Yandex visual bookmarks for Google Chrome. Visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox - old version

Visual bookmarks allow you to quickly navigate between web pages on the Internet. Many of you have your browser home page set to a website. Most often, such a page is the site of the search engine Yandex or Google.

In order to go to a specific site, you need to enter its name in the address bar, and if this site is saved in your bookmarks, then you need to select it in the bookmarks bar, or from the browser settings menu you should go to the “Bookmarks” item , and select the desired site from the bookmarks located there.

To perform these actions, you need to make quite a lot of body movements. To simplify launching the desired site from bookmarks, special add-ons (extensions) for the Mozilla Firefox browser have been developed.

Such an add-on installed in the browser becomes the home page. Bookmark windows appear on this page with a thumbnail image of the site you have added to your bookmarks. The number of such windows with bookmarks is regulated in the add-on settings. This makes it much more convenient to go to the desired site simply by clicking on its image.

The most famous add-ons of this type are Speed Dial and Fast Dial. Now I’ll tell you about two more similar add-ons: Yandex.Bar with visual bookmarks and Super Start.

In this article, you can read about a review of old visual bookmarks. The link to download the old version of the extension has been removed from the Yandex website, and now only the new version of the Visual Bookmarks from Yandex add-on can be downloaded from there.

From the article you will learn how to install the visual bookmarks extension file in the Mozilla Firefox browser. In the old version of the Visual Bookmarks extension for Mozilla Firefox, the add-on settings remained the same, as they are described in this article.

Visual Yandex bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox

To open visual bookmarks, you will need to click on the “Firefox” => “New Tab” => “New Tab” button (or the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl” + “T”). After this, a new tab appears in the browser - “Visual Bookmarks”.

To configure the extension, in the lower right corner you will need to click on the “Settings” button.

In the Visual Bookmarks: Settings window, you can select a background image for the page. In this window, you can choose when to update it, or never update this image. If you click on the "Add" button, you can upload a new background image from your computer.

Here you can also select the number of bookmarks horizontally and vertically (a total of 48 bookmarks are supported). You can add any new background image by clicking on the “Add” button and upload it from your computer.

To enter new visual bookmarks, click on the rectangular transparent bookmark. After this, the “Edit visual bookmark” window appears.

In this window, you must enter the name of the site that you want to add as a visual bookmark. You can also enter the name of the visual bookmark, but this is not necessary. After that, click on the “Save” button.

A visual bookmark with my site has been added. You can move bookmarks from place to place, edit them, update them, and delete them.

In order to make “Visual Bookmarks” the start page when you start the browser, you need to click on the “Firefox” => “Settings” => “Settings” button. In the “Basic” tab, in the “Home page” line, enter the expression “yafd:tabs”, and then click on the “OK” button.

Now when you open the Mozilla Firefox browser, the home page will be Visual Bookmarks.

Super Start Supplement

In order to install the Super Start add-on in your browser, you need to click on the “Firefox” => “Add-ons” => “Get add-ons” button. In the “Search among add-ons” field, you must enter the expression “Super Start”.

On the add-on page, click on the “Add to Firefox” button => “Install now” => “Restart now”. The Super Start extension is installed in the Mozilla Firefox browser.

To configure the installed add-on, you will need to click on the “Firefox” => “Add-ons” => “Extensions” => “Super Start” button.

In the Super Start extension field, click on the “Settings” button. In the general tab, check the box next to “Make Super Start your home page.”

In the display settings, you can change the number of “Windows in a row” (maximum number - 17) and “Minimum number of rows” (maximum number - 10). You can select the number of windows only horizontally; when adding new bookmarks, their number will increase automatically.

Check the box next to “Align page height as much as possible” so that the bookmarks fit on the monitor screen. You can check the “Display bookmarks” option. After this, you will need to click on the “OK” button.

In the view settings tab, you can check the box next to “Use your display settings.” After this, the control buttons of the “View Settings” tab are activated.

When you click on the “Select Image” button, an Explorer window will open, with its help you can select and upload an image from your computer. Also here you can “Delete the image” you have uploaded. If you don't upload an image, you can leave the background transparent or use one of the suggested background colors.

After restarting the Firefox browser, the Super Start extension became the home page.

In the upper right corner of the page, when you click on the colored round buttons, the background of the page will change to the corresponding color if you have not uploaded your image. To the right of the windows with bookmarks there is a button in the shape of a triangle. When you click on it, you can make your notes in the window that appears. You can then copy these entries into any text editor. When you press it again, the notes window disappears.

