Extended visual bookmarks Yandex 201. Visual bookmarks Yandex: from installation to customizing appearance. Add a new bookmark

This solution was developed by Yandex, but can be used in any browser, not just the one released by this company. Next we will talk about installing and using them in mozilla firefox.

You can always save a link to the desired page or resource by clicking on the asterisk in the address bar. In Firefox Quantum, links to the most visited sites are displayed in the tab new page, but it’s most convenient to use visual bookmarks for this. They have several advantages:

Where to download and how to install the add-on

There are two resources, where you can download visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox: Yandex and a catalog of browser extensions. Next we will talk about where exactly you can find the add-on on each of them.

Page with Yandex Elements

Directory of addons for Mozilla Firefox

1. In the browser menu, select “Add-ons” (you can also call it by simultaneously pressing the Shift, Ctrl and A keys).
2. In Firefox Quantum, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the blue button that says “View more add-ons” (you won’t have to do this in the earlier version of Mozilla). Enter the name of the extension in the search bar and install it following the system prompts.

Adjusting individual icons

After installing the addon, you should go to the page with bookmarks (to do this, just create a new tab) and understand its functionality and appearance. The panel already contains icons for several pages, but if you don’t need them, you can select the ones you like best.

To place a block on the panel, click “Add” at the very bottom. You will be asked:

Having made your choice, click “Add signature” . After that, your favorite resource will appear on the bookmarks page.

The settings of each individual block can be adjusted. Hover your cursor over its top right edge and you will see three small icons:

• lock (if it is open, the settings of an individual bookmark can be changed, if it is closed - not);
• gear (pressing this button opens access to settings);
• cross (by clicking on it, you will remove this or that icon from the page).

General extension settings

To access general settings additions, click "Add" at the bottom of the screen. After this, a list of options will open, changing which will affect the appearance of the page with visual bookmarks:

Other options available on the bookmarks bar

If you want to view the latest news directly on the bookmarks bar, activate the news feed on it. To do this, click the “Enable” button in the Yandex line. Next, select and save the sources from which you want to receive news (they will be divided into several thematic categories). Yandex. Zen will be displayed at the very bottom of the panel, under the icons of individual pages.

To synchronize with your Yandex account, just click “Login” in the upper right corner of the screen and enter your data. There you can also go to the personal profile created in the system.

How to remove an addon

Let's assume that you decide to remove this extension and return to the original interface . In this case, bookmarks are deleted like any other add-on in Mozilla:

• in the main menu, select “Add-ons”, and then “Extensions”;
• Find the line with Yandex bookmarks and click the “Delete” button in it. This will temporarily disable this extension.

What if you installed them as a third-party application and not as an addon? In this case, deletion can be done using Windows tools:

• Find the “Programs” section in the “Control Panel”, and in it - the “Uninstall a program” item;
• find the required plugin in the list (but do not accidentally delete Yandex. Browser itself), right-click on it and delete it;
• you need to follow the instructions that will appear on the screen.

How to restore visual bookmarks in Firefox

If you find that visual bookmarks have disappeared in Firefox, this is not yet a reason to claim that the browser or add-on has failed. Possible reasons the problems are:

Now you know how to use this Yandex extension. All that remains is to install it in the browser and evaluate the convenience of this solution.

The purpose of Visual Bookmarks is to quickly move from one web page to another. Very often, a website acts as the browser’s home page. Many users also prefer to set the search page for one of the two most popular search engines in our country - that is, put, say, Yandex or Google.

IN in this case In order for the user to be able to access a specific resource, he needs to enter its name in the address bar area located at the top Mozilla browser Firefox. Another option is to save the site in the bookmarks bar in Mozilla. You can go there by clicking on “Bookmarks” and selecting the desired site.

In principle, this may seem quite simple to do. However, gradually, each time making such movements, you inevitably want to make your task even easier. It is for this purpose that IT companies have developed special browser extensions designed for Firefox. This addition successfully plays the role of a home page. One of the most popular and convenient extensions is “ Visual bookmarks» from Yandex for Mozilla Firefox. It is not difficult to install them. Just enter a query in a search engine, download and install the extension. It is important to remember that it is better to use only the official website Firefox add-ons. The download is absolutely free, and you can be sure that nothing unnecessary will get into your computer. Usually Official page is on the top or second line of search results.

