Other visual bookmarks for Yandex browser. Yandex visual bookmarks for Google Chrome
Yandex visual bookmarks for Firefox are very convenient and quick way visit your favorite internet pages. By adding new web tabs to an Internet search engine, you will create a page with small tiles. When you click on each of them individually, you will be redirected to your chosen Internet resource. Essentially visual bookmarks- these are the same regular bookmarks in the Firefox browser, but with one very significant difference.
What are visual bookmarks?
Standard Mozilla bookmarks are a list of website names with a favicon (small icons/icons in front of the website name) and look something like this.
Apart from the name and icon, there is no information about the resources, and not all sites have their own icons. Therefore, often in search of the desired web link you have to click on everything.
Yandex visual bookmarks are small screenshots of websites with which you can immediately find the right resource and understand what is going on there.
Installing Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox
In current realities there is an experimental additional application for the Internet browser Mozilla, called “Visual bookmarks from Yandex” and it is available only to owners of the fifty-seventh version of Firefox.
In the search bar on the right, enter the name of the application “Visual Bookmarks from Yandex”, without quotes, and click on the icon with a magnifying glass.
Select the required add-on from the proposed list of extensions. Click the “Install” button to begin the installation.
After the final installation of the plugin, when you add a new tab, you will see a window in which you will have a kind of grid with bookmark tiles.
Browser Google Chrome excellent in many respects: speed, ease of use, security, expandability 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 easy: 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.
- We can select the number of visible bookmark icons, the maximum number is 25 bookmarks, which should be enough for any purpose.
- You can choose a ready-made page background or upload your own picture, and also mark the background to change every day :)
- Using the “Bookmarks Bar” checkbox, you can show or hide the display of regular bookmarks at the top of the window. In my case they are already displayed using standard features Google Chrome, so I disabled them, and they look ridiculous without icons
- Search bar: for quick search in Yandex
- Contextual suggestions: Yandex advertising, I think it’s worth turning off :)
- Show information panel: weather, traffic jams, dollar exchange rate
- Show a personal recommendations feed in a new Zen tab: you will immediately see the latest articles on your interests in Zen
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 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 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, and 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”. Settings Speed Dial 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.
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.
It’s worth installing Yandex visual bookmarks just because they make it much easier to navigate through the resources you visit. Opera has long had an Express panel, but other popular Internet browsers do not have this installed. Therefore, downloading this application is completely justified. The gadget can be installed on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.
What are visual bookmarks?
Did you like the site? Make a bookmark out of it and you can return to it after a week, a month, a year. Now every browser has this feature because it is really convenient. However, bookmarks tend to accumulate and often their number reaches hundreds. That's why browser manufacturers have created visual bookmarks, which, unlike workspace thiefs, are small images of sites you like.
Installing visual bookmarks for Yandex
Previously, this application came bundled with a bulky Bar. However, now you can download and install it without other unnecessary bells and whistles. So, first, download the installation file “Yandex Visual Bookmarks”, and then launch it. You will be prompted to install a new Yandex browser, but you don’t have to do this. Then, what’s nice, you will have the opportunity to disable all additional and often unnecessary options (default search, make the Yandex page home, sending anonymous statistics). Having completed all the necessary steps, the browser will restart and open a blank page with empty windows, where Yandex visual bookmarks will soon appear.
Working with the application
As soon as you move the mouse cursor over an empty rectangle, a “+” sign will appear on it. You can create it by clicking on it. You can select Yandex visual bookmarks from recently opened pages or simply enter the desired link and the name of the future bookmark in the required fields. When you hover over the created tabs, you will see a control panel with four main buttons (delete a bookmark, change settings or update a site screenshot). Yandex visual bookmarks can be freely dragged to any place you like, which allows you to sort sites in the desired sequence.
Bookmark settings
At the very bottom of your browser's home page there is a "Settings" button. With its help you can change the panels with bookmarks. For example, you can change the number of rectangles, adjust the refresh rate of screenshots, and add a background.
Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox
This version of the application allows you not only to manually add your favorite sites to bookmarks, but now it itself can insert screenshots of the most visited Internet resources into the panel. If you are not satisfied with this state of affairs and you want the most necessary bookmarks to remain in place, then move the mouse cursor over the selected one and use the corresponding icon to pin the bookmark in place. The gear-shaped button is necessary to change the site address. Now you know all the intricacies of visual bookmarks, from installing them to setting them up appearance. We wish you good luck in your work!
One of the most useful and best browser add-ons today are Yandex visual bookmarks. With their help, you can use the capabilities of Internet resources with greater comfort, selecting and ranking sites that interest you. This way, you can save a lot of time searching for a lost page. In this article we will talk about how to do this in several steps.
