Yandex Browser for Nix(OS)

With automatic hash updates, I hope.

• yandex-browser-stable provides the yandex-browser executable
• yandex-browser-beta provides the yandex-browser-beta executable

Try the IPFS backed web3 branch if you do not plan to track the browser updates.

Note that this flake imports nixpkgs with allowUnfree = true and adds both provided browsers as permittedInsecurePackages.

Installation

Command line

1. Using nix profile:

   # Stable version
   nix profile install github:Teu5us/nix-yandex-browser#yandex-browser-stable
   
   # Beta version
   nix profile install github:Teu5us/nix-yandex-browser#yandex-browser-beta

2. Temporary shell using nix shell:

   # Stable version
   nix shell github:Teu5us/nix-yandex-browser#yandex-browser-stable
   
   # Beta version
   nix shell github:Teu5us/nix-yandex-browser#yandex-browser-beta

Configuration

1. Add to your flake inputs:

   {
     inputs.nixpkgs.url = "...";
     inputs.yandex-browser.url = "github:Teu5us/nix-yandex-browser";
     inputs.yandex-browser.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
   }

   Run nix flake lock --update-input yandex-browser before rebuild to get new versions and hashes.

2. Make sure your inputs are passed to config:

   • Use specialArgs for NixOS
   • Use extraSpecialArgs for home-manager

3. Install the browser:

   • Using packages:

     {
       # With home-manager
       home.packages = [
         inputs.yandex-browser.packages.x86_64-linux.yandex-browser-stable
         inputs.yandex-browser.packages.x86_64-linux.yandex-browser-beta
       ];
     
       # With configuration.nix
       environment.systemPackages = [
         inputs.yandex-browser.packages.x86_64-linux.yandex-browser-stable
         inputs.yandex-browser.packages.x86_64-linux.yandex-browser-beta
       ];
     }

   • Using modules:

     { config, inputs, ... }: {
     
       imports = [
          # for NixOS
          inputs.yandex-browser.nixosModules.system
     
          # for home-manager
          inputs.yandex-browser.nixosModules.home-manager
       ];
     
       programs.yandex-browser = {
         enable = true;
         # default is "stable", you can also have "both"
         package = "beta";
         extensions = config.programs.chromium.extensions;
     
         # NOTE: the following are only for nixosModule
         extensionInstallBlocklist = [
           # disable the "buggy" extension in beta
           "imjepfoebignfgmogbbghpbkbcimgfpd"
         ];
         homepageLocation = "https://ya.ru";
         extraOpts = {
           "HardwareAccelerationModeEnabled" = true;
           "DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled" = false;
           "DeveloperToolsAvailability" = 0;
           "CrashesReporting" = false;
           "StatisticsReporting" = false;
           "DistrStatisticsReporting" = false;
           "UpdateAllowed" = false;
           "ImportExtensions" = false;
           "BackgroundModeEnabled" = false;
           "PasswordManagerEnabled" = false;
           "TranslateEnabled" = false;
           "WordTranslatorDisabled" = true;
           "YandexCloudLanguageDetectEnabled" = false;
           "CloudDocumentsDisabled" = true;
           "DefaultGeolocationSetting" = 1;
           "NtpAdsDisabled" = true;
           "NtpContentDisabled" = true;
         };
       };
     
     }

     Make sure to avoid any policies to force install extensions, as those will only prevent extensions from being installed.