How to install visual bookmarks in the Google Chrome browser. How to make tabs in Yandex

In a web browser Mozilla Firefox There is 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. U of this product has its own website, so you don't have to waste time finding it in the directory.

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 don't 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.

We welcome you all to our website again. Today we're going back to the browser Google Chrome and see how to set visual bookmarks. What are visual bookmarks? These are special extensions for various browsers that allow the user to go to the most frequently visited sites in one click. They can be used as an addition to the regular bookmarks bar in the browser window. If you don't know how to add a website link to your bookmarks bar, go back.

By default, Google Chrome comes with visual bookmarks from frequently visited sites.

Everything seems to be fine. But... As you visit other sites, some bookmarks may be replaced automatically with new ones that you are in lately visited often. And you wouldn’t want to lose site links that are useful to you. And the number of 8 pieces is not always sufficient to ensure that all sites are always at hand. To increase the number of visual bookmarks and make it easier to manage them, we will install the Yandex Visual Bookmarks extension for Google Chrome from the Google online store.

To do this, go to the main menu of the browser, select “Additional tools”, then “Extensions”

A list of all installed extensions will open in front of us.

We go down to the very bottom and click “More extensions”.

We get to the Chrome online store. In the search field, enter our query “Visual bookmarks” and press Enter. In the search results, select the Extensions section and select the extension we need by clicking on the Install button.

Before the extension is installed, we will be asked to confirm the installation. We give our consent. After a few seconds, the extension will install successfully. To view, open a new tab.

Visual bookmark settings

In the middle there are buttons for quick access to closed bookmarks, viewing downloaded files, bookmarks and History.

Let's first set up our visual bookmarks. To do this, in the lower right part of the screen, click on the “Settings” button.

The first setting is the Number of bookmarks. Here you can specify the required number of bookmarks. The maximum number is 25.

Background. Thanks to this setting, you can set the background either from the provided images, or upload your own by clicking “Upload”. The selected picture is displayed with a tick.

Other options. By clicking on this button, you will have access to additional settings.

Here you can configure the type of bookmarks. The default is “Logos and Headings”. In this case, the site logo and its title will be displayed on the tab. You can also select “Logos and screenshots” and “Site screenshots”.

How to add a visual bookmark?

Now let's move on to managing bookmarks. Let's start with adding. In order to add a bookmark to an interesting site, you need to click on the “Add Bookmark” button. But at the same time you must have free space for her. If you don’t have one, then increase the number of displayed bookmarks in the settings, or delete the existing one. How? You will learn about this below. If there is no free cell, the “Add bookmark” button will be inactive.

So we add a new bookmark. Click on the desired button.

A panel opens immediately below for adding the address of a new bookmark

We see where our added bookmark will go (the area is marked in white). You can add either by entering the site address yourself, or by using the Popular and Recently Visited lists. To add from the list, you just need to click once on the desired tab.

We want to add a bookmark to the weather forecast viewing site. Enter the address in the field. To specify or change your site description, click “Edit Description”. Enter your description in the second field that opens and press Enter.

Bookmark management

Bookmarks can be managed: moved to another location, edited, deleted.

Let's let's move our created bookmark in first place. To do this, click on it with the mouse and, without releasing the left button, drag it to the first place. Release the left mouse button.

That's it, now our bookmark is in first place. Similarly, you can customize the display order of your bookmarks.

You can perform certain actions on each bookmark. Let's look at them. To do this, move the mouse cursor over the bookmark to display additional small buttons.

Lock. There can be either a closed lock (as in our example) or an open lock. A closed lock indicates that this tab is secured in this position. This means that even if you for a long time If you don’t use this bookmark, it will still remain in its place. It won't be replaced by other bookmarks that you use frequently.

An open lock means the opposite. Your bookmark is Unpinned and can be replaced by other bookmarks. To select a mode, you just need to click on the lock.

Gear. With its help you can edit bookmark, set a different address and description. The process is similar to adding a bookmark.

In order to delete visual bookmark click on the cross and confirm your actions.

Well, I guess we'll end here. We hope that you found the article useful and interesting. See you soon.

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The article describes how to install and use Yandex visual bookmarks for various browsers.

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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 " VKontakte" These visual bookmarks are usually located in each new browser tab.

Visual bookmarks from the company " Yandex» are very popular and 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 it. 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. Click on " 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's 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 here appearance bookmarks

A little lower you can change the background of 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. Remove add-on visual settings from the browser, just like 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 each 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

After Yandex developed its own search engine he updated most of the services. The so-called improvement also affected the Mazil search engine, which many users did not like very much.

