Constantly confused in bookmarks in search of the desired web resource? Put the most visited sites on the browser start page - this will greatly facilitate surfing. You can do this using the Visual Bookmarks add-on from Yandex.
These "tiles" look more than attractive.
Visual bookmarks - what is it
Visual Bookmarks is a list of your browser bookmarks, displayed as organized icons on the start page and in a new browser tab. Maximum amount links that can be placed - 25 pieces, for comfortable access to the most visited resources, it is enough.
Visual bookmarks from Yandex compare favorably with competitors, thanks to:
- Ease of installation and configuration;
- 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 to the panel.
Installation methods
Set Visual Bookmarks to Chrome browsers, Mozilla, Opera in two ways:
- Download a special extension from the store, for example, chrome.google.com/webstore or addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox.
- Install Yandex elements from the element.yandex.ru page.
In the Yandex browser, bookmarks, like , are part of it, they just need to be enabled in the settings.
Enable bookmarks in Yandex Browser
1. By default, bookmarks are already enabled and displayed in a new tab. If not, then go to settings.
2. Enable the items indicated in the screenshot and restart the browser.
3. Switch to the "Scoreboard" section and the desired "tiles" will appear in front of you.
User settings
You can add the desired site or arrange the list by clicking on the inscription - "Customize screen".
To make changes, use the buttons shown in the figure and at the end, confirm by clicking on "Finish".
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-ons store.
2. Open new tab- bookmarks should already appear. Go to the settings and adjust the number of displayed addresses and their appearance.
3. Sort the "tiles" to your liking by simply dragging them around the screen. To change or delete an address, move the mouse cursor over it and wait until the settings icons appear.
Element.yandex.ru
1. The site element.yandex.ru was created so that users do not bother themselves with long searches desired extension in stores - just press one button.
Setting up is no different from the above procedure.
How to remove visual bookmarks
As you might have already understood, deleting bookmarks from will not work - you can only hide them by doing all the steps in reverse order.
To remove from Chrome and FireFox, go to the add-ons section and delete the Visual Bookmarks extension.
How to restore bookmarks
When changing browser or moving to 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 of 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 inscription "Organize", select the item "Export all bookmarks to an HTML file".
3. Save the file in a safe place, and if you need to restore it, follow the same steps, selecting "Copy bookmarks from HTML file" at the end.
Visual bookmarks
Saving bookmarks using the Visual Bookmarks add-on is not particularly different in other browsers.
1. Going to the add-on settings, select "Save to file".
2. For recovery - "Load from file".
Summing up, today's review, it should be emphasized that the add-on in question greatly facilitates surfing the Internet. Installation and configuration does not cause any special problems for users, apparently the experience of Yandex employees affected.
And most importantly - visual bookmarks are absolutely free and do not pose a threat to the computer.
Nowadays, almost every person has access to the Internet and uses it every day to see the weather for the coming days, news, movie premieres. And to go to a familiar site, you need to enter its name in address bar or select it from the list of previously saved bookmarks. Agree, this is not always convenient.
Using visual bookmarks will make this task easier. They appear when you open a new tab in the browser. With their help, you have quick access to visited sites, which are presented in the form of thumbnails.
To set Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox first, you need to download the extension file, which is called - visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox. We write the corresponding request in the Yandex search engine. Then click on the button "Install".
A new Visual Bookmarks tab opens. We read the information, scroll to the end and click "Install".
An information window of the following type may appear, click "Allow".
Now restart Firefox.
The next window displays a list of add-ons, in which there are three new ones, only installed. For example, I do not need Yandex.Advisor, so feel free to click "Delete". If you are in doubt and may want to use this add-on in the future, click "Disable" and restart your browser.
Visual bookmarking is complete. Now let's look at some settings.
To open visual bookmarks, click on the plus sign ABOVE, i.e. open a new tab.
The page will look like in the picture below: visual bookmarks are presented in the form of a matrix, they save a link to the site and are made in the form of a site logo with a corresponding title.
Further in the lower right corner, click "Settings". Here you can choose the number of bookmarks that will appear when you open a new tab, and the background. Then click on the button "More Options".
Here you can choose the type of bookmarks, make visual bookmarks start page, which will be loaded when the browser is opened. If you want the search bar and bookmarks bar to be displayed at the top of the window, check the boxes next to these items.
AT default settings the matrix of visual bookmarks is formed from the most popular sites. Thumbnails can be placed in any order, for this, simply click on the selected tab with the left mouse button, and, without releasing the mouse button, drag the image to the desired square. To add a bookmark, click on the corresponding button in the lower right corner.
Then we select a site from the proposed ones: popular, recently visited, or enter the page address on our own. Click on it with the left mouse button, and it appears in the matrix.
