the one you like, and then, to save the settings, click the "Finish" button.
Congratulations, now you know how to enable the new Yandex browser interface with live wallpapers.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make the old version of the Opera browser the default.
In this tutorial, I will show where you can find out the version of the Mozilla Firefox browser, as well as how you can update the browser to the current version.
In this lesson I will tell you where to enable live wallpapers for Yandex browser. I raised this topic when I talked about live wallpapers for browsers
Design themes for Yandex.Browser and individual websites allow you to get rid of the standard, for some boring, appearance of the interface. They create an atmosphere of individual creativity, to some extent cheer up and increase the comfort of use. This article will tell you how to change the background in Yandex Browser, set up "moving" images, and also how to download add-ons that provide the ability to change the background for VKontakte on Yandex Browser.
1. Create a new tab. Under the visual bookmarks bar, click the "Customize Screen" option.
2. Click on the "PLAY" icon in the selected preview to set the theme's animation - add "live" elements to its composition.
Note. For example, in the "Mountain Tops" illustration, when this add-on is activated, clouds begin to move across the sky.
In the same block, you can change the theme (pictures), and for free, and in the same way turn on / off the animation add-on in them.
3. To change the background in Yandex.Browser to an image from your own photo gallery stored on your computer, click on the block with the “+” symbol on the right side of the preview row.
And then in the system window, go to the appropriate directory, select the file and click "Open".
1. Pre-prepare a small video with an average pixel resolution in any video editor. It should be “light” both in quality and in volume (footage), so that when playing video sequences, the browser does not consume a lot of CPU resources.
2. Place the prepared video for the background on the desktop (for example, a fragment in which a car, plane, etc. is moving).
3. Open the Yandex directory:
Drive C → Users → → AppData → Local → Yandex → YandexBrowser → UserData → Wallpappers
4. Open the folder of any theme to further modify it.
5. Rename the prepared video file on the desktop: give it the name "video" (in previous versions of the web browser, you had to specify "source").
6. Drag the renamed desktop video to the theme profile folder. Confirm file replacement.
7. Launch the browser, select a theme in which the animated background for Yandex.Browser was replaced with your own video.
On the Web, you can find many software solutions for changing the background, designing an account on vk.com. However, when downloading them, always be interested in the developer so as not to personally give your credentials (login and password) into the hands of attackers.
Consider the most popular design add-ons that can be downloaded from the app store and offsite:
A cross-browser add-on that allows you to install any theme from the proposed catalog.
Clicking on an option opens a tab with theme thumbnails.
Along with a large selection of backgrounds and ease of use, it has one significant drawback. Requires the Orbitum browser to be installed on the system.
Suitable for changing graphic design not only on VKontakte, but also on other sites. Supports over 10 popular web resources.
Allows you to load background images from the computer disk (option "Put your own"), adjust the level of transparency of page blocks, background, brightness.
An online service that provides an add-on and a large catalog of ready-made backgrounds on various topics for popular browsers.
Connecting and configuring the service is carried out in 4 simple steps (download, enable, change, save your own add-ons).
To download the background from the catalog on the site, you need to click the "Install ..." button in its preview.
In earlier versions of Yandex, you could download and install themes from the Chrome app store. These browsers are very similar both externally and programmatically (at the code level), since they use the same chromium engine. But at the moment, this installation option in most cases does not work.
When you try to download a particular design in the browser through the Google Chrome app store, the message "An error occurred" or the notification "... not supported" appears.
If you need specialized extensions for other sites or want to get acquainted with other add-ons for creating a VKontakte profile, do the following:
1. In a web browser window, open: Menu → Add-ons → Extension catalog (at the bottom of the tab).
2. In the horizontal menu of the add-on store, click to open the "More" list. Select the Design section.
3. Install the add-ons you are interested in from the selected section.
Create an exclusive look and feel in your favorite browser. This procedure will take you only 5-10 minutes.
The Yandex browser has an interesting feature related to changing the interface. The user can set a live background for the Yandex browser from the list provided. This distinguishes Yandex.Browser from other browsers.
You can make the appearance of Yandex.Browser even more attractive by setting your own theme. And now we will tell you how to do this.
If you are wondering how to set an animated background for the Yandex browser, then the good news is that it is very easy to do. Here is the procedure:
2. Find the button " Customize screen»
3. At the bottom of the screen, you will find a list of presets that you can select and apply to the browser.
Each of the themes offered by Yandex.Browser is animated. Clouds are moving on one, plants are swaying from the wind on the other, raindrops are flowing down on the third ... Choose a theme at your discretion.
Any of the presented themes can be animated and static. If you want to enable or disable the animation, first go to the menu for changing themes according to the above instructions, and then click on the play/pause icon of the selected theme.
In the screenshot below you will see:
The selected topic, circled in a black square;
playback icon (if the picture is not currently moving);
pause icon (if the picture is currently animated).
If you don't like the themes provided by the browser, install your own theme. In this case, only a static JPEG or PNG image can be installed. To do this, click on the plus and specify the path to the image.
The applied theme will delight you every time you open a new tab. At the same time, on all other tabs, the page adapts to the interface of a particular site, so the theme elements will not be displayed there.
