Nowadays, almost every person has access to the Internet and uses it every day to look up the weather for the coming days, news, and 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 the sites you visit, which are presented in the form of thumbnails.
To install visual bookmarks Yandex 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 “Install” button.
A new Visual Bookmarks tab opens. We read the information, scroll to the end and click “Install”.
The following information window may appear, click “Allow”.
Now restart Firefox.
The next window displays a list of add-ons, in which there are three new ones that have just been installed. For example, I don’t need Yandex.Advisor, so I can safely click “Delete”. If you are in doubt and may want to use this add-on in the future, click “Disable” and restart your browser.
The installation of visual bookmarks is complete. Now let's look at some settings.
To open visual bookmarks, click on the plus sign at the TOP, 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 a 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 options".
Here you can select the type of bookmarks, make visual bookmarks the start page that will load when you open the browser. 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. The thumbnails can be placed in any order; to do this, simply click on the selected bookmark 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 those offered: popular, recently visited, or enter the page address yourself. We left-click on it and it appears in the matrix.
For convenience, at the bottom of the visual bookmarks page there are buttons for quickly jumping to closed tabs, downloads, bookmarks, and history.
When you hover 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 remains in place.
The second, in the form of a gear, is necessary to change the site to which this bookmark will lead.
Using the third, you can delete a bookmark.
To delete or disable visual bookmarks in the browser “Menu”, select “Add-ons”, the image was presented earlier. And opposite the 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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Instructions
Launch the Mozilla Firefox browser - you will already have at least one tab open. At your choice, this tab can be an empty white form, or a web page designated as your home page, or even several pages at once - then when you start the browser, the corresponding number of tabs will open. In addition, it is possible to set an express panel with visual bookmarks as the start page (new tab). So first analyze your situation and decide which one possible options the settings for you will be most preferable.
Don't leave a blank tab as your start page if you intend to visit very often. large number the same URLs. Indeed, in this case, to go to your favorite sites, you will have to type these URLs manually each time, or look for the necessary links in bookmarks and a magazine, or even use a web search. It is much more advisable to in this case will set as the start page (new tab) the express panel developed for Mozilla Firefox. More detailed information For existing modifications of express panels (user reviews, tips on installation and settings), search the Internet.
Do not waste your time and computer resources on installing, configuring and operating an express panel with numerous visual bookmarks if you regularly visit only a couple of sites on the Internet. In this case, it is better to designate them as home pages. When you launch the browser and/or when you click on the “Home” button, they will all open at once - each site in a separate tab, and rare transitions to other links can be done from a blank page using ordinary means.
Make the necessary changes to the Mozilla Firefox settings. Open the browser menu - it is called up by the orange button at the top left. Click on the "Settings" item. In the window that appears, start with the “Basic Settings” group - in it, specify the address(es) of the home page, and also select the most optimal option for displaying tabs when starting the browser. If you don't know how to do this, click on the "Help" button in the lower right corner of the settings window.
Go to the next group of settings - “Tabs”. To find your preferred options, review the help information. Check all the required boxes and click OK to save your settings.
Download the add-on you like. Typically, you will need to restart your browser after the installation process is complete.
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 necessary pages in one click, and in the literal sense of this word. There is no need to enter the site address into 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 quite 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 website 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 its download and installation. This is discussed below.
Downloading and installing visual bookmarks from Yandex
Downloading and installing the extension is done through the Mozilla addon store. Therefore, it is necessary immediately launch browser Firefox. Then open menu(the icon is located 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 for 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 start 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 don't want them to take up extra space on the monitor screen, then it’s not a 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.
In general, all bookmarks are aimed at creating comfort while working with browsers. Each program offers its own. Visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox need to be installed and configured. Let's talk about this now.
What are visual bookmarks?
When we launch any browser, a window with the start page opens. In most browsers it consists of cells. Each cell contains a site - the one most frequently visited by the user, the standard one if the browser has not yet been used, as well as the one that was specially placed there by the owner of the device.