This “Homepage” looks like a grid of windows, each of which includes a miniature image of the desired site. To do this, you just need to add the resource to the extension bookmarks. The number of windows can be easily adjusted using the settings panel. This makes it much more convenient to make the transition - just click on one of them.

Features of use

Normal functioning of “Visual Bookmarks” is not possible on all versions of Mozilla Firefox. To install and configure the extension at your discretion, you must have the Yandex panel. Bar. The vast majority of installed browsers have this panel by default. But if for some reason this did not happen, then you will need to find Yandex on the website bar.yandex.ru. A bar designed for Mozilla Firefox and installed independently. This bar is intended only for Mozilla and its usefulness is undeniable, as confirmed by reviews about Yandex. Bar for a large number of advanced users.

Yandex. The bar is not difficult to install; how to do it, read on.

Sometimes Mozilla Firefox prevents software installation. It is very simple to understand that this has happened: a message will appear at the top of the screen indicating that the installation from the site has been blocked. To solve this problem, simply click on the “Allow” button located in the upper right corner.

The next step is to click on the “Install Now” button, which is located in the “Software Installation” window that opens. Loading Yandex. The bara will begin in about ten seconds. After the installation procedure took place and Yandex. The bar is ready to operate successfully; you will need to restart the browser. This is necessary to complete the process completely. You don’t have to worry about rebooting, since the browser saves all windows that will be opened again the next time you start it.

Now installation and configuration of “Visual Bookmarks” from Yandex will be possible after accepting the terms of the license agreement.

How to install and make such bookmarks

So, how do you set up visual bookmarks like these? To start using the add-on, just press the Ctrl+T key combination on your keyboard. This will open a new browser tab where your bookmarks are pinned.

The Yandex Visual Bookmarks settings for Firefox are located in the lower right corner. Here you can set a background image. You can change the picture yourself, or it will change itself over a certain period of time.

A big advantage of Yandex bookmarks is the ability to create a certain number of windows for the taskbar. To enter a new window, just click on the transparent rectangular tab, which opens the “Editing” tab. Here you can enter the name of the site, which will now appear in “Visual Bookmarks”. To do this, click “Save”. It is possible to move windows between each other.

It is most convenient to use “Visual Bookmarks” when the extension is set as the home page. To do this, you need to open the “Firefox” panel, then “Settings”, and then “General”. There is a line “Home Page”. It introduces the yafd:tabs command. To complete the installation process, just click “OK”.

Additional benefits

The Yandex Visual Bookmarks extension for Mozilla Firefox can not only significantly simplify Internet surfing. Essentially, it's an incredibly compact toolbar that helps you do a lot of important tasks without interfering with your web browsing. In particular, a convenient search is preinstalled here directly from the address bar. In this case, the search works in the same way as the standard option. Here are tips to help you quickly add the required form request, as well as correcting errors and typos.

Yandex's "Visual Bookmarks" for Firefox make it possible to monitor the weather and traffic conditions in real time. With this extension, you won’t need to click on anything, you just need to look at the screen where the information is pinned.

Another convenience is receiving notifications from various services and social networks. If a certain event occurs on one of the services where the user is registered, the extension will immediately send a notification. An example is Yandex.Mail or social media VKontakte, Facebook and others. You can reply directly from the visual bookmarks panel by simply clicking on the notification itself.

The Google Chrome browser is excellent in many respects: speed, ease of use, security, extensibility and many others. But the developers didn’t think through visual bookmarks or didn’t really want it.

By default, Chrome has regular bookmarks, which can also be placed in a row under the address bar, and some sort of visual bookmarks that appear in a new tab. These bookmarks display the most recently visited pages and cannot be influenced in any way. The good thing about Chrome is that any of its shortcomings are eliminated with the help of additional extensions. I first saw visual bookmarks in the Opera browser. When they were born, it was something new and quickly became fashionable.