In the upper right corner of the page there is a “Bookmarks” button (if you check the box next to “Display in bookmarks in add-on settings”) and a “Recently closed” button.

Clicking on the "Bookmarks" button will open a list of your bookmarks, and clicking on the "Recently Closed" button will show you your recently closed bookmarks.

To add a site to your bookmarks page, you need to click on the corresponding window.

After that, the “Enter URL” window appears to enter the site address. When I entered the name of the site, hints with the site address appeared and I selected the full name of the site from the hint.

If you want, you can select an image from your computer that will be displayed instead of the site page image. Here you can give a name to the site, but this is not necessary. After that, click on the “OK” button.

At the top of the window with a site thumbnail there are control icons. Clicking the "Open in New Tab" icon will open the site in a new tab. By clicking on the corresponding buttons you can “Customize”, “Update” or “Delete site”.

The add-on adds sites in horizontal order, but you can move sites to any window.

In order for this site to open in a new window when you go to a site selected from the visual bookmarks, you must click on the small “Open in new tab” icon on the site page thumbnail, otherwise a new web page will open in this tab. This is not entirely convenient when using this extension. It would be more convenient if the site opened in a new tab simply by clicking on the window with the site’s thumbnail.

This is what the home page looks like with the background image loaded from my computer.

I liked the Super Start add-on more than Visual Bookmarks from Yandex because in Super Start you can create a larger number of windows for thumbnails of visual bookmarks, and also because the bookmarks in this extension look more beautiful.

In order to disable or remove an add-on, you must click on the “Firefox” button => “Add-ons” => “Extensions” => here you select the appropriate add-on and click on the “Disable” or “Delete” button. After restarting the browser, the extension will be removed from the Mozilla Firefox browser.

Conclusions of the article

Review of visual bookmark extensions for the Mozilla Firefox browser: Yandex and Super Start visual bookmarks.

After the release of its browser, Yandex updated many of its applications and services. The update also affected the popular Visual Bookmarks add-on for various browsers. Many users did not like the update and want to return to the old version of Yandex visual bookmarks.

The new is not always better than the old; many did not like this browser add-on update. Many users were comfortable using older versions of visual bookmarks, and there were many regrets about this.

Since this pressing issue worries many users, I decided to write this article on the topic - how to return visual bookmarks. Now I will write how to install old visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox.

An article on visual bookmarks, including visual bookmarks from Yandex, has already been published on my website. I admit that I did not immediately understand the meaning of the questions asked to me, which included an extension for Mozilla Firefox.

On my computer, I use another extension for visual bookmarks - . It satisfies me more than visual bookmarks from Yandex, but many people like them, which is why I am writing this article.

After installing the extension again, the old version of the visual bookmarks add-on will work in your browser.

To install the old version of the visual bookmarks extension, you will need to download the file that contains the old version of visual bookmarks to your computer.

This was done because Yandex can remove the previous version of the add-on at any time after it releases another version of the extension.

old visual bookmarks download

Extension Visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox old version, downloaded to your computer, is a file with the extension “.xpi”. Now all that remains is to solve the question - how to return visual bookmarks.

How to get old visual bookmarks back

Before installing the add-on, you should remove new visual bookmarks from Yandex if they were installed on your computer.

To do this, click on the “Firefox” => “Add-ons” => “Extensions” button. In this window, you should find the “Visual Bookmarks” extension and click on the “Delete” button to remove this version of the add-on from your browser.

After the new version of the extension has been removed, you can proceed to installing the old Yandex visual bookmarks extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser.

To install the extension in the Firefox browser, the visual bookmarks add-on file “YandexVizualBookmarks.xpi” must be dragged with the mouse into the open browser window.

After this, the “Program Installation” window will open in the Mozilla Firefox browser window. In this window you will need to click on the “Install Now” button.

Then you will need to click on the “Restart now” button in the pop-up window near the browser address bar.

After restarting the Mozilla Firefox browser, you need to click on the “Firefox” => “Add-ons” => “Extensions” button. In the “Manage add-ons” tab, in the list of extensions you need to find the “Visual Bookmarks” extension, and then click on the “More details” link.

In the “Visual Bookmarks” tab, you should activate the “Disabled” radio button. This is required to prevent the extension from automatically updating to a new version.

