Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox. Visual bookmarks for browsers

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Who taught browsers to create website thumbnails?

All “adventure games”, like any other software, include only the most necessary, basic functions of web browsers, and additional features are implemented through add-ons (extensions, plugins), the writing of which is available to anyone. Browser makers provide the necessary information for this.

So, one of these additions (extensions) are visual and very easy-to-navigate bookmarks in the form of small copies of sites, and now the only thing left to do is figure out how to add bookmarks to the visual bookmarks of your browser.

Unlike standard ones (in some browsers “Favorites”), visual bookmarks no longer “live” on the user’s hard drive, but on the server of a site on the Internet that provides services for their storage. Their advantage over regular ones lies in their “independence” from the device used to access the Internet.

Visual thumbnails in the Mozilla browser

Despite the fact that the Chrome browser is the leader in the ranking of web browsers, there are many more users concerned about how to visually bookmark a page in Mozilla than those who are interested in this add-on in Chrome.

You can get to the page with extensions by clicking on the “Add-ons” line in the “Tools” menu or in the button menu with three bars at the top right, and also by typing the combination Ctrl + Shift + A.

Here, on the “Get Add-ons” page, you can click on the “More” button (at the top), which will take you to the website addons.mozilla.org, where in the “Extensions” menu there is a “Bookmarks” link. By clicking on it, you can find a suitable visual option by sorting through 1369 extensions.

But in fact, in order to decide how to add bookmarks to visual bookmarks, just go to the "Extensions" page, type the phrase "Visual..." in the search bar and select any of several proposed extensions (Wishstorage, Tabsbook, Speed Start, etc.).

"Visual bookmarks online 1.081"

By clicking the "Install" button on the right, you will allow this add-on to be downloaded as a service onlinezakladki.ru, which can be used from the first click on the cross "Open a new tab" without registration and authorization.

By clicking on the gear button to the right of the search bar, tab settings open, among which there is a “Synchronization” section. When solving the problem of how to add bookmarks to visual bookmarks, we can select the appropriate method for storing them in it and import/export bookmarks from/to an HTML file.

The onlinezakladki.ru service, having secured its presence with an icon with an asterisk at the top right, allows you to select up to 40 bookmarks (the gear button to the right of the search bar) and will provide access to them from anywhere in the world. As soon as you move the cursor to a bookmark, the functions for editing and deleting it will immediately light up.

Editing operations include changing basic data (address, title) and adjusting the image to allow the use of a customized image.

You can add a new page to the bookmarks panel by clicking on the cross in the center of an empty bookmark or on the star icon at the top right.

How to Add Visual Bookmarks in Google Chrome

By default, they are already installed in Chrome, but these are only image links of the pages the user recently visited. Moreover, the new (last visited) page will appear in bookmarks only after restarting the browser, and no keys or combinations thereof will help, including Ctrl + R (the "Reload" command in the page context menu).

Automatically displayed in a new tab, they are devoid of any settings, except for deleting them by clicking on the cross in the upper right corner.

Such a thumbnail service will probably not suit those users who are interested in how to add visual bookmarks to Google Chrome. Therefore, silently click on the three stripes at the top right and select “Additional tools > Extensions”.

If there are no extensions in the window that opens, we agree to the offer: “Do you want to view the gallery?”, and if there are, then click on the “More extensions” link and get to the “Chrome Online Store”.

Here, of course, you can endlessly scroll through the page with countless applications, holding your eyes so as not to wander. But just to find out how to add visual bookmarks in Google Chrome, this

As in the Mozilla browser, here, too, you can simply type the phrase “visual...” in the store search at the top right and “+Install” (as the blue buttons on the right are labeled) any of several proposed extensions.

Among them are the already familiar service onlinezakladki.ru, Evorch, Atavi, Speed Dial and a number of other offers, the installation and configuration of which is simple and understandable for a user of any level, but for example, let’s look at how to add a visual bookmark with 3D mode in Chrome.