How to install an extension in Google Chrome

To install visual bookmarks in Chrome, you just need to install your favorite extension or use a cloud service. Installing different extensions is no different from each other. General algorithm actions like this:

These are the most normal, in my opinion, bookmarks. To install them, follow the link and click the “Install” button.

If the link does not work, then you need to install Yandex Elements. To check the operation of visual bookmarks, open a new tab in the browser:

By default, there will only be bookmarks with Yandex links and some of the latest ones. To add a new site, click the “Add Bookmark” button. You can select one of your recently visited sites or enter your own link and name. Managing bookmarks is very simple: you can rearrange them by dragging them with the mouse, change links and names, hide and delete. When you hover your cursor over the bookmark icon, menu icons appear with which you can do all these actions.

Let's click on the "Settings" button in the lower right corner and see what's there.

Advantages and disadvantages of cloud bookmarks

There are a lot of online services, opening home page which you see visual bookmarks. Simply put, everything is stored on a remote server - in the cloud. The advantage is obvious: no matter where you are, no matter what browser you use, on a computer or tablet, on Windows or MacOS, you can always go to your cloud and use saved links.

For example, at work you have a corporate browser installed Internet Explorer or any other. Not an easy time working day There are several interesting links that you need to open at home in Google Chrome. In such a situation it will no longer help. Now you can save your bookmarks in the cloud, which is accessible from anywhere there is an Internet connection.

The only disadvantages are the need for registration and the possible loss of all links if the service disappears. But if bookmark data is stored on a computer, then the risk of losing it is even higher. There is also the inconvenience of adding new bookmarks, because... I had to manually copy the links and add them to the piggy bank. But there are services that offer additional expansion for the browser, for example the excellent and free bookmark manager Atavi.

In principle, the same Yandex bookmarks are an interweaving of the cloud and extensions for Chrome, but they can work completely autonomously, while purely cloud ones always require the Internet. Perhaps, Yandex loses only in that on different computers you will have to log in under your Yandex name, which is unsafe, and it no longer opens in all countries, and the functionality of visual bookmarks is a matter of taste.

Installing the Atavi extension

To begin, go to the site using the button, go through a small setup wizard and register by entering your username and password. Nothing else is required, you don’t even need to confirm your registration from the letter.

Agree to grant rights to the extension using the “Add” button. The home page will be changed to atavi.com and a notification will be issued. Video:

Basic techniques for working with bookmarks

Everything is as simple as two or two. The home page displays the initial page of visual bookmarks. You can also create your own groups and switch between them using the tabs at the bottom of the window. In my example there are three tabs: “Initial”, “Latest” and the “Currency” I created.

To add a new bookmark, click on the empty space with a large plus sign, enter the address, name and select the group:

Or simply right-click on the page of any site that we want to save and select “Send to bookmarks on Atavi” from the context menu

The new element will appear on the home page. To delete a bookmark or change data, you need to click the cross or gear that will appear at the bottom right if you hover the mouse over the element

You can also move links between groups by simply dragging them with the mouse onto the desired group tab. You can also add a new bookmark using the Atavi icon in the browser address bar, in this case you can immediately change the name and group

To create or edit a group, use the gear button at the bottom right of the Atavi window. By default, clicking on a group tab takes you to it, but in edit mode it becomes possible to change the group name. To complete editing, you need to click on the gear again and select “Finish.”

Share bookmarks with friends

Export, backup, import

Any service that respects its users, of course, has a function to export all links, just in case. Here this function is in general settings:

Everything is saved in a convenient HTML format, i.e. as a simple page that opens in the browser, and all links are clickable:

In the settings you can also change the appearance or switch to a shortened mobile version. And if you uncheck “Include groups”, then all bookmarks from all groups will fit on one page.

The developers have gone even further and propose making their usual bookmarks visual, i.e. import from the browser into your Atavi account. To use this function, you need to export regular Chrome bookmarks to HTML and import them using the “Import” function of the same name in the Atavi settings. Or install the extension, it will do everything itself.

