An 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 sites more functional and comfortable to use. Now its developers propose to move to a more modern and advanced version, which is called. The new version of the panel contains many extensions, among which "Visual Bookmarks" stands out. I will talk about this browser extension in this article. You can read about visual bookmarks for the Chrome browser.

Installing an 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 I did. Opening my browser, I saw a set of cute tiles with a large search bar at the top.

Advice! At any time, the bookmarked page can be viewed by pressing the key combination Ctrl + T.

Extension configuration

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

Extra options

Also Yandex bookmarks for Firefox have additional settings available by clicking the "More options" button. They allow you to:

• choose the type of bookmarks;
• disable the search bar;
  

  Advice! You can use the search engine in the address bar of your browser.

• enable or disable the display of the panel;
• consent to the automatic sending of statistics;
• use contextual suggestions or make an open home page.

Arrangement of bookmarks on the page

On the new page, Yandex for Mozilla visual bookmarks look like small tiles. They move easily with the mouse enough:

1. Place the cursor on the desired bookmark.
2. Hold down the left mouse button and it will move along with the cursor.
3. In the right place, just release the button.

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

Pin, delete or edit

The 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 place.

By clicking on the button in the form of a gear, an additional panel appeared in front of me, 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 the users and provided protection against accidental deletion of bookmarks. If you see a pop-up window with the question "Delete bookmark?", And you were not going to delete anything, then click on the "No" button and everything will remain as before.

Add 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 with a form for entering the site address will appear. 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 ordinal number of the bookmark.

Yandex Elements offers other useful browser add-ons that are also worth your attention.

In the updated version of Mozila, to the great regret of many users, the usual visual Yandex bookmarks panel has disappeared, and instead of it, a clean white window flaunts! People are sounding the alarm! Today we will fix this problem!

The newest version of visual Yandex bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox has been released under the serial number 2.5 (in particular, it is great for fresh versions of Firefox 55 ...).

What useful functionality this number can do! - the version automatically inserts the most visited network resources into our panel. ... and also allows, as before, to manually add new sites that are nice to us: I like it, and I'm used to it ... and also integrates remarkably now ... below is the proof!

Well ... let's play a concert on adding bookmarks to the updated version of Firefox Yandex, and get acquainted with some more nuances:

how to return the visual Yandex bookmarks panel to Mozilla Firefox

First I will add something:

The positive effect is that immediately after you download (great link below) and install the Yandex bookmarks bar, a familiar picture will appear in Firefox and IE (exactly the same as the one that had these bookmarks installed before the Firefox update ) with all tabs pinned. Ie you don't have to configure anything else. Very comfortably! the developers approached the solution of the problem ...

For those users who did not have Yandex bookmarks installed in their browser, there is something to say about some simple settings:

Everything is simple, as soon as you install Visual bookmarks (now, the Yandex toolbar), you will immediately see a filled tab window with the sites you visit most frequently.

Any tab can be pinned so that it does not disappear when an even more visited resource appears, etc.

... move the cursor over the desired tab and click the lock (when it is closed, the tab is pinned).

Also read in the articles on the site "tag" on how to save visual or html bookmarks ... and much more useful information.

Getting started with the installation:

where to download visual Yandex bookmarks for the updated Mozilla Firefox

So: to download Yandex elements, namely visual bookmarks, you need to follow this link //element.yandex.ru/vb/?redir=vb ... or here //yandex.ru/soft/element/ a direct download link.

On the page, which, by the way, may visually differ from the screen below - click "Install" ...

We can be confused by the fact that after clicking "install" the download will not follow ...

It is imperative that you allow the Firefox browser to install (so unloved by Yandex bookmarks) - the screen below.

The following window will immediately pop up: click "Add" extension ...

Minutes of Internet collapse ... lightning-fast download (depending on the speed of our Internet: by the way, learning to ping the Internet can be very, very useful!)

That's all!!

We reboot the Firefox browser system, and use our favorite browser as we are used to ...

... and Yandex bookmarks will now be with you!

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Yandex Visual Bookmarks is a universal browser extension designed to quickly navigate between your favorite sites. Most often it is used to expand the pool of bookmarks on the start screen of the browser, as well as to view news from the Zen online service.

After installing the Yandex Visual Bookmarks extension, the design of the start page of your browser will completely change, and the following elements will also appear: Yandex search bar, information panel (Yandex Weather widget and dollar rate), add bookmarks function, authorization button in the Yandex Mail service, news block Zen, additional buttons and the "Settings" menu. The last option is used to create a backup copy of bookmarks and to change the appearance of the screen and bookmarks. As for the additional buttons, they provide quick access to the following screens: Downloads, Closed Tabs, History, and Bookmarks.

As you know, you initially have 8 tabs available for popular sites on the main page of the browser, and in - 12. In turn, the Yandex Visual Bookmarks extension increases this number to 25. Moreover, when adding new bookmarks, you can independently specify the addresses of the sites that you wanted to see on your home screen, or select them from the lists "Popular" and "Recently visited".

