How to install Yandex visual bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox. Visual bookmarks for Google Chrome - fast and convenient Internet

Visual bookmarks allow any user to quickly and easily visit their favorite sites and pages on the Internet. Just click on the visual bookmark element and the browser will quickly open the desired page. However, not all browsers have visual bookmarks. Opera of all versions boasts of them, as well as Yandex Browser. However, what should you do if you don’t want to switch to another browser from the convenient Google Chrome and Mozilla?

Installing visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox

Set visual bookmarks to Mozilla browser possible in several ways.

There are many extensions on the Internet, by installing which you can add Visual Bookmarks to Mozilla. To search for and install such add-ons, do the following:

Open the browser and click on the menu icon. Select "Add-ons".

Enter the query “Visual bookmarks” into the search bar.

Next, select the appropriate extension from the list. Click “Install”.

We installed "Visual Bookmarks from Mail". They look like this.

You can also install visual bookmarks from Yandex for Mazila. To do this, follow the link and click “Add to Firefox”.

Yandex bookmarks look like this:

You can also set visual bookmarks using the Speed Dial extension.

After installing the add-on, you need to restart the browser. A window with extension settings will appear. The marks do not need to be changed.

The visual marks will be as follows.

By clicking on the empty square, a new window will appear. Enter the address of the site you want to bookmark.

Using these methods, you can add visual bookmarks to the Mozilla browser.

Adding visual bookmarks to the Google Chrome browser

Add visual bookmarks to Google Chrome from Yandex you can quite simply. To do this, perform the following steps:

Click on the menu icon and select “Settings”.

In the left menu, select “Extensions”. Scroll down the page and select “More extensions”.

The Chrome Web Store will open. Enter “Visual bookmarks” into the search bar.

Select the appropriate extension from the list.

Select, for example, Visual Bookmarks from Yandex and click “Install”.

After installing the add-on, restart the browser. Visual bookmarks will look like this.

It is worth noting that no matter which developer you install visual bookmarks from, you can set the start page yourself and at your own discretion.

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 the main page of which you see visual bookmarks. Simply put, everything is stored on 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, in Windows or MacOS, you can always go to your cloud and use saved links.

For example, at work you have a corporate Internet Explorer or any other browser installed. 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 an additional browser extension, 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 change 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 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.

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, 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 search engine we need 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 new version express panels 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 settings” 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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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 Chrome browser leads 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 images-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 pictures 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 account EverSync (if available) 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” on the scoreboard new miniature site, 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 we can, just like in Chrome, 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.

Visual bookmarks - This is by far the most convenient type of add-on for working with your favorite and frequently visited pages. Their display allows you not to waste time searching for the desired page, so installing such an add-on will be useful for every Internet user. Below we will look at visual bookmarks from Yandex: installation, configuration and main functions available to users.

Visual bookmarks are part of Yandex elements. You can download visual bookmarks both from the official Yandex website (link at the end of the article) and in the extension store for your browser.

After installing visual bookmarks, they may be disabled in some browsers. To activate, go from the browser to the extension management menu (for example, you need to select the browser menu, open “Additional tools” and select “Extensions”.

On the list installed extensions Find “Visual bookmarks” and check the “Enable” box.

Now, when you create a new tab in your browser, you will see visual bookmarks from Yandex. You've already created a few visual bookmarks in the form of tiles based on your internet visits, but most of them are .

To go to a bookmark site, simply click on the selected tile with the left mouse button.

To remove unwanted bookmarks, move your mouse cursor to the upper right corner of the tile to bring up a small menu consisting of three buttons. The lock icon pins the tile in visual bookmarks, the second icon allows you to change the site of the tile, and the third icon deletes the tile.

Now you can add those bookmarks that you consider necessary to place in visual bookmarks. To do this, at the bottom of the page, select the “Add Bookmark” button and in the menu that appears, select the icon with the site (selected based on popular or recently visited sites) or enter your web resource in the address bar.

Visual bookmarks can be personalized with background images. In order to change the wallpaper of visual bookmarks, open the “Settings” menu and select the wallpaper you like from the high-quality images provided. If necessary, you can upload your own images.

If you select the “Other options” submenu in the same “Settings” menu, you can configure the display of tiles (in the form of logos or screenshots), as well as remove the search bar and display the bookmarks bar.

Visual bookmarks are a very useful and beautiful addition for browsers. This extension does not put a serious load on the web browser, thereby not reducing its speed, and also has a stunning minimalistic interface that can be customized.