Yandex extension “Visual Bookmarks” for Firefox. Visual bookmarks for Google Chrome

Visual bookmarks is an extension with which you can go to sites you frequently visit in one click. Bookmarks are saved as thumbnail images and are available when you open a new browser tab. In addition, Visual Bookmarks allow you to:

Add a visual bookmark

By default, the new tab page displays the sites you visit most often. This list is constantly changing.

You can add the sites you need manually, in which case they will always be on the screen. To add a visual bookmark:

Open a new tab.

On the right under visual bookmarks, click the button Add a bookmark.

Enter the website address. You can also select a site from the Popular or Recently visited.

If you want to change the site name on the widget, click the button Edit description.

Edit list of visual bookmarks

To reposition or edit a bookmark, hover your mouse over the bookmark. In the upper right corner of the bookmark you will see icons that you can use to:

Customize Visual Bookmarks

Also on the new tab, you can further customize the extension: change the number of bookmarks and their appearance on the page, as well as select the background and make a backup copy of the bookmarks.

To open the settings menu:

Open a new tab.

On the right, under visual bookmarks, click the Settings button.

You can change the following settings:

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. The Yandex bar, which I once wrote about in some detail, has ceased to exist. It had quite a few useful options and it had every right to exist. But not everything is so sad, in fact, something simple happened.

The panel has become more compact, lighter and less intrusive, but the essence remains the same, especially since the bar can be easily updated with elements. A similar situation with renaming occurs with other Internet giants, for example, the free mail service, which has not earned a very good reputation.

Personally, I liked the bar most of all for such an option as visual bookmarks, which Yandex added to Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer for easy navigation through the resources you most visit. By the way, I recently found a worthy alternative - which is in many ways superior to the brainchild of Yandex.

On the way to your cherished goal, they will try to intercept you and persuade you to do so, but you are persistent and will not succumb to provocation, although I really liked him in his current incarnation.

Set visual bookmarks will be no more difficult than any other window application. The only thing is that at the first step of the installation wizard you will be asked (which is nice) to disable all additional gadgets, namely the default search, and, what’s especially nice, you can disable the spy module, which collects data for the RuNet mirror about which sites we need What do you like and what don't:

It is clear that the search engine needs this data to build more relevant results, but not everyone likes being spied on, even with good intentions. Next, the installer will reconfigure your browser and it will start with a new (blank) page open:

The screenshot shows the appearance of the page with Yandex bookmarks for Google Chrome and I like them the most, because they practically duplicate the Opera Express panel, to which I am very accustomed.

When you move the mouse cursor to an empty rectangle, a “+” sign will appear on it, by clicking on which you will be able to create a new tab based on pages previously opened in the browser or simply by entering the desired URL and the name of the future bookmark in the appropriate fields:

Then you can freely drag it with the mouse to any convenient place, which easily allows you to sort the sites you need in the sequence you need. In addition, when you move the mouse cursor to any of the created tabs at the top of it, you will see a control panel with four buttons:

Using them, you can delete a bookmark, update the screenshot of the bookmarked site, change something in the settings (assign a different URL, change the name or set a different screenshot update period), and also hide it. I didn’t understand what the last option could be used for, because in the place of the hidden tab there still remains a hole, and if you move the cursor to it, it will appear.

At the bottom of the page with Yandex visual tabs in Google Chrome there is a “Settings” button, which will allow you to change the appearance of the panel to suit your preferences (change the possible number of rectangles, add a background and set the refresh period for screenshots).

Visual tabs for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer

For Mozilla Firefox and Internet explorer they look the same and you can download them all from the same link:

But, in my opinion, the new version of Firefox bookmarks from Yandex is significantly inferior in convenience to the tabs for Google Chrome described just above. This thing looks somehow more clumsy and stupid, despite the fact that the old version for Firefox did not have such shortcomings (the best is the enemy of the good). Although, the taste and color... Moreover, with old bookmarks.

The image of the tab is now not a screenshot of the site being laid, but some of its logo, which most often represents the name taken from this very site. The color scheme of the tabs is also selected based on the shades available on the site:

The new version of visual bookmarks for Mazila Firefox bears the proud number 2.5 and allows you not only to manually add new sites, but also inserts your most frequently visited resources into the panel. Is it convenient? Personally, I don't, but maybe you'll like it. The advantage is that immediately after installing tabs in Firefox and IE, you will see the Yandex panel filled with the sites you most frequently visited before.

