Customize visual Yandex bookmarks for Firefox. Visual bookmarks from Yandex for Mozilla Firefox. Installing visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox

The additional panel that was installed in the most popular browsers called “Yandex bar” has ceased to exist. Its main goal was to make programs for viewing websites more functional and comfortable to use. Now its developers are proposing to switch to a more modern and advanced version, called . The new version of the panel contains many extensions, among which stand out “ Visual bookmarks" I will talk about this browser extension in this article. About visual bookmarks for Chrome browser can be read.

Installing the extension

All available elements can be downloaded and installed individually or all at once by going to the website https://element.yandex.ru/.

After a quick download and installation, Firefox needs to be restarted, which is what I did. When I opened my browser, I saw a set of cute tiles with a large search bar at the top.

Advice! You can see the bookmarks page at any time by pressing Ctrl + T.

Setting up the extension

To change the parameters of visual bookmarks, there is a “Settings” button in the lower right corner of the browser window. Clicking on it, I saw a single setting that allows you to change the background of the page. Yandex has prepared several nice background pictures for its users and provided the opportunity to download new ones from hard drive. If desired, the background image can be made permanent or changed after a certain time.

Extra options

Yandex bookmarks for Firefox also have additional settings available by clicking the “Other parameters” button. They allow:

select the type of bookmarks;
disable search bar;
Advice! You can use the search engine in the address bar of your browser.
enable or disable display of the panel;
consent to the automatic sending of statistics;
use contextual sentences or make open page home.

Arrangement of bookmarks on the page

On new page Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla look like small tiles. They are easy to move with the mouse:

Place the cursor over the desired bookmark.
Clamp left key mouse, and it will begin to move along with the cursor.
At the desired location, simply release the button.

The tile will remain where you placed it. In the upper right corner of each visual bookmark there are three buttons that allow you to change its settings. They are hidden from the user, and to see them the cursor must be moved to the right edge of the bookmark and held in place for a short time.

Pin, delete or edit

A button in the form of a lock allows you to unpin or pin Yandex bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox. This is very useful when there are a lot of popular resources and they are mixed automatically. Pinned bookmarks will always remain in their places.

By pressing the button in the form of a gear, a additional panel, where you can change the site address, add or edit a description. Popular and recently visited pages are also available for viewing.

To quickly delete a bookmark, there is a third button in the form of a cross. Clicking on it, I saw a pop-up window confirming my actions. The developers took care of users and provided protection against accidental deletion of bookmarks. If you see a pop-up window with the question “Delete bookmark?”, but you did not intend to delete anything, then click on the “No” button and everything will remain as before.

Add a new bookmark

In order for a new site to appear on the page with visual bookmarks, you need to click on the “Add bookmark” button, which is located in the lower right corner. A panel will appear with a form for entering the site address. You can also enter a description by clicking on the “Edit Description” button.

I liked the ability to use a keyboard shortcut to navigate to the desired site. You need to count tiles from left to right, and select and navigate by simultaneously pressing the Alt key and the number corresponding to the serial number of the bookmark.

"Yandex Elements" offer others useful additions to the browser, which are also worth your attention.

Mozilla Firefox is 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 removing 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 panels of visual bookmarks 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-Page

The 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.

Atavi

Another cross-platform option for organizing an express panel of visual bookmarks in the Mozilla Firefox browser is Atavi Bookmarks from the free Atavi.Com web service.

Visual bookmarks from Yandex Today's article provides an overview of Visual Bookmarks from Yandex.

But these bookmarks, unlike all other express panels presented in this review, are not installed from the store Mozilla extensions Firefox, and from the Yandex Elements website.

Fast Dial

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 Speed Dial express panel for visual bookmarks.

FVD Speed Dial

FVD 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.

To sum it up...

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.

Today, bookmarks are a convenient and popular means for quick access to constantly visited Internet resources, and their special visual version can confidently be called the most popular. Like most Internet browsers, . True, unlike some web browsers, in the standard set of Firefox tools, we, unfortunately, will definitely not find anything that resembles such handy tool. However, this is not a reason to make hasty conclusions and urgently abandon functionality and comfort.

Visual bookmarks for popular Mozilla browser Firefox allows you to quickly navigate between web pages on the Internet. Many of you home page Internet browser has some special site installed. They come to the program along with the installation of special add-ons. Among domestic users, these will be the visual bookmarks from Yandex, reviewed not so long ago, which can always be installed in conjunction with another convenient set of tools.

This amazing set is called Yandex Elements. This method is quite good for covering several necessary areas of work at once, but you can also use other popular add-ons (i.e., software add-ons that expand the functionality of the browser) of the Mozilla Firefox browser.

