How to install extensions in mobile "Yandex. Browser "for Android
Android / / December 19, 2019
In the mobile version of "Yandex. Browser "recently became possible to install extensions. We tell how to do it and why it is needed.
Functionality desktop browsers largely depends on the installed extensions. However, in the mobile versions of the opportunity, as a rule, it is disabled. This is to save system resources, an excess of which the mobile equipment could not boast of until recently.
Modern smartphones in its capabilities are not inferior to desktops and it can cope with the "heavy" programs. Developers "Yandex. Browser "first paid attention to it and decided to give users the ability to use extensions and a mobile version of their program.
To install the extension you just need to open the main menu and select "Add-ons". You will be redirected to a special page extensions, where the bottom should click on the link to go to the online catalog.
After you select and install the necessary extensions to you, they will appear on the special page, which we mentioned just above. Here, if necessary, you can change the add-ons settings, temporarily disable or delete them.
In desktop browsers extensions icons usually displayed on the toolbar. The mobile version of a place for them, of course, was not found, but the developers, "Yandex. Browser "find a way out. All icons comfortably fit on the menu "Extras" and are available in literally two touches. Some of them are also able to display the required information directly on top of the open page. For example, Ghostery shows the number of blocked floating elements using icons.
Installing the extensions to the mobile version of the browser will help you not only give him the missing functionality, but also significantly save space in the device memory. Many of the available add-ons can completely replace conventional additions, but at the same time weigh considerably less. For example, Pocket mobile client has a size of 36.6 MB and the addition takes only 1.5 MB. A popular password manager Last Pass weighs 31.54 MB, while the addition requires only 18.3 MB.
I want to draw your attention that not yet all extensions of the directory can work in the mobile version of "Yandex. Browser. " Therefore, it is your responsibility to try and experiment. Write to us in the comments which of the extensions you have managed to launch a mobile version of your browser.