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Google Chrome, without a doubt, is the favorite Internet browser of many users. Convenient interface with a minimum number of buttons, the ability to set the start page and many other settings. However, in this browser, unlike Yandex and Opera, there is no such built-in tool as visual bookmarks.

What are they, what are they for, and how to configure them in Chrome. We will talk about all this today.

Visual bookmarks allow the user to quickly access their favorite sites. They open in a separate browser page, which shows miniatures of selected sites and their names.

In Google Chrome, when you open a new tab, under the search bar there are 8 tiles into which frequently used sites are added. If you are not satisfied with this option, and you want to customize this panel yourself, then using the Chrome store, you can install a suitable add-on.

How to install an extension for visual bookmarks in Google Chrome

You can download the add-on for them either on the add-on developer’s website, or install it from the Chrome online store. We will consider the second option.

Open the browser and click on the button in the form of three horizontal lines in the upper right corner. From the drop-down list, select “Additional tools”, then click on “Extensions”.

Here you will see a list of all those installed in the browser on this moment. Scroll down and click More Extensions.

The Chrome Web Store will open. Type “visual bookmarks” into the search bar, press “Enter” and select the “Extensions” category from the results.

From the list provided, select the add-on that suits you and click on it. As an example, let's install Yandex visual bookmarks for Google Chrome. Check out more detailed information about it and click on the “Install” button.

Confirm the installation by clicking on the appropriate button.

After it is successfully installed in the browser, an icon of the installed extension will appear to the right of the address bar.

In the same way, you can install any other add-on for visual bookmarks in the Google Chrome browser.

Visual bookmarks Yandex

If you want to use similar ones in Chrome from Yandex, you need to install the appropriate extension in your browser. We discussed in detail how to do this in the paragraph above.

After installing them, open a new tab in Chrome. Here you will see the Yandex search bar, and below it, the panel we need.

At the bottom there are additional buttons, using which you can open a window with downloads, view bookmarks or history. You can also add a new bookmark or go to settings.

If you want to add the desired site to this panel, click on the “Add bookmark” button.

To customize which tiles are displayed, click Settings. Here you can increase the number of tiles on the panel and change the background. To see more settings, click More Options.

The presented thumbnails can be swapped by dragging them with the mouse. By hovering the cursor over any of them, additional buttons will appear. Using them, you can pin the miniature to the panel, go to settings (if you need to change the address or description) or delete it.

Atavi is another popular add-on for visual bookmarks in the Google Chrome browser. To install Atavi, follow all the steps described in the first paragraph.

In the Chrome Web Store, find “Atavi – bookmark manager” in the list and click the “Install” button opposite.

Confirm installation.

To open the Atavi panel, click on the extension icon located to the right of the search bar. By clicking on the “Make home” button, the bookmarks panel will appear immediately when you start the browser. If you want, in Chrome settings, make sure that when you open a new tab, this panel is also shown.

You can add a new site here by clicking on the plus sign in the upper right corner or on the empty miniature with a plus sign.

After that, enter the address and name of the site, select a group for it and click “Add”.

All are shown below existing groups. Using them, you can divide bookmarks according to a specific topic. By clicking on the gear icon, you can create new group or edit an existing one.

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 sudden death operating system, and also 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 to me 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 of course Internet Explorer) have acquired many additions 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 - for its advertising and positive reviews they pay money about him. 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 will not 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 .

Bookmarks are a familiar tool for every browser that allows you to quickly access a site. In turn, visual bookmarks are an effective tool to transform a blank Google Chrome page, as well as conveniently organize the most visited pages. Today we will take a closer look at visual bookmarks from Yandex.

Yandex bookmarks for Google Chrome are some of the best visual bookmarks ever implemented for browsers. They allow you not only to instantly open saved web pages, but also to significantly transform the browser interface.

Visual bookmarks are a browser extension, so we will download them from the Google Chrome add-on store.

To install visual bookmarks from Yandex, you can either immediately go to the download page in your browser using the link at the end of the article, or find them yourself. To do this, click on the browser menu button in the upper right corner and in the list that appears, go to the item “Additional tools” – “Extensions” .

Scroll down to the bottom of the list and click on the link "More extensions" .

In the left area of ​​the window, enter in the search bar "Visual bookmarks" and press Enter.

In the block "Extensions" Visual bookmarks from Yandex will be displayed first in the list. Open them.

Click the button in the upper right corner "Install" and wait until the installation of the add-on is completed.

How to use visual bookmarks?

To see visual bookmarks, you need to open a blank tab in Google Chrome. You can do this by clicking on the special button in upper area browser, or using a special keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T .

Visual bookmarks from Yandex will open in a new tab on the screen. By default, they will not display bookmarks saved in the browser, but frequently visited pages.

Now a few words about how to manage bookmarks. To add a new visual bookmark, click the button in the lower right corner "Add bookmark" .

A small window will appear on the screen in which you will need to indicate the address of the page that will be added to the bookmark, or select one of the proposed ones. After entering the page address, all you have to do is press the Enter key, as a result of which the bookmark will appear on the screen.

To delete an unnecessary bookmark, hover your mouse cursor over it. After one second, a small menu will appear in the upper right corner of the bookmark, in which you will need to click the cross icon and then confirm deleting the bookmark.

Sometimes it is not necessary to delete bookmarks at all, but just reassign them. To do this, hover your mouse over the bookmark to display an additional menu, and then click on the gear icon.

The already familiar window for adding a bookmark will appear on the screen, in which you just have to set new addresses to bookmark and save it by pressing Enter.

Visual bookmarks can be easily sorted. To do this, simply hold down the bookmark with the left mouse button and move it to the desired area of ​​the screen. Other bookmarks will automatically move apart to make room for the bookmark you are moving. As soon as you release the mouse cursor, it will snap to a new location.

If you don't want some bookmarks to leave their position, you can pin them in the area you set. To do this, hover your mouse over the bookmark to display an additional menu, and then click on the lock icon to move it to the closed position.

Pay attention to the background of the visual bookmarks. If the background installed by the service does not suit you, you can change it. To do this, click on the icon in the lower right corner "Settings" , and then select one of the images offered by Yandex.

Also, if necessary, you can set your own background images. To do this you need to click on the button "Download" , after which you need to select an image stored on your computer.

Visual bookmarks are a simple, convenient and aesthetic way to place all your important bookmarks at hand. After spending no more than 15 minutes on setup, you will feel a huge difference compared to regular bookmarks.

For many, visual bookmarks for the Google Chrome browser are one of the most important things when surfing the Internet. The built-in capabilities of the browser are not always enough, and sometimes you want a more customized interface.

It’s most convenient when the start page, new tab and clicking on the “Home” button open the same panel with visual bookmarks of the Google Chrome browser.

For those who don’t have enough of all the functions and want more, we are publishing our selection of visual bookmark extensions for Google Chrome:

Yandex visual bookmarks

In addition, you will always have your browser's Bookmarks Bar at your fingertips.

From the page Visual bookmarks you can easily run Google Chrome™ Apps.

Atavi bookmark manager

Syncing Chrome bookmarks with Firefox, Opera, IE and other browsers is now easier than ever!

Speed ​​Dial

Convenient synchronization will allow you to have the same set of sites on different computers, and also on mobile devices!

You can create your own preview of each site, and you can always choose a picture for a preview from our gallery. For the express panel itself, you can set your own background or use our themes.

Do you want someone else to see the list of your favorite sites (for example, work colleagues)? Then there is a Power Off function for you, which will allow you to set a password on your express panel.