All visual bookmarks. How to make tabs in Yandex
Mozilla Firefox– a flexible browser-designer that can be supplemented with various functionality using built-in extensions. This functionality includes an express panel of visual bookmarks for quick and convenient access to users’ favorite sites.
Mozilla Firefox comes pre-installed with quite powerful functionality for working with regular bookmarks, including the ability to quickly add favorite sites to the browser collection, sort bookmarks into thematic folders, as well as export, import and create them backup copies. But the pre-installed visual bookmarks that open in a new browser tab leave much to be desired - the number of cells for selected sites is limited, and adding new thumbnails is possible only after deleting old ones from free cells. In this case, free cells are filled only by automatically adjusting new sites from the browser history to them.
Let's look for more impressive and practical express visual bookmark panels for the Fire Fox in the extension store. Let's look at the best of them.
5 Best Visual Bookmark Express Panels for Mozilla Firefox Browser
How to equip the browser with various extensions, including specifically Mozilla Firefox, is described in the article “”.
Top-PageThe Top-Page extension is a cross-platform solution that will certainly be of interest to those who constantly change browsers or computer devices.
The Top-Page.Ru web service offers a completely free service for storing user bookmarks in the online organization of an express panel of site thumbnails.
Once you set up the express panel and organize your favorite sites on it, you can instantly access visual bookmarks from any browser window, on any device - be it a computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. To do this, you just need to first register in the Top-Page.Ru web service and then log in.
The Top-Page express panel for visual bookmarks is not the best masterpiece of design, it is far from the most advanced functional product, however, it is possible to change the background image and adjust the number of thumbnails of selected sites by width.
To add a site to your Top-Page visual bookmarks, click the empty cell with the plus sign and enter the web address. If you are too lazy to enter the name, you don’t need to do this. The name will be generated automatically.
Another cross-platform option for organizing an express panel of visual bookmarks in Mozilla browser Firefox - Atavi Bookmarks from the free web service Atavi.Com.
But these bookmarks, unlike all other express panels presented in this review, are installed not from the Mozilla Firefox extension store, but from the Yandex Elements website.
Fast Dial is a custom extension for Mozilla Firefox.
In its settings, the number of visual bookmark cells displayed on the page can be adjusted by setting any numeric value for width and length. The size of the bookmark cells themselves can also be adjusted.
In Fast Dial settings
You can set your own background image for the visual bookmarks express panel. You can also choose the design of the cells, the font of the inscriptions and other design details.
To add a new visual bookmark, click on an empty cell and enter the web address of your favorite site. Each visual bookmark can have its own logo, as well as assign hot keys for quick access.
Fast Dial is one of the most beautiful express visual bookmark panels in the Mozilla Firefox extension store.
But, at the same time, it is somewhat inferior to the next participant in the review - the FVD visual bookmarks express panel Speed Dial.
FVD Speed DialFVD Speed Dial is perhaps the most beautiful, most impressive, most functional, most customizable express visual bookmark panel for Mozilla Firefox.
But, at the same time, it is also the heaviest.
The effects and functionality of the extension may slow down the browser on weak computer devices. Alas, you always have to sacrifice something.
FVD Speed Dial contains a lot of settings, thanks to which the design and organization of the express panel can be finely tuned to your taste - choose a beautiful background image, adjust the font of the inscriptions, set the transparency of the buttons, specify the size of the cells, etc.
FVD Speed Dial allows you to organize visual bookmarks into thematic groups, thereby preventing the express panel from becoming cluttered with bookmarks. In this case, a group of popular bookmarks from regularly visited sites is formed automatically. Switching between groups is very convenient; their links are neatly lined up at the top of the express panel.
To add a new visual bookmark, we traditionally click on the empty cell with a plus sign on the express panel, enter the web address of the site, and we can assign a group, title, and image from among those suggested for the bookmark.
Despite the fact that FVD Speed Dial is far from being an accomplice to the performance of Mozilla Firefox, the advantages of this express panel of visual bookmarks are obvious - beauty will save the world.
Users of low-power netbooks and older PC builds can, for example, abandon the bulky background image, leaving the preset background of the Express panel white, so as not to burden the browser.
Before getting into the meat of the article, first let's try to learn what visual bookmarks for Firefox are? This is what you see on the browser start page. This is a kind of navigation menu for your most frequently visited sites.