It is worth noting the possible disadvantage of these themes. The developers intended that after five minutes of inactivity, the animation stops to save PC resources. But sometimes the animation won't restart. At the moment, this problem is being solved, and if you encounter this, then just install the theme again using the method described above.
The open page is controlled by clicking on the title, if you move the mouse to the top bar, you will see that it will turn into a button. By clicking on the button you will be taken to the page menu
From this page, you can print, bookmark the page, copy the address, as well as use the search (or open another site). As for me, this is not very convenient, but perhaps this is a matter of habit.
Open page tabs moved down. In the first couple of hours of using the browser, it seemed unbearably inconvenient, but the very next day I kind of got used to it and I even started to like it.
All tabs are conveniently grouped by sites. For example, if you have 10 links open from a contact, one link from mail and a few more from different resources, then all 10 tabs from VKontakte will be collected in one tab. If you click on a VKontakte tab, all collapsed tabs will expand. As for me, it is very convenient.
The browser menu is concise and intuitive, but if you open an additional menu, chrome lovers will see something painfully familiar 🙂
In principle, the developers do not hide the fact that their browser is built on the “skeleton” of chromium (or rather, chromium, the progenitor of all modern browsers, except for firefx). It is clear why reinvent the wheel when it has long been invented and tested.
On this I will finish my mini review, I will work in this browser for a couple more weeks, after which I will write my feelings. So far, I like everything, I really like that it works quite tolerably on weak hardware and. Have you already installed the new Yandex.Browser?
Themes for Yandex. A lot of people on the Internet are looking for a browser, everyone wants to give their browser a personality and a beautiful appearance, but where to look for themes? Yandex. The browser just came out, and it does not have its own app store, like other popular browsers, but in fact it is not.
The fact is that the browser is created on the engine Chromium. Many more browsers were created on its basis, including Google Chrome. The browsers are similar in appearance and in many functions, which means that themes from the Google Chrome online store should also be supported in Yandex. Browser. I suggest checking it out right now.
Attention! At the moment, this feature with themes from Google Chrome does not work, but THERE IS A WAY OUT! I suggest you download beautiful backgrounds for the Yandex browser. Just select the path/folder to unpack the exe file and the archive will be saved there.
How to change the background wrote below:
1) Find this button in the lower left corner, and click on it.
2) In the right corner you will find the "Download" button, through it and change the standard background to a new one.
It is also possible to choose themes from Google or from artists, compare them, the second option from artists looks much cooler, and there I will choose a theme for myself.
But first, it’s worth saying that topics can also be found by keywords in the search.
Have you chosen your favorite topic? Let's move on to the installation. Hover the mouse over the theme, and click the "Free" button, after checking the theme for compatibility, it will be installed automatically.
So, the installation is completed, let's see what happened ... Yes, I did not expect this, the top of the theme has changed, but the background has remained the same, why is that? We'll find out soon...
As I found out later, it turns out that the themes from Google Chrome are only partially supported, and you have to search for the background yourself, by the name of the theme, or some thematic one, for example, I found a picture of my theme through the image search, and set it as the background, and this is what this happened. This puzzled me and I decided to find out what Yandex itself says about this.
Here is what is written on the Yandex browser support site. Not all themes are fully compatible with Yandex browser.
Yandex Browser, among various functions, has the ability to set a background for a new tab. If desired, the user can set a beautiful live background for Yandex.Browser or use a static image. Due to the minimalistic interface, the set background is visible only on "Scoreboard"(in a new tab). But since many users often turn to this very new tab, the question is quite relevant. Next, we will tell you how to install a ready-made background for Yandex.Browser or put a regular image to your liking.
There are two types of setting a background image: choosing an image from the built-in gallery or setting your own. As mentioned earlier, splash screens for Yandex.Browser are divided into animated and static ones. Each user can use special backgrounds tailored to the browser, or install their own.
Through the settings of the web browser, you can install both ready-made wallpapers and your own picture. The developers have provided all their users with a gallery with really beautiful and unpretentious images of nature, architecture and other objects. The list is updated periodically, if necessary, you can turn on the appropriate notification. It is possible to activate the daily change of images to random or on a specific topic.
For images set manually as a background, there are no such settings. In fact, the user simply needs to select the appropriate image from the computer and install it. Read more about each of these installation methods in our separate article at the link below.
Quick background changer "Scoreboard" is to use the context menu. Let's say you find a picture that you like. It does not even need to be downloaded to a PC and then installed through the Yandex.Browser settings. Just right-click on it and from the context menu select "Set as background in Yandex.Browser".
If you cannot call the context menu, then the picture is copy-protected.
Standard advice for this method is to choose high-quality, large images that are at least the resolution of your screen (for example, 1920x1080 for PC monitors or 1366x768 for laptops). If the site does not display the image size, you can view it by opening the file in a new tab.
The size will be indicated in brackets in the address bar.
If you hover your mouse over a tab with an image (it must also be open in a new tab), you will see its size in a pop-up text hint. This is true for files with long names, due to which the resolution numbers are not visible.
Small pictures will be automatically stretched. Animated images (GIF and others) cannot be installed, only static ones.
We have considered all possible ways to set a background in Yandex.Browser. I would like to add that if you have previously used Google Chrome and want to install themes from its online extension store, then, alas, this cannot be done. All new versions of Yandex.Browser, although they install themes, do not display them on "Scoreboard" and in the interface as a whole.