When you move the mouse cursor over any of them, you can pin it using the corresponding icon. Why is this necessary? Well, so that when more popular resources invade, this particular tab would remain in place:

The gear-shaped button is used to change the site to which this tab will lead:

In the new version of the express panel for Mazila and Donkey, I did not understand how they can be moved and sorted. Dragging with the mouse does not solve this problem. To add new tabs to the sites you need, just click on the “Settings” button in the lower right corner.

As a result, a window will open where you can set the number of bookmarks in the panel and change the background image. If you click on the “Advanced options” button, you can also disable the spyware module by unchecking the corresponding box.

But all the same, the new versions of visual bookmarks for Mazila and IE left a purely negative impression (perhaps I didn’t understand or get into something), so I don’t use them yet, but the version of Yandex tabs for Google Chrome, on the contrary, makes me sad only positive emotions. Probably different developers worked on them. If you want to return to the past, then use the link given just above to version 1.5).

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The additional panel that was installed in the most popular browsers called “Yandex bar” has ceased to exist. Its main goal was to make programs for viewing websites more functional and comfortable to use. Now its developers are proposing to switch to a more modern and advanced version, called . The new version of the panel contains many extensions, among which “Visual Bookmarks” stands out. I will talk about this browser extension in this article. You can read about visual bookmarks for the Chrome browser.

Installing the extension

All available elements can be downloaded and installed individually or all at once by going to the website https://element.yandex.ru/.

After a quick download and installation, Firefox needs to be restarted, which is what I did. When I opened my browser, I saw a set of cute tiles with a large search bar at the top.

Advice! You can see the bookmarks page at any time by pressing Ctrl + T.

Setting up the extension

To change the parameters of visual bookmarks, there is a “Settings” button in the lower right corner of the browser window. Clicking on it, I saw a single setting that allows you to change the background of the page. Yandex has prepared several nice background pictures for its users and provided the opportunity to download new ones from their hard drive. If desired, the background image can be made permanent or changed after a certain time.

Extra options

Yandex bookmarks for Firefox also have additional settings available by clicking the “Other options” button. They allow:

• select the type of bookmarks;
• disable search bar;
  

  Advice! You can use the search engine in the address bar of your browser.

• enable or disable display of the panel;
• consent to the automatic sending of statistics;
• use contextual suggestions or make the open page home.

Arrangement of bookmarks on the page

On the new page, visual Yandex bookmarks for Mozilla look like small tiles. They are easy to move with the mouse:

1. Place the cursor over the desired bookmark.
2. Hold down the left mouse button and it will begin to move along with the cursor.
3. At the desired location, simply release the button.

The tile will remain where you placed it. In the upper right corner of each visual bookmark there are three buttons that allow you to change its settings. They are hidden from the user, and to see them the cursor must be moved to the right edge of the bookmark and held in place for a short time.

Pin, delete or edit

A button in the form of a lock allows you to unpin or pin Yandex bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox. This is very useful when there are a lot of popular resources and they are mixed automatically. Pinned bookmarks will always remain in their places.

By clicking on the gear-shaped button, an additional panel appeared in front of me, where I can change the site address, add or edit a description. Popular and recently visited pages are also available for viewing.


To quickly delete a bookmark, there is a third button in the form of a cross. Clicking on it, I saw a pop-up window confirming my actions. The developers took care of users and provided protection against accidental deletion of bookmarks. If you see a pop-up window with the question “Delete bookmark?”, but you did not intend to delete anything, then click on the “No” button and everything will remain as before.

Add a new bookmark

In order for a new site to appear on the page with visual bookmarks, you need to click on the “Add bookmark” button, which is located in the lower right corner. A panel will appear with a form for entering the site address. You can also enter a description by clicking on the “Edit Description” button.

I liked the ability to use a keyboard shortcut to navigate to the desired site. You need to count tiles from left to right, and select and navigate by simultaneously pressing the Alt key and the number corresponding to the serial number of the bookmark.

Yandex Elements offers other useful browser add-ons that are also worth your attention.

Today we will talk about visual bookmarks for browsers. I will tell you what they are, what they are for, how to install them in your browser, and why such bookmarks are better than regular text bookmarks.