Most users don't like the default panel in Firefox: it doesn't have themes and is limited in the number of cells. In this regard, they are trying to find other solutions for the interface.
Bookmarking extensions
What extensions are suitable for creating a visual bookmarks bar in Firefox? There are a lot of them. Some of the most famous are Yandex.Bar and Speed Dial. They can be downloaded from the extension store. To get there you need:
1.Click on the icon with three lines and select the “Add-ons” block in the context menu.
2.Open the top block “Get add-ons”. In the search bar, enter the query “visual bookmarks”.
3.A page will open with a list of additions on the topic. Read the information, choose what you like and click on the “Install” button.
4.The browser will require a restart. When you open the browser, you will already see that the icon of the add-on you just installed has appeared in the top panel of Mozilla Firefox. You can remove add-ons in the second menu “Extensions”.
Set the Speed Dial
Which add-on is best to install? Speed Dial - good choice, since you can create groups of panels in it.
1.Go to the following page: https://www.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/desktop/customize/. Scroll the tab down to the “Other configuration methods” block.
2.Click on the “Extras” puzzle icon, and then on “Here are some of our favorites.”
3.Select Speed Dial.
Now you need to set up visual bookmarks. How to include a page in the panel?
1.Click on the cell.
2. Enter the site that needs to be pinned in the “Address” field. Click on OK.
You can remove content from cells here by clicking on the cross in its upper right corner.
When you open the browser, the start page with the search engine will still launch first. To see the panel, you need to switch to a new tab.
Interface from Yandex
How to install visual bookmarks from Yandex on a browser from another developer? Is this possible? Of course, you can also install Yandex Bar and other elements if desired. Again, you need to go to the Mozilla extensions directory.
- Follow the link: https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/yandex-visual-bookmarks/?src=search.
- Click on “Add to Firefox”. We are waiting for the download to complete.
- Click on “Install”. Click on OK. Click on the cross and confirm that we want to close all tabs.
When you open your browser, you will again see that the visual bookmarks for Firefox are different.
Now let's see how to set up bookmarks from Yandex. To save a site to the panel, click “Add Bookmark”. You can enter the site manually or paste a copied address, and find it in the "Popular" or "Recently Visited" sections.
To remove a site from the panel, click on the cross in the upper right corner of the cell.
What can you do in the Settings section? For example, you can set the number of cells you need on the panel. The standard number is 10. You can increase it up to 25. Also determine the type of cells:
- Logos and headings.
- Logos and screenshots.
- Screenshots.
Upload your own picture for the background or choose from a ready-made catalog. Additional functions include the Yandex search bar, bookmarks bar, display of user location and contextual advertising. You can remove any of these options. You can always change them in the settings.
Is it possible to return the old interface?
Since the updated program interface was not to the taste of many Internet users, the question arose of how to return old visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox. What you need to do:
1.Delete the panel that is currently installed in Mozilla Firefox in the “Extensions” menu.
2.Download the YandexVizualBookmarks.xpi file.
3.Drag it with the mouse to open window browser.
4.In a new small window, click on “Install”.
5.Restart your browser.
6.Next, go to the “Extensions” menu. Under Manage Add-ons, find Visual Bookmarks. Click on the “Details” line and check “Disabled” next to the “Automatic update” item. So, the extension will not be updated - you will have the old version.
7.Go to the “Settings” section. In the “Home Page” line, write the following: yafd:tabs. Click OK. Restart your browser.
If your bookmarks have disappeared from view
What to do if visual bookmarks are not displayed in Mozilla Frefox? There may be three reasons:
- You have cleared your message history. Bookmarks display the sites you visit most. All that remains is to re-create the story.
- You could turn them off.
- Some add-on changes the home screen. Look at the “Extensions” menu and try disabling extensions one by one. This way, you can identify the “culprit”.
To install visual bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox, you need to download a special extension from the store. Which one is another question. The most popular are from Yandex and Speed Dial. They can be used absolutely free. You can try any option you find in the extension store.
