Yandex visual tabs. How to add bookmarks to visual bookmarks? Instructions, settings and recommendations

An additional panel that was installed in the most popular browsers called "Yandex bar" has ceased to exist. Its main goal was to make web browsing software more functional and comfortable to use. Now its developers are offering to switch to a more modern and advanced version called. A new version panel contains many extensions, among which "Visual bookmarks" stand 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 site https://element.yandex.ru/.

After a quick download and installation, Firefox needs to be restarted, which I did. When I opened my browser, I saw a set of pretty tiles with a big search bar on top.

Advice! The bookmarked page can be viewed at any time by pressing Ctrl + T.

Setting up an extension

To change the settings for 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 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:

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

  Advice! take advantage search engine can be in the address bar of the browser.

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

Position of bookmarks on the page

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

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

The tile will stay 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 in order to see them, the cursor should be moved to the right edge of the bookmark and held in place for a short time.

Pin, delete or edit

The button in the form of a lock allows you to unpin or unpin 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 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 the 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 will appear with a form for entering the site address. You can also enter a description by clicking the "Edit Description" button.

I liked the ability to use a keyboard shortcut to navigate to the desired site. You need to count the 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 offers other useful browser add-ons that are also worth your attention.

Visual Bookmarks is an extension with which you can go to the sites you frequently visit with one click. Bookmarks are saved as thumbnails and are available when you open a new browser tab. In addition, Visual bookmarks allow you to:

Add visual bookmark

By default, the new tab displays the sites you visit most often. This list is constantly changing.

You can add the sites you need manually, in which case they will always be on the screen. To add a visual bookmark:

Open a new tab.

To the right, under the visual tabs, click the button Add bookmark.

Enter the website address. You can also select a site from the Popular or Recently Visited.

If you want to change the site name on the widget, click the button Edit Description.

Edit list of visual bookmarks

To reposition or edit a bookmark, hover over the bookmark. Icons will be displayed in the upper right corner of the bookmark, with the help of which you can:

Customize Visual Bookmarks

Also on the new tab, you can additionally configure the extension: change the number of bookmarks and their appearance on the page, as well as select the background and make a backup copy of the bookmarks.

To open the settings menu:

Open a new tab.

To the right, under the visual tabs, click the Settings button.

You can change the following settings:

Installing Yandex visual bookmarks is worth it just because they make it much easier to navigate the resources you visit. Opera has had an Express panel for a long time, but other popular Internet browsers do not have this installed. Therefore, downloading this application is fully justified. The lotion can be installed on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.

What are visual bookmarks?

Liked the site? Make a bookmark out of it and you can return to it after a week, a month, a year. Now every browser has this feature, because it's really convenient. However, bookmarks tend to accumulate and often their number reaches hundreds. That's why browser manufacturers have created visual bookmarks, which, unlike workspace thieves, are small images of sites you like.

We set visual bookmarks for Yandex

Previously, this application was bundled with a bulky Bar. However, now you can download and install it without other unnecessary gadgets. So, to get started, download setup file"Yandex visual bookmarks", then run. You will be prompted to install a new Yandex browser, but you can not do this. Then, which is nice, you will have the opportunity to disable all additional and often unnecessary options (search by default, make the Yandex page home, send anonymous statistics). After completing all the necessary steps, the browser will restart and open an empty page with empty windows, where Yandex visual bookmarks will soon appear.

Working with the application

As soon as you move the mouse cursor over an empty rectangle, a “+” sign will appear on it. You can create by clicking on it. You can select visual Yandex bookmarks from recently opened pages or simply by entering the desired link and the name of the future bookmark in the required fields. When you hover over the created tabs, you will see a control panel with four main buttons (delete a bookmark, change settings, or update a site screenshot). Yandex visual bookmarks can be freely dragged to any place you like, which allows you to sort sites in the desired sequence.

Bookmark settings

At the bottom home page your browser has a "Settings" button. With it, you can change the panels with bookmarks. For example, you can change the number of rectangles, adjust the refresh rate of screenshots, and add a background.

Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox

This version of the application allows you not only to add your favorite sites manually to your bookmarks, but now it can itself insert screenshots of the most visited Internet resources into the panel. If this state of affairs does not suit you and you want the most necessary bookmarks to remain in place, then move the mouse cursor over the selected one and use the corresponding icon to fix the bookmark in place. The button in the form of a gear is needed to change the site address. Now you know all the intricacies of visual bookmarks, from their installation to customization appearance. We wish you good luck in your work!

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 in order 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 install 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 in doubt and you 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.

In standard 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 transition 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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