Described below, step by step and in pictures, visual bookmarks work in the most popular Internet browsers today - Google Chrome and Mozilla. Naturally, all other browsers using the same engines (Blink - new Opera, Yandex.Browser, SRWare Iron... and Gecko - Pale Moon, CometBird, SeaMonkey...) also wonderfully and fully support this very necessary, high-quality addition.

Today I will also teach you how to save (and restore) your visual bookmarks, for example, in case of a sudden death of the operating system, as well as synchronize them between different browsers. Yes, you understood everything correctly - you can transfer (copy) these bookmarks from Google Chrome to Mozilla. We made a bookmark in one browser and it appeared in the second - very convenient and practical, I tell you.

What are visual bookmarks

Every browser has a bookmark feature. If you liked a site, you bookmarked it and you can return to it in a week or a year. Comfortable. But over time, dozens and even hundreds of these bookmarks accumulate - how not to get confused in them, how to remember what kind of site you saved a month ago?

Favicons (site icons) don’t help the situation much, as you can see, and these are only 11 bookmarks that I just made on purpose (since I don’t use this method of saving sites I like at all).

Browser manufacturers quickly came up with bookmark bars (usually located below the address bar). Not the best way out of the situation, it seems to me. You already know how I feel about different toolbars and panels, which steal workspace in browsers. And this did not make ordinary text bookmarks any more informative.

And here they come on stage visual bookmarks! These are not just bookmarks, but small images of the sites that you liked, their pictures...

You can also imagine them as windows on the Internet.

This is how they look in Mozilla Firefox 23.

Why are visual bookmarks better than regular text bookmarks?

With visual bookmarks, there is no need to search hundreds of lines for the small text of the page title - you see this page right away! Before your brain even has time to turn on, you have already found the desired bookmark and clicked on the picture to go to the site.

Visual bookmarks can be easily sorted into groups (tabs) - for example, “Movies”, “Cooking”, “Auto”, “Mom’s”, “Dad’s”...

You can also update, change, delete, add, move from group to group or higher and lower in the browser window... in short, sort and mock them as you please.

I think you get the point - such bookmarks are more informative, more convenient, more practical, more attractive... the usual and boring bookmarks built into the browser. They are simple, clearer!

What are visual bookmarks?

Visual bookmarks first appeared in the Opera browser (2007) and they were called Speed ​​Dial. Users liked this concept of saving popular pages so much that very soon all other browsers (except Internet Explorer, of course) acquired many add-ons and extensions that implement a similar function.

I have already described such additions in detail to you in the articles “ 6 Must-Have Mozilla Firefox Add-ons " And " Top extensions for Google Chrome » .

In addition to add-ons and extensions to browsers, entire visual bookmarking services have appeared on the Internet. For example, top-page and onlinezakladki. But, firstly, the method of distributing the first service is very reminiscent of forced imposition (yeah, remember Yandex.Bar?).

This is what they write about him on the Internet - “What kind of crap is this - top-page...”, “How to remove the sinister top-page from the home page...”, “[email protected]: help me how to remove the top-page...”, "How to remove top-page in Windows...". These are excerpts from the first page of search engine results for the query “top-page”!

The “prevalence” of this service is easily explained - money is paid for its advertising and positive reviews about it. They also contacted me and offered to describe it for a fee. Refused - reputation is more important than any money!

And secondly, all these services are very friendly with Yandex. All have a permanently built-in search bar on half the screen from this search engine! By the way, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that this is my attitude towards this company .

So, I'm not greedy - here at this link You will be taken to the visual bookmarks page from Yandex for Google Chrome. But! The number of settings (or rather the lack thereof) is simply amazing. You won’t be able to remove the search bar from half the screen, and a more or less decent view of the bookmarks is obtained only when the number of windows is 7 by 3 = 21. Only 21 bookmarks! No groups or tabs! You can, of course, set the maximum available number of bookmarks (48), but you won’t be able to view anything in them.

And here it is Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla . Here things are a little better - you can even remove the search bar (monstrous and frightening generosity from Yandex)! A little more variety of backgrounds... but only 25 windows for bookmarks! Of course, without groups and tabs!

So as not to deprive you of the opportunity to choose I provide a link to the review article about similar bookmarking services. Read, choose, swear, spit, delete and read on.