For convenience, at the bottom of the page of visual bookmarks there are buttons for quick access to closed tabs, downloads, bookmarks, history.
When hovering over the thumbnail, three icons appear in the upper right corner. The first pins the bookmark so that when new bookmarks are added, the pinned one stays in place.
The second, in the form of a gear, is necessary to change the site to which this bookmark will lead.
With the help of the third, you can delete the bookmark.
To remove or disable visual bookmarks in the "Menu" of the browser, select "Add-ons", the image was presented earlier. And opposite addition "Visual bookmarks" click the "Delete" or "Disable" button. Then we restart the browser, after which the extension will be removed from Mozilla Firefox.
What are Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox, we figured out how to install, configure and, if desired, remove them from your computer.
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Visual bookmarks - This is by far the most convenient type of add-on for working with favorite and frequently visited pages. Their display allows you not to waste time searching desired page, so the installation of such an add-on will be useful to every Internet user. Below we will look at visual bookmarks from Yandex: installation, configuration, and the main functions available to users.
Visual bookmarks are part of the Yandex. 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, in some browsers they may be turned off. To activate, go from the browser to the extensions management menu (for example, you need to select the browser menu, open "Additional tools" and select "Extensions".
Listed installed extensions find "Visual bookmarks" and check the box "Enable".
Now, when you create a new tab in the browser, you will see visual bookmarks from Yandex. You already have 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 delete unwanted bookmarks, move the mouse cursor to the right top corner tiles 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, the third icon removes 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 presented quality images. You can also upload your own images if needed.
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 to 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 personalized.
We welcome you all to our website again. Today we will return to Google browser Chrome and see how to set visual bookmarks. What are visual bookmarks? These are special extensions for different browsers, which 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, check back.
By default, Google Chrome has visual bookmarks from frequently visited sites.
Everything seems to be fine. But... As you visit other sites, some bookmarks may be automatically replaced with new ones that you have recently visited frequently. And you would not want to lose links of sites 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 them easier to manage, we will install the Yandex Visual Bookmarks extension for Google Chrome from the Google Web Store.
To do this, go to the main menu of the browser, select "Additional tools", then "Extensions"
We will see a list of all installed extensions.
We go down to the very bottom and click "More extensions".
We get to the Chrome web store. In the search field, we drive our query "Visual bookmarks", press Enter. In the search results, select the Extensions section and select the extensions 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 successfully install. To view, open a new tab.
Visual bookmark settings
In the middle are the 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 desired 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 image is displayed with a checkmark.
Other options. By clicking on this button, you will have access to additional settings.
Here you can customize the type of bookmarks. The default is Logos and Headers. In this case, the site logo and its title will be displayed on the tab. You can also select "Logos and Screenshots" and "Website 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 place for her. If you do not have, then increase the number of bookmarks displayed in the settings, or delete the existing one. How? You will learn more about this below. If there is no free cell, the "Add bookmark" button will be inactive.
So we add new bookmark. We click on the desired button.
Immediately below, a panel opens 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 it 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 on the desired tab once.
We want to add a bookmark to the site for viewing the weather forecast. Enter the address in the field. In order to specify or change your description of the site, 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 move our created bookmark to the first place. To do this, click on it with the mouse and without releasing the left button, drag it to the place of the first one. Release the left mouse button.
Everything, now our bookmark is in the first place. In a similar way, you can customize the display order of your bookmarks.
You can perform certain actions on each tab. Let's consider them. To do this, move the mouse cursor over the bookmark to display additional small buttons.
Lock. It happens as a closed lock (as in our example) and an open lock. A closed lock indicates that this tab is Fixed in this position. This means that even if you for a long time You will not use this bookmark, it will still remain in its place. It will not be replaced by other bookmarks that you often use.
An open padlock means the opposite. Your bookmark is unpinned and can be replaced with other bookmarks. To select a mode, you just need to click on the lock.
Gear. With it, you can edit bookmark, set a different address and description. The process is similar to adding a bookmark.
To remove visual bookmark click on the cross and confirm your actions.
Well, on this, perhaps, and finish. We hope that the article has become useful and interesting for you. See you soon.
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Users view daily great amount websites. For the convenience of visiting your favorite resources, many create bookmarks. Unfortunately, a browser like Google Chrome has one significant drawback. The web browser does not provide visual bookmarks.
When you create new tabs, the websites you visit most often appear instead of bookmarks. This is not very convenient, so you need to figure out how to set visual bookmarks for Google Chrome.
Adding visual tabs
Many beginners don't know, but adding visual bookmarks to Google Chrome is easy. Bookmarks are visualized by installing extensions. On the this moment there are several different add-ons that can be installed in chrome, namely:
- From Yandex;
- From ru;
- speed dial.