After these steps, you need to click on the “Firefox” => “Settings” => “Settings” button. In the “Settings” window, in the home page field, you will need to enter the expression “yafd:tabs”, and then click on the “OK” button.

After restarting the browser, your home page will open - old visual bookmarks for Mazila.

You can customize visual bookmarks from Yandex as you wish. To do this, click on the “Settings” button in the lower right corner.

In the “Visual Bookmarks: Settings” window, you can select the update time for thumbnail thumbnails of visual bookmarks, select the optimal number of visual bookmarks to be displayed. To replace the background image, you will need to select an image from those offered, or upload it from your computer.

To upload a background image from your computer, click on the “Add” button.

In the Explorer window, you will need to find and select the desired image by clicking on the “Open” button.

If you need some more settings, then you can check the boxes next to the items for additional settings - for example, “Display the bookmarks bar.” You can change the number of bookmarks in the browser window. After completing the settings, click on the “OK” button.

To add new visual bookmarks, you need to click on the empty bookmark window with the left mouse button, and in the “Edit visual bookmark” window, select one of the recently visited sites to add, or enter the address of the site that you want to add as a visual bookmark.

After adding a new visual bookmark, you need to click on the “Save” button.

Visual bookmarks can be moved to the desired location and swapped.

Added visual bookmarks can be “Edit”, “Update” or “Delete” by clicking on the corresponding button in the upper right corner of the thumbnail.

Solving the problem of displaying visual bookmarks

After updating the Mozilla Firefox browser, the old version of visual bookmarks stopped working. This problem can be solved by installing a specific version of the browser.

You will need to use Firefox browser version up to and including 25.0.1. On this version of the browser, old visual bookmarks work normally. Download this version of the Mozilla Firefox browser from the official website, and then disable automatic updates in the browser so that the browser does not automatically update to the new version.

Conclusions of the article

The user can restore old Yandex visual bookmarks for the Mozilla Fifefox browser to a specific browser version.

How to get back old Visual Bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox (video)

The Mozilla Firefox web browser has a special bookmarks bar where users can save links to the most needed and most frequently visited sites. However, if a lot of such tabs accumulate, they no longer fit on the panel and it becomes not very convenient to use them. To solve such problems, there are so-called visual bookmarks for the Mozilla Firefox browser. This article describes how to install the visual bookmarks bar and the basics of working with it: saving new items, customizing the interface, and so on.

Unfortunately, the Mozilla Firefox developers did not implement visual bookmarks in their program, like in Yandex or Opera. However, users can install special extensions that add this functionality. Since Mozilla Firefox is quite popular, many different plugins are released for it.

To familiarize yourself with the range of applications and install the ones you need, users can use the standard catalog of plugins for Firefox. To do this you will need to do the following:

Immediately after installation, the new application will be ready to use.

Visual bookmarks from Yandex

One of the most popular browser extension developers is Yandex. It has released a whole set of applications for browsers - Yandex Elements. This product has its own website, so you don't have to waste time searching for it in the catalogue.

Follow the link https://element.yandex.ru/ to the main page of the resource. Here you can save and install a complete set of all Elements. It includes:

"Smart line" from
Yandex Advisor for online stores.
Plugin for working with cloud storage.
Protection against phishing and viruses.
Music player.
Weather widget.
Quick access to interactive maps "YandexTraffic".
Mail client.
Translator.
And, of course, an express panel for bookmarks.

If you do not need all these applications, you need to click on the “What's Included” link, which is located at the bottom of the screen. In the drop-down list, select the “Visual Bookmarks” section. Click on the yellow “Install” button, which is located at the very bottom of the page that opens.

In the pop-up window that opens, you need to click “Allow” to begin the installation. After this, everything you need will be downloaded to your personal computer, and you can get to work.

Saving your favorite sites using the Yandex service

Immediately after installation, an express panel will appear at your disposal. It will be visible whenever you open a new tab (instead of a blank page). By default, this interface contains a search bar from Yandex and a field of 12 cells in which selected sites are located in the form of tiles.

The most important part of the job is saving your favorite websites. To do this, you need to click on the transparent “+Add bookmark” button at the very bottom of the screen. A special interface for adding will open. Here users can add a new tab from the list of popular or recently visited resources, or simply enter the address of the desired site.

The article describes how to install and use Yandex visual bookmarks for various browsers.

Navigation

For more convenient work with browsers and the Internet, special visual bookmarks have been developed. It's no secret that bookmarks are saved links that we will need in the future, and which we can easily navigate to with one click.