From all of the above, I think you understand that this is not our choice! What is ours like?

FVD Speed ​​Dial - the best visual bookmarks for the most popular browsers

Here's a great video description of this extension for Google Chrome...

You can download this extension via direct official link - it will be installed immediately in your Google Chrome.

As you can see from the video, this extension has a lot of settings, you can very easily customize it for yourself...

In the “View” setting, you can give your visual bookmarks a 3D effect.

You can customize the size and color of the fonts, set your own background color, or even insert any photo instead of the background ( here is a whole gallery of themes for FVD Speed ​​Dial), change the number of columns and the size of the windows. You can also bookmark the password!…

You can even make an additional widget panel, but I didn’t see the need for it ( There are few widgets and they are all “boring”) and disabled this feature.

On the left there is a panel with quick access to the services of the “good corporation” - I also disabled it in the settings, which can be found in the drop-down panel on the right and at the top...

...it can be hidden...

A window like this will appear in your bookmarks...

Click on it and take a picture of the site (screenshot) using your camera...

You can carry a camera by the green cross.

You can adjust your bookmarks at any time...

In the same window you can create new groups of bookmarks.

FVD Speed ​​Dials for Mozilla Firefox absolutely the same in settings and use - here is the link to this add-on .

Now the most necessary and important thing...

How to save and sync visual bookmarks between browsers

In order for the FVD Speed ​​Dials visual bookmarks to be the same in all your browsers, you need to install the extension EverSync for Google Chrome and addition EverSync for Mozilla Firefox .

Hello, friends! In today's article we will look at how to install visual bookmarks in the Mozilla Firefox browser, we will dwell in detail on those developed by Yandex and learn how to configure a panel with them in this web browser.

Unlike the Yandex and Opera browsers, in Mozilla they are not a built-in feature. Therefore, to install them in Mozilla, you will need to download and install one of the suitable extensions in the browser.

Setting visual bookmarks

The principle of installing different browser extensions is no different. Accordingly, following further recommendations, you can install any add-on in Mozilla Firefox, thus expanding the capabilities of your Internet browser. This could be, for example, a page translator or a widget for weather and mail.

If you are interested, read the article by following the link.

You can install the extension we are interested in in Mozilla Firefox using the browser add-on manager. To do this, click on the button with three horizontal lines in the upper right corner and select “Add-ons” from the drop-down list.

On the left side, go to the “Get Add-ons” tab.

To view all search results, scroll down to the bottom of the list and click on the “View 195 results” button (there may be a different number).

To find out more about the selected extension, click on the “Details” button next to it. To install the extension in the browser, click “Install”, and then, in the window that appears, confirm the installation. After this, you may need to restart the browser.

After installing the selected add-on, its icon will appear to the right of the address bar. The most popular are Speed ​​Dial, Fast Dial, Atavi. You can read more in another article on the site.

Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox

Now let's look at how to install them from Yandex in Mozilla Firefox. The required extension can be found in the list through the add-on manager, as described above. Then click Add to Firefox.

Another way to add them to Mozilla is to enter “visual bookmarks for mozilla” in the search bar. Under the first link, click "Install".

The Yandex Elements page, or, as they were called before, Yandex Bar, will open in a new tab. The set of these elements also includes visual bookmarks. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “Install” button.

Allow installation in the window that appears.

Once everything is downloaded, click Install, then restart your browser.

Setting up visual bookmarks

After installing the selected extension in the browser, you need to configure it in Mozilla Firefox.

First, let's see where they are. Click on the button with three horizontal stripes in the upper right corner and select “Add-ons”. Next, go to the “Extensions” tab. Here you will see a list of all extensions that are installed in the browser. At the previous point, in addition to what we needed, two more components were installed; if they are not needed, remove them by clicking on the corresponding button.

Let's move on to the settings. Let's look at this using the example of visual bookmarks from Yandex. Open a new tab in Mozilla by clicking on the plus sign in the top line.

The Yandex search bar will be displayed at the top, and below it there will be a panel with miniature images of the selected sites. By clicking on any of them, you will immediately go to the desired site. Below you will see buttons with which you can go to downloads, favorite sites, history, and view recently closed tabs.

In order to add the desired page to the panel in Mozilla, click on the “Add bookmark” button.