Yandex Browser 17+

Amazing underdog browser

This browser does many things right: it was the first one to place navigation bar on the bottom, it’s controls are intuitive and easy, and the settings are rich. I love how tabs close and originator tabs come in focus when there is no more history going backwards. Unfortunately, this functionality does not yet exist for the swipe gesture. Also, I would love to have more swipe functionality akin to Safari.

UPDATE: What I meant by swipe functionality was the following. When I browse web pages back and forth, I like to swipe my finger from left to right to go back in history and from right to left to go forward. The browser does support this functionality. Unfortunately, when there is no more history to go backwards, you cannot swipe and close the page, but you can press the blank back button on the control panel for that effect. I would like this functionality be available with swiping also. Additionally, in Safari you can see all open tabs by swiping upwards from the control panel, but in Yandex browser you cannot: only pressing all tabs button works.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for great, inspiring feedback and your suggestions! It is important for us to know what users want. Your feedback will help our team understand what is worth working on 😊!

Does almost everything I want

I’ve been using Yandex browser for several months and have almost but not quite stopped using Safari entirely. I love several features it has that Safari simply doesn’t do, in particular searching for related images, and translation to other languages. In regard to the latter, I would love Yandex browser even more if the translation was PERSISTENT until turned off. That is, if I tell it to translate a page to english, then I follow a link somewhere else from that page, and another from there, and so on, it shouldn’t put me through the hassle to set to translate to english over and over and over; once should be enough. (Sadly, it doesn’t translate audio at all, or dub in subtitles, so Вован и Лексус videos aren’t much good to me.) Update: developer replies to other reviews say to go to Settings / Yandex / Language and set it to english; it’s already set to that, and it changes how the browser talks to me, but has no effect on translation of web pages. The help page says to turn on “Automatic page translation” but there’s no such option.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback! We are very glad that you are satisfied! Could you please send us a screenshot illustrating no auto-translate in browser settings using the feedback form: browser menu → «Settings» → «Contact us»? We'll try to help!

Finally a REAL search engine that isn’t censored!

Finally I can actually get real and “uncensored” search results instead of extreme far left wing propaganda!! I despise Google now! Half of the page is full of ads and the rest is filled with search results tailored to googles woke agenda and narratives. WHY would anyone want to use search engines that aren’t real search engines? Yandex is just as fast and has more REAL results without the fake “fact checking” articles all over the place. It’s a shame so many people don’t realize how little respect Google has for people as if we are not capable of reading all the information out there and determining what we believe. They think it’s “their” right to chose for us which search result. I’m thrilled to have a legitimate option now! We can even get real Russian news!!! Not the lies that are being fed us. Try it!!