Another popular extension that provides the user with visual bookmarks for the Mozilla Firefox Internet browser is a special addon. In it we will easily find everything we need, and it itself can be obtained in the same way as the alternative mentioned above. In addition, you can simply use category browsing in the add-ons section.

Immediately after installing any of the extensions mentioned above, visual bookmarks will have to be configured. Basically, this is an intuitive process. You will need to select the quantity, design, and also set the content for all bookmarks. After this, you will have a stable set that will be very convenient to use, adjusting it as needed.

A modern Internet user views a fairly large number of sites and it is quite natural that he would like to see some more web resources. For this purpose, various browsers have a function called bookmarks. By clicking on it, you will immediately be taken to the desired resource. In Firefox, this is done like this: when you are on a site, you see its address in the address bar.

To bookmark it, you need to click on the “Star” and the web resource will be bookmarked. Quite simple, but the developers went further and made them visual, i.e. We will click not on website addresses, but on their pictures. Let's look at them from the Yandex search engine.

Installation

We go to the official website (if you have installed on your computer various browsers, then we use Firefox) Yandex elements. And click the yellow “Install” button.

After this, a blocking window will appear in the upper left corner of the browser. Click "Allow". (Pay attention to the actions of this browser - it will not allow you to install any program without your knowledge).

A new window appears.
Please note that in this window it is reported that the installation will be not only of the bookmarks themselves, but also of “Elements...” and “Advisor”; a browser such as (just checked) does not inform that we give permission to download third-party programs.

Click “Install”.

Click “Restart now”. And again the window.

Here we uncheck the services and home page(those who need it, leave it) and click “Continue”. The browser reloads and we see.

Installation is complete. By the way, the “Advisor” tab has appeared. Click and see what kind of advice is offered.

It became clear that he suggests prices when searching on the Yandex market.

After installing the add-on, these visual bookmarks will always be shown when creating a new tab.

How to use

Suppose you visited the web resource compfixer.info/tor and want to bookmark it.

Copy the page URL in the address bar. Then press the hot keys “Ctrl+T”. Or click “+”.

The page opens. To add, click “Add…” in the lower right corner.

A window opens. Paste the copied page URL into the appropriate field and press “Enter”.

Let's look at the result. The tab has appeared.

To delete any bookmark, move the mouse to its upper right corner and the “X” sign will appear there, click on it and it’s gone!

By the way, all bookmarks are dragged and dropped.

Settings

To configure, go to the lower right corner and click the “Settings” link.

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. The Yandex bar, which I once wrote about in some detail, has ceased to exist. It had quite a few useful options and it had every right to exist. But not everything is so sad, in fact, something simple happened.

The panel has become more compact, lighter and less intrusive, but the essence remains the same, especially since the bar can be easily updated with elements. A similar situation with renaming occurs with other Internet giants, for example, the free mail service, which has not earned a very good reputation.

Personally, I liked the bar most of all for such an option as visual bookmarks, which Yandex added to Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome And Internet Explorer for easy navigation through the resources you most visit. By the way, I recently found a worthy alternative - which is in many ways superior to the brainchild of Yandex.

On the way to your cherished goal, they will try to intercept you and persuade you to do so, 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 appearance pages from Yandex bookmarks for Google Chrome and I like them the most, because they practically duplicate the Opera Express panel, to which I am very accustomed.

When you move the mouse cursor to an empty rectangle, a “+” sign will appear on it, by clicking on which you will be able to create a new tab based on pages previously opened in the browser or simply by entering the desired URL and the name of the future bookmark in the appropriate fields:

Then you can freely drag it with the mouse to any convenient place, which easily allows you to sort the sites you need in the sequence you need. In addition, when you move the mouse cursor to any of the created tabs at the top of it, you will see a control panel with four buttons:

Using them, you can delete a bookmark, update the screenshot of the bookmarked site, change something in the settings (assign a different URL, change the name or set a different screenshot update period), and also hide it. I didn’t understand what the last option could be used for, because in the place of the hidden tab there still remains a hole, and if you move the cursor to it, it will appear.

At the bottom of the page with Yandex visual tabs in Google Chrome there is a “Settings” button, which will allow you to change the appearance of the panel to suit your preferences (change the possible number of rectangles, add a background and set the refresh period for screenshots).

Visual tabs for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer

For Mozilla Firefox and Internet explorer they look the same and you can download them all from the same link:

But, in my opinion, the new version of Firefox bookmarks from Yandex is significantly inferior in convenience to the tabs for Google Chrome described just above. This 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 Extra 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).

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site