That is why the question of returning to old version saved resources in Firefox.

Restoring visual bookmarks

Before starting the procedure, you need to remove the new addition. To do this, open the Firefox menu and click on the “Add-ons” column, then activate the Extensions item.

First of all, you need to download the file from previous version and drag it into the open browser window. After completing these manipulations, the browser will open the installation window, where you will need to click on the Run Now button.

After the restart is complete, you need to go to the search engine menu and select the Add-ons column. In this column you should find the Extensions item and go to the Manage add-ons tab. To prevent visual bookmarks from disappearing next to the item of the same name, you must select the More details link.

After this, you need to disable the program update by checking the box next to Disabled. This will prevent the extension from changing automatically.

If previously saved data was lost, then it is worth trying to restore it from a backup copy. To do this, in the search engine settings, you need to select the Import and backup item and look at the possible recovery options.

Features of work

If you managed to return the old visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox, then you need to further consolidate the positive result. To do this, after disconnecting automatic update you should do the following:

The newly opened search engine will immediately display the home page in old uniform saved resources for Mazilla.

When answering the question of how to return to its previous appearance, one cannot fail to mention that links from Yandex can also be optimized at your discretion.

In a special window you can set the update frequency, the number of links, or set a new background image. The missing interface becomes fully accessible to the user. Recovery also involves additional activation of the necessary parameters. The user can, for example, display a panel of sites or change their number in the browser window.

To add new resources, select an empty window and left-click. Then find in the displayed area one of those sites that have recently been closed or enter the address of another.

If necessary, the windows can be moved. The following operations with resources are available to the user:

Editing.
Update.
Delete.

Restore old look Saving sites in Firefox is quite simple. To do this, you just need to select the previous modification of the panel from Yandex, install it and configure it according to your preferences.

Hello friends! In today's article we will look at how to set visual bookmarks in Mozilla browser Firefox, we will dwell in detail on those developed by Yandex and learn how to configure a panel with them in this web browser.

Unlike the Yandex and Opera browsers, in Mozilla they are not a built-in feature. Therefore, to install them in Mozilla, you will need to download and install one of the suitable extensions in the browser.

Setting visual bookmarks

The principle of installing different browser extensions is no different. Accordingly, following further recommendations, you can install any add-on in Mozilla Firefox, thus expanding the capabilities of your Internet browser. This could be, for example, a page translator or a widget for weather and mail.

If you are interested, read the article by following the link.

You can install the extension we are interested in in Mozilla Firefox using the browser add-on manager. To do this, click on the button with three horizontal lines in the upper right corner and select “Add-ons” from the drop-down list.

On the left side, go to the “Get Add-ons” tab.

To view all search results, scroll down the list and click on the “View 195 results” button (there may be a different number).

To find out more about the selected extension, click on the “Details” button next to it. To install the extension in the browser, click “Install”, and then, in the window that appears, confirm the installation. After this, you may need to restart the browser.

After installing the selected add-on, its icon will appear to the right of the address bar. The most popular are Speed Dial, Fast Dial, Atavi. You can read more in another article on the site.

Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox

Now let's look at how to install them from Yandex in Mozilla Firefox. The required extension can be found in the list through the add-on manager, as described above. Then click Add to Firefox.

Another way to add them to Mozilla is to enter “visual bookmarks for mozilla” in the search bar. Under the first link, click "Install".

The Yandex Elements page, or, as they were called before, Yandex Bar, will open in a new tab. The set of these elements also includes visual bookmarks. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “Install” button.

Allow installation in the window that appears.

Once everything is downloaded, click Install, then restart your browser.

Setting up visual bookmarks

After installing the selected extension in the browser, you need to configure it in Mozilla Firefox.

First, let's see where they are. Click on the button with three horizontal stripes in the upper right corner and select “Add-ons”. Next, go to the “Extensions” tab. Here you will see a list of all extensions that are installed in the browser. At the previous point, in addition to what we needed, two more components were installed; if they are not needed, remove them by clicking on the corresponding button.

Let's move on to the settings. Let's look at this using the example of visual bookmarks from Yandex. Open a new tab in Mozilla by clicking on the plus sign in the top line.

The Yandex search bar will be displayed at the top, and below it there will be a panel with miniature images of the selected sites. By clicking on any of them, you will immediately go to the desired site. Below you will see buttons with which you can go to downloads, favorite sites, history, and view recently closed tabs.