Visual bookmarks FVD Speed Dial

Click the “+Install” button, open a new tab and admire the beautiful and impressive express panel of visual bookmarks with 3D mode and synchronization functions.

All the necessary sites are visible, and if there are so many of them that your eyes run wild, you can sort them into groups, to create which you need to click on the cross in the upper right, next to the default groups.

For each site we can create our own thumbnail or use a collection of images from the gallery. For the express panel itself, you can also choose your own background if you are not satisfied with the “standard” themes.

Convenient and simple synchronization (a round icon with arrows catching up with each other in the menu at the top right) will allow us to have the same selection of sites on different browsers, computers and other mobile devices.

But in order to use synchronization, we will have to agree to the offer to download the Eversync application from the Chrome Web Store, after which a synchronization button will appear in the panel at the top right.

By clicking the indicated button, we will see a proposal to log in to your EverSync account (if you have one) or create a new account. We will have to agree to this, because, having figured out how to add visual bookmarks in Google Chrome, we need to figure out how to synchronize them with other browsers and various mobile devices.

Synchronizing standard links

The Ever Sync service can save and synchronize not only FVD Speed Dial bookmarks, but also standard ones (favorites). Click Bookmarks and deal with the window that opens.

Here we can enable/disable auto-synchronization, combine local and server information (Merge button), replace data on the server (Upload button) and replace local information (Download button).

To transfer (copy) bookmarks to the server, you need to decide between the actions “Merge” or “Download”, choosing the second if synchronization is performed for the first time. You will find the copied links by clicking the "My EverHelperAccount" button.

Now bookmarks copied to the cloud can be transferred to any other browser or computer if the EverSync extension is installed on it.

Sync links created in Speed Dial

To close the question of how to add visual bookmarks with 3D mode in Google, we return to the application menu and open the Speed Dial tab, where we will synchronize the bookmarks of this extension.

As in the previous case, click the “Download” button, confirm your choice (Ok) and after 10-40 seconds, making sure that “Synchronization was successful” (as indicated by three green checkmarks), close the window.

Visual Bookmarks are now ready to use on another computer or browser (if you have the Speed Dial application installed).

Visual bookmarks in the Yandex browser

Users of Mozilla, Chrome, Opera and a number of other well-known browsers whose home page is set to “Yandex” will confirm with what persistence and tenacity “Yandex” offers to download its browser.

And these efforts were crowned with success, because this browser is rapidly gaining popularity. Therefore, as a “snack”, let’s find out how to add a visual bookmark in Yandex.

One of the Yandex elements, the Visual Bookmarks add-on, is also popular among similar services. But if we try to install it in the browser, we will receive the following message: “The Yandex browser already has a board with visuals...”. And by adding a new tab, we will make sure of this.

And in order to “place” a new site miniature on the display, you just need to click on the “baptized” inscription “Add”, enter the site address or its name and add a signature.

In the context menu of each tab, you can unpin it, delete it, change the site, and customize the thumbnail board in general.

Judging by the “demand” on the RuNet, this function in Yandex suits the majority of users. But here too, just like in Chrome, we can add a visual bookmark using any other service that we find in the catalog of add-ons for Yandex in the “Add-ons” section in the “three-bar” button menu at the top right.

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.

Probably each of us is familiar with such a service as Yandex Bookmarks. Using this add-on, you can quickly create any directory from your favorite sites and go to them without entering the address into the browser. Moreover, you can use the Yandex Visual Tabs service not only on a computer, but also on a laptop or even a smartphone. What is special about this add-on, how to use it and how to install it? You will learn all this in our article today.

What are “Yandex Visual Tabs” for?