Thanks to visual bookmarks you can access all the right pages in one click, and in the literal sense of the word. There is no need to enter the site address in the address bar, or search for it through search engines such as Google and Yandex. Just click on a special bookmark on the main page of the browser, and you will immediately be transferred to the page you requested.
Why do you need Yandex visual bookmarks?
This is a completely logical question, since the Mozilla Firefox browser initially already has its own stock visual bookmarks. But in essence they are not. Indeed, the Firefox home page shows you the pages you visit most often. Such bookmarks are inconvenient because, for example, you visit a site several times, and it will be listed on home page, forced. Simply put, they do not have a sufficient number of functions and settings that an advanced user requires in order to realize maximum convenience and comfort when working with a website browser.
That is why it is worth paying attention to such an addition as Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox. They allow you to install static site tabs, let's call them that, and customize them the way you want. Plus, the add-on is constantly updated, which brings new features with each subsequent version.
Now that you already know the purpose of this extension, we can begin to describe how to download and install it. This is discussed below.
Downloading and installing visual bookmarks from Yandex
Downloading and installing the extension is done through the Mozilla add-on store. Therefore, it is necessary immediately launch browser Firefox. Then open menu(the icon is in the upper right corner of the browser panel). Select item from the menu "Extras". Or just press Ctrl+Shift+A to open the desired page.
Amazing. After these steps, you will open a special page where your add-ons installed in the browser are collected. We need to go to the store, so while on the page " Get Add-ons" scroll down. And when you see the button " View more additions!”, click on it.
Clicking on this blue button will open the market we need additional applications for Mozilla. In the search form, write: “ Visual bookmarks from Yandex". And among the results at the very top, click on the corresponding link to open the page with the add-on.
Great! Press the blue button " Add to Firefox" and wait for the download to finish.
When it ends, a pop-up window will appear where you need to click on the “ Add".
So we installed visual bookmarks from Yandex. A corresponding icon has appeared on the Mozilla panel.
Now you can start using and configuring them. How to use them is written below.
How to use and set up
And so, after installation, instead of the standard home page a new one will open, with bookmarks from Yandex. Initially, some bookmarks will be installed on it. If you don’t need them and you don’t want them to take up extra space on your monitor screen, then no problem, you can delete them. To do this, simply hover over the desired tab with your mouse cursor and wait until the settings and delete icons appear. After that, click the cross to delete the tab, and confirm your action by clicking the button "Yes". If you need to change the name or address of the site, click on the gear icon.
How to add a tab to a panel
Setting up Yandex visual bookmarks
You can customize appearance tabs and the page on which they reside. Change the background, specify the number of tabs on the screen (maximum 25), and add many other settings. To do this, you must first open a special menu. It is launched by clicking on the link " Settings" on the start page.
All the necessary settings are there. I think there is no need to describe anything here, since everything is already clear there. Experiment to achieve maximum convenience and comfort during use.
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 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. Usually in this application already includes such a tab as “VKontakte” and “Yandex News”. But that's 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.
Today we will talk about visual bookmarks for browsers. I will tell you what they are, what they are for, how to install them in your browser, and why such bookmarks are better than regular text bookmarks.
Described below, step by step and in pictures, visual bookmarks work in the most popular Internet browsers today - Google Chrome and Mozilla. Naturally, all other browsers using the same engines (Blink - new Opera, Yandex.Browser, SRWare Iron... and Gecko - Pale Moon, CometBird, SeaMonkey...) also wonderfully and fully support this very necessary, high-quality addition.
Today I will also teach you how to save (and restore) your visual bookmarks, for example, in case of sudden death operating system, and also synchronize them between different browsers. Yes, you understood everything correctly - you can transfer (copy) these bookmarks from Google Chrome to Mozilla. We made a bookmark in one browser and it appeared in the second - very convenient and practical, I tell you.
What are visual bookmarks
Every browser has a bookmark feature. If you liked a site, you bookmarked it and you can return to it in a week or a year. Comfortable. But over time, dozens and even hundreds of these bookmarks accumulate - how not to get confused in them, how to remember what kind of site you saved a month ago?
Favicons (site icons) don’t help the situation much, as you can see, and these are only 11 bookmarks that I just made on purpose (since I don’t use this method of saving sites I like at all).
Browser manufacturers quickly came up with bookmark bars (usually located below the address bar). Not the best way out of the situation, it seems to me. You already know how I feel about different toolbars and panels who steal workspace in browsers. And this did not make ordinary text bookmarks any more informative.