Visual bookmarks, in turn, are the same links, but outwardly they look like small pictures with an image that you can choose yourself, for example, a logo “ VK", if the link leads to the site " In contact with" These visual bookmarks are usually located in each new browser tab.

Visual bookmarks from the company " Yandex"are very popular and are suitable for different browsers, which is one of their advantages. In this review we will talk about visual bookmarks " Yandex» for browsers « Yandex.Browser», « Google Chrome", "M Ozilla Firefox"and how to use them: download, install, export, restore, save, delete.

But it is worth noting that visual bookmarks " Yandex" for all browsers are almost identical in functionality, so the instructions for " Google Chrome" will be exactly the same as the instructions for " Mozilla Firefox", and about " Yandex.Browser"We'll talk separately.

How to install and use Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox?

To set visual bookmarks in " Mozilla Firefox" (or in " Google Chrome") use these instructions:

Follow this link, scroll down the page and click on " Install»

Yandex visual bookmarks for Yandex.Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, how to download the extension and install, how to export from Yandex.Browser Bookmarks have disappeared in Yandex.Browser, how to restore

Next, in the window that opens, click on “ Allow", ignoring the message that " Mozilla" blocks this installation.

Next, click on “ Install»

That's all. The installation of the extension for visual bookmarks in “ Mozilla Firefox» completed. Now let's move on to the question of how to use these bookmarks. To do this, read one more instruction:

In a new browser tab you will see the visual bookmarks themselves, as well as the search engine (from " Yandex") above them.

Next we will figure out how to work with all this. Press " Add a bookmark" With this action you will save the link you need.

A window will open, at the top of which you can add any link that you would like to save and access in the future.

After that, in visual bookmarks you will see this saved link as one new visual bookmark, as shown in the screenshot.

But that is not all. Please note that if you move the mouse cursor over any of the visual bookmarks, icons will be activated in the upper right part, each with its own function.

If you click on the gear icon, the settings window for this visual bookmark will open. Here you can change the tab address.

If you click on the cross icon, you will delete the visual tab forever.

Let us now explain the meaning of the open lock icon. The fact is that you can swap bookmarks and drag them wherever you want in the list of all bookmarks. To do this, simply click on the bookmark with the mouse, hold the button and drag the bookmark. If you want the bookmark to be fixed and never change its position, then click on the open lock icon (the lock will close).

By the way, it is worth mentioning that above the search engine line you can see the dollar exchange rate, the weather forecast and even the state of traffic jams on the streets.

Now let's look at the extension settings. At the bottom right of your visual bookmarks you will see a button Settings" Click on it.

You will be taken to the settings window. There are quite a lot of settings for visual bookmarks, so we will give some of them as an example, so that you can clearly understand the issue. For example, go to the section " Bookmarks" In these settings you can change the number of bookmarks on the visual bookmarks page. You can also change the appearance of your bookmarks here.

A little lower you can change the background of the visual bookmarks. Here your imagination can run wild, select any photo from your computer and upload it.

Below you will see a whole range of settings. Here you can, for example, remove the search bar from visual bookmarks or set it back. You can also remove or add the information panel and the bookmarks bar itself.

As for the remaining settings (export bookmarks, import bookmarks and many others), they are as easy to understand as the settings described above. You can remove the visual settings add-on from the browser in the same way as any other add-on " Mozilla Firefox».

Visual bookmarks in Yandex.Browser

We have already said that instructions for installing and using visual bookmarks " Yandex» are the same in other browsers. It is worth adding that in “ Yandex.Browser"no need to install visual bookmarks" Yandex", since they are already built into this browser by default. Differences in visual bookmarks " Yandex.Browser"from, for example, the same bookmarks in " Google Chrome"will be insignificant. Let's talk about it.

This is what similar bookmarks look like in “ Google Chrome»:

And this is what they look like in " Yandex.Browser»:

As we can see, the differences are small and are as follows:

In other browsers, the add-on has a native toolbar (bookmarks, address bar, extension icons), and in “ Yandex.Browser"It changes in every new open tab.
Visual bookmark search engine « Yandex.Browser» also acts as an address bar
Additions in the form of weather forecast, dollar exchange rate and traffic jams in " Yandex.Browser" are not available by default, they can be set in the settings as desired.
Visual bookmark settings « Yandex.Browser» differ from similar ones in other browsers
Many buttons (" Downloads», « Applications», « Bookmarks") in the visual bookmarks of Yandex.Browser will be located in a different place.