Yandex Browser
Yandex Browser (Russian: Яндекс Браузер) is a freeware web browser developed by the Russian technology corporation Yandex that uses the Blink web browser engine and is based on the Chromium open source project. The browser checks webpage security with the Yandex security system and checks downloaded files with Kaspersky Anti-Virus. The browser also uses Opera Software's Turbo technology to speed web browsing on slow connections.
| Developer(s) | Yandex |
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| Initial release | 1 October 2012 |
| Stable release(s) [±] | |
23.11.2.771 (December 7, 2023)
21.5.1.845 (June 2, 2021)
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| Written in | C++, JavaScript |
| Engine | Blink |
| Operating system | |
| Platform | ARM, IA-32, x86-64 |
| Available in | 14 languages |
List of languages English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek. | |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | browser |
The browser is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
The browser is the second most popular desktop web browser (the third as a mobile browser) in Russia at 21.5%, while it is less popular in most other countries, e.g. in Ukraine fourth at 4.45% and globally has less share than Internet Explorer (which is ninth at 0.64%).