Yandex Browser
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Yandex Browser (Russian: Яндекс Браузер) is a freeware web browser[5] developed by the Russian technology corporation Yandex that uses the Blink web browser engine and is based on the Chromium open source project.[6] The browser checks webpage security with the Yandex security system and checks downloaded files with Kaspersky Anti-Virus.[6][7] The browser also uses Opera Software's Turbo technology to speed web browsing on slow connections.[8]
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Developer(s) | Yandex |
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Initial release | 1 October 2012; 11 years ago (2012-10-01) |
Stable release(s) [±] | |
23.11.2.771 (December 7, 2023; 5 months ago (2023-12-07)[1])
21.5.1.845 (June 2, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-06-02)[2])
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Written in | C++, JavaScript |
Engine | Blink |
Operating system | [4] |
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[5] |
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%,[9] while it is less popular in most other countries, e.g. in Ukraine fourth at 4.45%[10] and globally has less share than Internet Explorer (which is ninth at 0.64%).