And here they come on stage visual bookmarks! These are not just bookmarks, but small images of the sites that you liked, their pictures...
Useful additional information on the website:
You can also imagine them as windows on the Internet.
This is how they look in Mozilla Firefox 23.
Why are visual bookmarks better than regular text bookmarks?
With visual bookmarks, there is no need to look for hundreds of lines of small text for the page title - you see this page right away! Before your brain even has time to turn on, you have already found the desired bookmark and clicked on the picture to go to the site.
Visual bookmarks can be easily sorted into groups (tabs) - for example, “Movies”, “Cooking”, “Auto”, “Mom’s”, “Dad’s”...
You can also update, change, delete, add, move from group to group or higher and lower in the browser window... in short, sort and mock them as you please.
More useful additional information on the website:
I think you get the point - such bookmarks are more informative, more convenient, more practical, more attractive... the usual and boring bookmarks built into the browser. They are simple, clearer!
What are visual bookmarks?
Visual bookmarks first appeared in Opera browser(2007) and they were called Speed Dial. Users liked this concept of saving popular pages so much that very soon all other browsers (of course, except Internet Explorer) have acquired many additions and extensions that implement a similar function.
I have already described such additions in detail to you in the articles “ 6 Must-Have Mozilla Firefox Add-ons " And " Top extensions for Google Chrome » .
In addition to add-ons and extensions to browsers, entire visual bookmarking services have appeared on the Internet. For example, top-page and onlinezakladki. But, firstly, the method of distributing the first service is very reminiscent of forced imposition (yeah, remember Yandex.Bar?).
This is what they write about it on the Internet - “What kind of garbage is this - top-page...”, “How to remove from home page ominous top-page...", "[email protected]: help how to remove top-page...", "How to remove top-page in Windows...". These are excerpts from the first page of search engine results for the query “top-page”!
The “prevalence” of this service is easily explained - for its advertising and positive reviews they pay money about him. They also contacted me and offered to describe it for a fee. Refused - reputation is more important than any money!
And secondly, all these services are very friendly with Yandex. All have a permanently built-in search bar on half the screen from this search engine! By the way, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that this is my attitude towards this company .
So, I'm not greedy - here at this link You will be taken to the visual bookmarks page from Yandex for Google Chrome. But! The number of settings (or rather the lack thereof) is simply amazing. You won’t be able to remove the search bar from half the screen, and a more or less decent view of the bookmarks is obtained only when the number of windows is 7 by 3 = 21. Only 21 bookmarks! No groups or tabs! You can, of course, set the maximum available number of bookmarks (48), but you won’t be able to view anything in them.
And here it is Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla . Here things are a little better - you can even remove the search bar (monstrous and frightening generosity from Yandex)! A little more variety of backgrounds... but only 25 windows for bookmarks! Of course, without groups and tabs!
So as not to deprive you of the opportunity to choose I provide a link to the review article about similar bookmarking services. Read, choose, swear, spit, delete and read on.
From all of the above, I think you understand that this is not our choice! What is ours like?
FVD Speed Dial - the best visual bookmarks for the most popular browsers
Here's a great video description of this extension for Google Chrome...
You can download this extension via direct official link - it will be installed immediately in your Google Chrome.
As you can see from the video, this extension has a lot of settings, you can very easily customize it for yourself...
In the “View” setting, you can give your visual bookmarks a 3D effect.
You can customize the size and color of the fonts, set your own background color, or even insert any photo instead of the background ( here is a whole gallery of themes for FVD Speed Dial), change the number of columns and the size of the windows. You can also bookmark the password!…
You can even make an additional widget panel, but I didn’t see the need for it ( There are few widgets and they are all “boring”) and disabled this feature.
On the left there is a panel with quick access to the services of the “good corporation” - I also disabled it in the settings, which can be found in the drop-down panel on the right and at the top...
...it can be hidden...
A window like this will appear in your bookmarks...
Click on it and take a picture of the site (screenshot) using your camera...
You can carry a camera by the green cross.
You can adjust your bookmarks at any time...
In the same window you can create new groups of bookmarks.
FVD Speed Dials for Mozilla Firefox absolutely the same in settings and use - here is the link to this add-on .
Now the most necessary and important thing...
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 service, which has not earned a very good reputation free mail.
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 according to 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 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 matter looks somehow more clumsy and stupid, despite the fact that old version for Firefox it 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 button Additional options", then you can disable the spy 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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