Yandex Browser

I test a lot of browsers, but I keep using Yandex as my main browser for years now. It's clean looking and supports all Opera/Chrome extensions. It's fast and has some features built in. It's based on Chrome/Opera, but has a different, I think more convenient, user interface. Additional features: Turbo (compresses images & videos for slow connections), Protect: secures open wifi connections and goes into secure mode (no plugins etc), if you do banking. Reading mode, duplicate downloads recognition (you can choose to open instead of re-download) - in Chrome you automatically get duplicates. Animated background pictures. It has a real user support. You can ask questions and get response. Yandex ZEN is for News and works well also in German. I also use the Android version, which can be used in combination with AdGuard. I consider it the best browser for Android and I tried a lot. Downsides: The German translation is existent, but not very good. Currently they don't have a community driven language program, so there are some weird German words in settings. But most of the translation is quite okay. There are also some not useful things like the voice assistant and some interfaces to Russian services; but you can turn this off. Recently they turned the home button option off (or I didn't find it) and the forward button doesn't always appear. But this are minor things. Generally I would recommend everyone to al least test it. :-)

It has been distributed as bundleware numerous times. That can't be a good sign.

It's really good, I just can't seem to see my extensions in the extensions bar, so I can't turn them on for incognito. If someone knows how to show the Extensions in the extensions place, please do tell me.

Comparing it with Chrome, the strongest aspect of Yandex Browser is its interface, especially when it comes to video.

• Picture-in-picture appeared earlier than in Chrome and has automatic activation, auto-switching of videos, control elements, a more convenient interface, scrolling, volume control, and more.
• Video translation: using neural networks, it can translate and voice-over videos.
• Brief summary of videos using GPT-based technology.

Tabs:

• Ability to control music and videos from different tabs and quickly switch to such a tab.
• Quick search within tabs.
• Tab grouping and pinning.
• Content preview.

Other features:

• Convenient page search (with errors and inaccuracies) with multiple highlighting of the found text.
• Ability to scroll the page up, and then back to where you were reading.
• Reading mode.
• Real-time page translation algorithm.
• Word translation on hover with a hotkey or double-click.

Unfortunately, in Russia, companies are obliged by law to store data in the country and provide it to the Federal Security Service (FSB) without notifying the user and upon the first demand. Therefore, for politically active citizens of any country, using it may be unsafe, despite all the positive features I listed earlier.

Já testei vários navegadores antes e depois do yandex e ainda acho que o russo é o melhor. Uso no celular e no PC, tenho vários perfis e cada um com senhas e favoritos acessíveis, as senhas são protegidas por uma senha-mestre e há muitas utilidades que se tornaram essenciais para mim como o tradutor de páginas (ótimo, baseado no Yandex Translate) e email (do yandex que é excelente) e páginas de fundo. Já o uso há mais de 6 anos e só tenho elogios, o motor de busca yandex é muito superior ao google, bing e duckduckgo.

Basicly russian google chrome. Perfect for a "boomer user", installing for your mothers laptop:

• fast
• superclean, no additional bs sidebars
• google chrome store compatible
• beautiful start screen and browser design in general
• has a laptop powersaving mode

Just make sure you install some proper privacy plugins, and mom is good to go.

it supports Linux, and has a lot of functions I like, like PiP player and click to go to top