Yandex Visual Bookmarks is an excellent example of a navigation extension that adds additional tabs for the most visited sites and significantly expands the functionality of your browser's start page. These bookmarks were originally a unique feature.

Nowadays, almost everyone 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 the 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 visual Yandex bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox first, you need to download the extension file, which is called so - visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox... We write the corresponding request in the Yandex search engine. Then click on the "Install" button.

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, just installed. For example, I don’t need Yandex.Advisor, so I can safely press “Delete”. If you are in doubt and, perhaps, want to use this add-on in the future, click "Disable" and restart your browser.

Installation of visual bookmarks is complete. Now let's take a look at some of the settings.

To open visual bookmarks, click on the UP plus sign, i.e. open a new tab.

The page will look like the picture below: visual bookmarks are presented in the form of a matrix, they save the link to the site and are made in the form of a site logo with a corresponding title.

Next, in the lower right corner, click "Settings". Here you can select the number of bookmarks that will appear when you open a new tab, and the background. Then click on the button "Other parameters".

Here you can choose the type of bookmarks, make visual bookmarks the start page that will be loaded when you open the browser. If you want the search bar and the bookmark bar to be displayed at the top of the window, put a checkmark in front of these items.

In the standard settings, the matrix of visual bookmarks is formed from the most popular sites. Thumbnails can be put in any order, for this, just 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 ourselves. 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 transition to closed tabs, downloads, bookmarks, history.

When you hover over a thumbnail, three icons appear in the upper right corner. The first one fixes the bookmark, so that when new bookmarks are added, the docked remains in place.

The second, in the form of a gear, is needed to change the site to which this bookmark will lead.

With 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 additions "Visual bookmarks" press the button "Delete" or "Disable". 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.

And also watch the video

Mozilla Firefox is a flexible browser builder that can be supplemented with various functionality using plug-ins. Among such functionality is an express panel of visual bookmarks for quick and convenient access to selected user sites.

Mozilla Firefox has a powerful enough functionality preinstalled for working with ordinary bookmarks, including the ability to quickly add favorite sites to the browser collection, sort bookmarks by subject folders, as well as export, import and create backups. 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 in them from the browser history.

Let's look at more effective and practical express panels of visual bookmarks for the Fire Fox in the extension store. Let's take a look at the best ones.

5 best quick visual bookmark panels for Mozilla Firefox browser

How to complete 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 surely interest those who are constantly changing browsers or computer devices.

The Top-Page.Ru web service offers a completely free service for storing custom bookmarks in the online organization of the express panel of website thumbnails.

Once you set up the express panel and organize your favorite sites on it, you can instantly access visual bookmarks from the window of any browser, on any device - be it a computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. To do this, you just need to first register with the Top-Page.Ru web service, and then log in.

Express panel of visual bookmarks Top-Page is not the best design masterpiece, far from the most advanced functional product, however, there is a possibility to change the background image and adjust the number of thumbnails of selected sites in width.

To add a site to the visual Top-Page bookmarks, click on an empty cell with a plus sign and enter the web address. If you are too lazy to enter the name, you do not need to do it. 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 the other express panels presented in this review, are not installed from the Mozilla Firefox extension store, but from the Yandex Elements website.

Fast Dial

Fast Dial is a customizable extension for Mozilla Firefox.

In its settings, the number of displayed cells of visual bookmarks on the page can be adjusted by setting any numerical value in width and length. The size of the tab cells themselves is also adjustable.

In the Fast Dial settings

you can set your own background image for the express bar of visual bookmarks. You can also choose the design of the cells, the font of the inscriptions and other subtleties of design.

To add a new visual bookmark, click an empty cell and enter the web address of the selected site. Each visual tab can choose its own logo, as well as assign hotkeys for shortcuts.

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 express panel of visual bookmarks FVD Speed ​​Dial.

FVD Speed ​​Dial

FVD Speed ​​Dial is, perhaps, the most beautiful, most effective, most functional, most customizable express visual bookmark panel for Mozilla Firefox.

But, along with this, and the most ponderous.

The effects and functionality of the extension can 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 fine-tuned to suit your taste - choose a beautiful background image, customize the font of the labels, set the transparency of the buttons, specify the size of the cells, etc.

FVD Speed ​​Dial allows you to organize visual bookmarks by thematic groups, thereby preventing clutter of the express panel with bookmarks. In this case, a group of popular bookmarks from regularly visited sites is generated 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 press an empty cell with a plus sign on the express panel, enter the website address, we can assign a group, a title and a picture from among the proposed ones for the bookmark.

Summing up ...

Despite the fact that FVD Speed ​​Dial is far from being a companion 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 old PC assemblies can, for example, abandon the cumbersome wallpaper, leaving the preset background of the express panel white so as not to burden the browser.