Purely for ease of use. This small but very useful addition makes your browser more functional and easy to use. Agree, it is much better to open and click on the icon with your favorite site than to enter its full name into the address bar or constantly search through a search engine. You can go to any bookmark you like in one click. Also, one of the main advantages due to which Internet users install the Yandex Visual Tabs add-on on their browser is the ability to save up to 24 bookmarks. So you can go to any of these 24 sites in one click, without opening a search engine or typing anything into

Competitors

The main competitor of the Yandex Visual Tabs service is the Speed Dial add-on. In fact, these two extensions are practically no different from each other, the only thing is that in Yandex, when you open a new tab, your search is displayed (at the very top above the bookmarks). That is, if necessary, you do not need to go to Yandex, since it is already present in the new tab. The function is very convenient and does not interfere with working with bookmarks at all. This is probably why the “Yandex Visual Tabs” extension is more popular in RuNet than “Speed Dial”.

How to install this add-on?

It is worth noting that visual tabs are available on several browsers at once:

"Google Chrome";
"Firefox";
"Yandex browser".

In the case of the latter, this function is already present, but on the other two such an addition would not hurt.

How to install visual bookmarks in Google Chrome? First, click on the “hash”, which is located in the upper right corner of the browser. After that, go to “Tools” - “Extensions”. Next in the window you will see all those extensions that have already been installed in Google Chrome. We do not touch them, but go to the very bottom of the page. Here you will see a "More extensions" button. After clicking it, you will be taken to the Google Chrome Online Store. Now in the search engine, which is located in the upper left corner, you should enter a query. Then you will be taken to a page where this extension is described in detail. Find the “Install” button, click “Add” and wait for the application to download to your computer. The download process can be seen below in the left corner. As a rule, the download time is no more than 10 seconds (even with the slowest Internet no more than a minute), since the extension “weighs” about one megabyte. After downloading, you need to install the add-on. There is nothing complicated here, and the installation itself does not take very long. That's it, all you have to do is restart your browser and open a new tab to make sure it works.

How to install an extension in Firefox?

Installing this add-on in this browser is similar to the previous case. In Firefox, you need to go to extensions and type the request “Visual bookmarks”. Once a suitable application is found, download it and install it. Do not forget to restart the browser, as often in such cases the tabs may not appear immediately, you need to close and open the program again.

An easier way to install Yandex tabs

There is another method for downloading the add-on, which can be suitable for both Mozilla and Google Chrome. After entering the request “Download visual bookmarks from Yandex” into the search bar, go to the official website of the plugin. Here the site will automatically detect your browser and download the appropriate version of the extension for you.

How to use it? How to make tabs in Yandex?

Using this extension is very simple. If you want to add any site you like to a tab, you need to point at any of the 24 tabs (by the way, at any time you can move it to the place of another or replace it) and point at the icon. You will then see three gray icons for editing. When you hover over them, hints appear. We need to select the "Settings" button. It is located on the left and looks like a gear. We right-click on it, and a window appears in front of us with the address bar and the name of the site (if it is saved there). Enter the address of the site you like and click “OK”. The application itself determines the name, so you don’t have to fill in this line. The same thing happens with the icon. Sometimes it is not displayed immediately, so here you also need to restart the browser (although the bookmarks themselves can be used immediately after the settings, without rebooting).

How to make Yandex a new tab?

Similar to the above steps, open the settings and enter “Yandex official website” in the address bar. Click "Ok" and check the functionality of the bookmark. Typically, this application already includes such a tab as “VKontakte” and “Yandex News”. But that is not all. You can go to its official website by clicking the “Yandex” button at the top of the search bar. Everything is very simple and convenient.

We’ve already figured out how to make new Yandex tabs, now let’s talk about how to delete a particular bookmark. This is done even faster than adding. When you hover your mouse over the icon with the site you want to delete, select the gray cross and click the mouse button. After this, the bookmark itself will be removed from the panel. You can install a new one in its place or move an icon to another location. You can move bookmarks in any direction; just hold down the image with the tab and drag it to the desired location in the window.

Additional application settings

It is worth noting that the “Settings” button is highlighted not only when you hover over the icon. There are two of them in total. One of them is located in the lower right corner of the page. After clicking it, you can select the background for the bookmarks (by the way, there are very interesting images there) and select the number of tabs. In earlier versions you could select up to 48, now only 24. However, this number is quite enough to save all your favorite sites on one page.