Setting bookmarks in Yandex browser
To add visual bookmarks you need to do the following:
- Initially, open an empty tab by clicking on the “+” icon in the upper right corner of the window. The same action can be performed by pressing the key combination “CTRL+N”.
- You will see a short list of sites that you have recently visited.
- If you want to add a new resource to the extension, click on the “Add site” option.
- Then enter the name of the web portal or paste it from the address bar.
- After that, click on the search result so that the system adds the site to the list.
- Ready! You can now use the saved bookmark.
If you want to swap some sites, you just need to hold down the mouse button and “drag” to the desired place. And to remove an unnecessary resource from the list, you need to click on the cross icon at the top of the bookmark itself. To confirm your actions, click “Done” and that’s it.
How to install Yandex visual bookmarks for Google Chrome
If you prefer to use Chrome, then to install add-ons you will need to do the following:
To disable visual bookmarks for Yandex, you will need to go to the “Settings and Management” menu, then go to the “Tools” category, where the system will display the “Extensions” option. Just uncheck the box next to “Enabled” in this extension and the process will be completed.
How to install extensions in Mozilla?
To add bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox you will need to do a few simple steps:
Thus, we have looked at the main ways that will help you fix the necessary additions to Yandex in order to make the process of using web resources with maximum comfort.
Are you constantly confused by bookmarks in search of the right web resource? Place the most visited sites on the browser start page - this will make surfing much easier. You can do this using the Visual Bookmarks add-on from Yandex.
These “tiles” look more than attractive.
Visual bookmarks - what are they?
Visual bookmarks are a list of your bookmarks in the browser, displayed as organized icons on the start page and in a new browser tab. The maximum number of links that can be placed is 25, which is quite enough for comfortable access to the most visited resources.
Visual bookmarks from Yandex compare favorably with competitors thanks to:
- Easy to install and configure;
- They do not load the browser with additional advertising;
- The design is thought out to the smallest detail;
- Ability to import/export your own bookmarks directly into the panel.
Installation methods
Install Visual Bookmarks in Chrome browsers, Mozilla, Opera in two ways:
- Download a special extension from the store, for example, chrome.google.com/webstore or addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox.
- Install Yandex elements from the page element.yandex.ru.
In the Yandex browser, bookmarks, like , are part of it; you just need to enable them in the settings.
Enable bookmarks in Yandex Browser
1. By default, bookmarks are already enabled and appear in a new tab. If they are not there, go to settings.
2. Enable the items shown in the screenshot and restart the browser.
3. Switch to the “Scoreboard” section and the coveted “tiles” will appear in front of you.
Custom Settings
You can add the site you need or rearrange the list by clicking on the inscription “Customize screen”.
To make changes, use the buttons indicated in the figure and at the end, confirm by clicking on “Done”.
Visual bookmarks for FireFox and Chrome
As mentioned above, there are two options for installing Visual Bookmarks in third-party browsers.
Installation and configuration will be carried out in Mozilla, believe me, the differences from Google Chrome are minimal and you can easily repeat all the steps.
Special extension
1. The first method is to install a special extension for Mozilla. Download and activate it from the link - addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/yandex-visual-bookmarks/, from the official add-on store.
2. Open a new tab - the bookmarks should already appear. Go to settings and adjust the number of addresses displayed and their appearance.
3. You can sort the “tiles” to your liking by simply dragging them across the screen. To change or delete an address, hover your mouse over it and wait until the settings icons appear.
Element.yandex.ru
1. The website element.yandex.ru was created so that users do not embarrass themselves long searches the desired extension in stores - just press one button.
The setup is no different from the procedure described above.
How to remove visual bookmarks
As you may have already understood, you cannot delete bookmarks from them - you can only hide them by doing all the steps in reverse order.
To remove it from Chrome and FireFox, go to the add-ons section and delete the “Visual Bookmarks” extension.
How to restore bookmarks
When you change your browser or move to a new computer, there is a need to transfer and restore previously added bookmarks.
You can restore them only if you have a previously saved data file. The method for obtaining it depends on the browser used, which we will discuss below.
Yandex browser
1. To save all data in the Yandex browser, go to the bookmark manager.
2. By clicking on the “Arrange” inscription, select “Export all bookmarks to an HTML file”.
3. Save the file in a safe place, and if you need to restore, do the same steps, selecting “Copy bookmarks from HTML file” at the end.
Visual bookmarks
Saving bookmarks using the Visual Bookmarks add-on is no different in other browsers.
1. Going to the add-on settings, select “Save to file”.
2. To restore – “Load from file”.
To summarize today's review, it should be emphasized that the add-on in question makes surfing the Internet much easier. Installation and configuration does not cause any special problems for users, apparently the experience of Yandex employees has affected it.
And most importantly, visual bookmarks are absolutely free and do not pose a threat to your computer.
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