Each extension is unique. The user himself needs to decide which virtual module is best for him to use. It should be noted that in each extension it is possible to create backup settings.
Bookmarks Yandex
Most users prefer to install Yandex visual bookmarks for Google Chrome. To add a plugin, you should open the menu in the web browser, and then select "Settings".
In the page that opens, you need to select the "Extensions" section, and then scrolling to the very bottom of the list, select "More extensions".
When the Google store opens, in the search bar you need to write "Visual bookmarks". After that, press Enter to start searching for the extension.
After 2 seconds, visual bookmarks available for the Chrome browser will appear on the screen. The first on the list will be the extension from Yandex. To install it, just click "Install".
It will take a few seconds to install Yandex bookmarks. After that, the user, having created a new tab, will see the bookmarks bar.
Panel setup
Having created a new tab, the user will see several buttons in addition to the graphical tabs:
- Closed tabs;
- downloads;
- bookmarks;
- Story;
- Add bookmarks;
- Settings.
To customize the panel for yourself, you must click on the "Customize" button.
In the opened form, the user can change:
- Number of tabs (from 1 to 25);
- Type of bookmarks;
- The background under the tabs;
- Extra options.
Thanks to flexible customization, users will be able to customize the visual panel so that it is more convenient for them to use it.
Mail.ru bookmarks
In addition to the Yandex panel, users can integrate visual bookmarks from Mail.ru into the browser. To do this, it is recommended to enter the Google store, and then enter "Remote" in the search bar.
After pressing Enter, the results will be loaded search query. Visual bookmarks from Mail.ru for Google Chrome will be listed first. You must click on the "Install" button to download the extension.
If desired, the panel can be customized to your taste by adding an interesting design.
By creating a new tab, users will see the search bar, as well as any previously added bookmarks. On the working panel only 12 bookmarks fit, if there are more, another virtual panel is created. To go to it, just move the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen.
At the bottom of the screen there is a panel with several buttons:
If you click on the "Remote settings" button, a form will open in which the panel style is configured, you need to select the topic of interest.
You can upload your own image or photo if you wish. In fact, there is nothing complicated, even a beginner can handle the settings.
Speed Dial Plugin
The most beautiful visual tab bar for chrome is the Speed Dial add-on. This is a real masterpiece that creates a 3D panel. To start downloading the add-on, you need to open the Google store, and then enter "Speed Dial" in the search.
The expansion will be the first in search results. To install the add-on, as usual, click on the "Install" button.
Installation takes about 10 seconds because the extension is over 2MB in size. After integrating with the browser, you can start setting up the add-on.
Panel setup
By creating a new tab, the user will see a completely new navigation area, consisting of the following blocks:
- Settings;
- Tab areas;
- Tab group areas;
- The string to search.
When you click on the gear icon, the settings window opens, in which the visualization of the tabs changes.
In addition, you can see that there is a panel on the top that configures:
- Group "Popular";
- Group "Recently Closed";
- Font;
- Widgets.
Thanks to flexible settings, the panel is customized for each person, depending on his preferences.
Disabling an add-on
Many users know how to set visual bookmarks for google chrome, but do not know how they are disabled or removed. First you need to go to "extensions". Then follows among all installed add-ons find the one you want to turn off.
On the right side of the extension, there is a checkmark in the "Enabled" box. To disable it, just uncheck the box. If you want to remove the add-on, you need to click on the trash can icon. After that, the Visual Bookmarks extension will be removed.
Removing extensions is most often necessary if the browser has begun to “slow down” and load websites for a long time. Sometimes it is enough to reinstall the extension and the problem will disappear.
Visual tabs not showing
Sometimes beginners are faced with the lack of screenshots of websites in visual bookmarks from Yandex. Most often, this problem occurs after updating the extension. Instead of screenshots, users see only logos and names of Internet resources.
To fix the situation, you need to enter the bookmark settings, and then in the "Bookmark type" field, set "Screenshots". In addition, in order to quickly configure the extension in the future, you need to do backup. A previously saved settings file can be loaded into the browser.
Conclusion
In practice, it is clear that even a beginner can install an extension with visual bookmarks. Sometimes it can be difficult to choose an addition. In this case, it is recommended to install the necessary extensions one by one.
After installation, you need to "play" with the settings. Only in this way, it is possible to customize the panel for yourself. If the extension does not work correctly or you just don't like it, you can uninstall it.
It should be noted that in addition to the above add-ons in the Google store, you can find about a dozen more extensions that allow you to create virtual panel. Do not be afraid to experiment, as add-ons can always be disabled or removed.
How to set visual bookmarks