How to remove tabs in Yandex?

If you no longer want to use the visual bookmarking service, you can remove this application from your browser. But it’s best not to uninstall, but to disable the extension, so that you don’t have to re-install it on your computer or laptop later. It is worth noting that there is no general rule for disabling tabs on all browsers, so everyone has different options for deleting bookmarks.

If you use the Google Chrome application, go to the main menu under the “hash” next to the address bar. Next, find “Settings” and right-click. On the left you will see a menu in which there is an "Extensions" item. Enter it. Here, as during installation, you will see a list of add-ons you have installed. Find “Visual Bookmarks” in the list. A basket icon will be visible next to them. After clicking on it, all bookmarks you previously set will be automatically deleted.

And now about how to disable the tab option in Mozilla. To do this, you need to open a browser window, find the “Tools” section at the top, select “Add-ons”. After this, a panel will appear in front of you that concerns visual bookmarks (usually it is located in the settings for Yandex Bar). Opposite this item you need to uncheck the box or click the “Disable” button (depending on the browser version).

Next to this value there is a “Delete” button. You should not click it, since when you uninstall visual bookmarks, you will need to download them again. And since this extension weighs very little and does not take up much memory on your hard drive, all you need to do is disable this quite useful and convenient add-on from the Yandex developers and continue surfing the Internet. You can still turn it back on and use it at any time.

Conclusion

So, we have found out all the features and nuances of installing an extension called “Visual Bookmarks from Yandex” for the most popular Internet browsers.

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:

Change the position of bookmarks
Pin bookmark
Unpin bookmark
Delete bookmark	Click the icon.
Change bookmark position
Edit bookmark

	Edit description

Change the position of bookmarks
Pin bookmark	The position of your bookmarks changes, as their list is automatically generated from the sites you visit most. To ensure that the bookmark always remains in the same place and does not disappear over time, click the icon.
Unpin bookmark	Click the icon. The bookmark may then be replaced or moved over time by a site you visit more often.
Delete bookmark	Click the icon.
Change bookmark position	Touch and hold a bookmark and drag it to a new location.
Edit bookmark
Change the page the bookmark goes to	Click the icon and enter the site address in the window that appears.
Add or edit page title on a bookmark	Click the icon, then in the window that appears, click the button Edit description and enter or edit the page title.

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:

Bookmarks
Number of bookmarks	Allows you to increase or decrease the number of displayed bookmarks.
Bookmark type	Allows you to change the appearance of visual bookmarks: logos and headings; logos and screenshots; website screenshots.
Background
Change background	Changes the background to one of the preset images.
Upload your background	Allows you to upload an image from your computer. We recommend choosing an image that is the same size as your screen, such as a desktop wallpaper. If the image is smaller, the browser will stretch it.
Change background every day	Enables alternating preset background images.
Extra options
Bookmarks bar	Allows you to quickly go to the main and initial pages of the browser, as well as to Yandex services.
Search bar	Shows the Yandex search bar in a new tab.
Context Suggestions	Allows you to enable or disable contextual advertising on a page with visual bookmarks.
Take into account my location in Yandex services	When this option is enabled, services take your location into account. For example, Weather will show the forecast for the location where you are.
Automatically send anonymous statistics	Allows sending anonymous statistics to Yandex. This helps make our services better.
Show information panel	Enables an information panel in a new tab. The panel displays: location; weather; traffic congestion; Exchange Rates.
Show in a new tab Zen - personal recommendations feed	Enables Zen when opening a new tab. The selection of content is based on your interests, search queries and browser history.
Backup
Save to file	You can save a list of your bookmarks to a file. This will help you avoid losing them if synchronization was not enabled and the browser crashed.
Load from file	It will help you transfer your bookmarks from another browser or restore them if a failure occurs or you accidentally deleted them.

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.

Video: Visual bookmarks for Google Chrome: bookmarks for Chrome

Video: Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox

Video: Visual bookmarks of Yandex Browser

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