Many browsers provide users with the ability to create visual bookmarks. Such bookmarks provide more comfortable browsing experience. Today the Land of Soviets will tell how to make visual bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox.
Unlike Opera, the Mozilla Firefox browser does not have a built-in visual bookmarking service. What if you need visual bookmarks in your browser, but you are not ready to exchange Firefox for another browser just for this feature? Various add-ons will come to the rescue, which will help you make visual bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox.
So, how to make visual bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox? First you need to install a special add-on that will allow you to create and customize visual bookmarks. There are several such additions. Perhaps the most famous is Yandex.Bar, which includes visual bookmarks among its functions. If you don’t want to install Yandex.Bar, we can recommend add-ons Speed Dial, Fast Dial, Sugestron Speed Dial.
We will tell you how to make visual bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox using the Speed Dial add-on. Installing and configuring other similar add-ons follow the same principle, so they should not cause you the slightest difficulty. First we need to go to the browser add-on manager. To do this, select Add-ons from the Tools menu. In the window that opens, go to the Search for add-ons tab:
Visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox
In the search bar (you can recognize it by the italic inscription “Search all add-ons” and the magnifying glass icon), enter the name of the add-on we need - in this case, Speed Dial - and click on the magnifying glass icon or the Enter key on the keyboard. Suggested additions will appear in the window; the addition we need should be in first place. Select it by clicking on the name of the add-on with the left mouse button, and click on the Add to Firefox button...
Install visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox
A warning window will appear. We are not afraid of the warning and click the Install Now button. After installation we will be prompted to restart the browser. After restarting the browser, set up the add-on. To do this, go to Tools - Add-ons again, but instead of the Search for add-ons tab, select the Extensions tab. In it, click on the newly installed Speed Dial add-on and click on the Settings button.
First, pay attention to the Actions drop-down menu at the bottom of the settings window. It allows you to reset the add-on settings, restoring the default settings, perform the initial setup of the add-on, export settings and bookmarks to a separate file in speeddial (a specific add-on format) or HTML format, import settings from a file, or restore from a backup.
Now we need a point Initial configuration. The initial Speed Dial setup allows you to configure the add-on to load in new empty windows and tabs, use groups of visual bookmarks, add an add-on button to the browser toolbar, and set visual Mozilla bookmarks Firefox as your home page. All we need is to check the boxes next to the items we need and click on the OK button.
Now let's take a closer look Speed Dial settings window. In the Basic tab, you can configure groups of visual bookmarks: the names of the groups and the number of bookmarks in the group. One group can be active in the browser at a time, but the groups are tabbed so you can easily switch between them. In addition, in the main settings tab, you can configure automatic loading of the add-on in new empty windows and/or tabs, as well as access to the Speed Dial through the context menu and the “Bookmarks” menu.
In the Default tab, you can configure the refresh rate of site previews in visual bookmarks, the use of JavaScript, the size of bookmarks, and the number of bookmarks in rows and columns. In the Thumbnails tab, you can configure the settings for thumbnails, in the Controls tab, you can configure hotkeys and mouse actions, and in the Advanced tab, you can configure other, less important parameters. To save your changes, you need to click OK..
To create a new visual bookmark, right-click on the empty bookmark with a number and select Edit. In the window that opens, enter the address (URL) of the site we need, the title (if you do not enter a title and check the Dynamic checkbox, the title will be generated dynamically when the bookmark is updated). In the Update drop-down list, select the update time: never or periodically. If you selected Periodically, another drop-down list will appear. From it you will need to select a time unit (hours, days, minutes, seconds), and enter the number manually. Should I check the Use JavaScript checkbox? Not necessary, but recommended - previews of some sites will not load without JavaScript.
Visual bookmarks are missing in Mozilla Firefox
This is how easy it is to make visual bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox. Ten minutes to install and configure - and your browser has become more convenient and functional!