I think it’s already clear that if the browser extension is not installed, then just go to atavi.com and log in, you will see all your bookmarks. This can be done on phones and tablets, but there are apps for them too.

I completely switched to Atavi and I advise you. I liked the intuitive interface, fast speed work, the ability to add bookmarks from the address bar. Of course, the main focus is on integration with Google Chrome, but it can also be used, be it Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer.

Veteran of visual bookmarks - Speed ​​Dial 2

This tool allows you to completely customize the appearance and style of bookmarks, import the most visited sites, view statistics, export your settings and something else.

Now let's open a new tab to see how the extension works. When you first start, you will be asked to go through an introductory tour, or skip this step. I advise you to look through it quickly so that there are no questions later. Next, a wizard will launch to add your most visited sites to bookmarks.

For the first time, added bookmarks are displayed without a thumbnail image, and I didn't like it. To add a picture, you need to go to the bookmark once or click “Create a sketch”. Speed ​​Dial settings are called up from the menu by right-clicking on an empty space. There are a lot of settings, we’ll look at the main ones here, and watch the video for the rest.

In the main settings we can:

• Select the number of columns with bookmarks (default 5)
• Distance between bookmark thumbnails, in pixels
• Bookmark ordering method: manually by dragging and dropping or automatically by number of visits
• Center vertically so that the bookmarks bar is in the middle of the screen
• Specify how often to update the preview

The Speed ​​Dial 2 extension has a sidebar that appears when you move your mouse to the right edge of the window. There are all the regular and recent closed bookmarks. You can also select or upload a background image. Another interesting feature is synchronization with the social bookmarking service Delicious.

The simplest bookmarks from Mail.ru

Compared to bookmarks from Yandex, these are the simplest.

The principle of operation is exactly the same, only there are no settings, and only nine (3x3) bookmarks are available.

Everything is added and removed in the same way.

How to disable and remove old extensions

After searching and experimenting, you may end up with several unnecessary extensions that will . To disable an unnecessary extension, go to “Menu -> Additional tools -> Extensions”, find the add-on and uncheck “Enabled”

And to delete it completely (the settings are not saved!) you need to click on the trash can and agree to the deletion.

What are visual bookmarks from Yandex? This is an add-on that is available not only in Yandex Browser, but also in browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and even Internet Explorer. Such extensions allow simplify your work with sites, since the most important ones can be added to the display on the main window of the program.

If you install a plugin from Yandex, you will have access to an address bar where you can enter resource addresses and search queries, and you will also have quick access to elements and social networks.

In Yandex Browser, elements are configured as follows:

At the top we see the Yandex search bar; if you wish, you can change the search engine in the settings.

To delete a site, right-click on it and click on the item “ Delete».

The functions for supplementing Yandex visual bookmarks differ depending on the browser used.

How to set up visual bookmarks in Google Chrome

Chrome is a very popular and used tool. It has many plugins to increase functionality. Go to settings and go to the section " Additional tools" There we find the item “ Extensions».

In the window that opens, scroll down and click on the link “ More extensions».

We are redirected to the browser add-ons page. In the search bar on the left, enter the phrase “ visual bookmarks Yandex" and select the desired result.

Click install extension.

Now open a new tab and make sure that the add-on has installed correctly. You have access to panels with elements where you can add any site, a search bar from Yandex.ru and the necessary settings.

Click on the button " Settings" A panel will open on the right where we can:

There are also additional options where you can enable or disable the address bar, information bar, zen (news) and contextual suggestions.

On the main window you can go to history, view the dollar exchange rate and the weather, and below you can see blocks with news, which you can turn off if you wish.

Bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla is also a popular browser among users. In particular it has a large number of various plugins that other browsers do not have.

On the empty tab there will be many blocks with resources; you can delete them and add your own. The settings for this add-on are exactly the same as in Chrome.

To remove a site from the main panel, move the mouse cursor to its upper right corner, after a couple of seconds it will appear several shortcuts: Pin, customize and delete.

How to set visual bookmarks for any browser

In order not to search every time in the extensions for each browser for the necessary add-on, you can go in a simple way. Using Google Chrome as an example, we perform the following operation:

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: