Visual bookmarks   - This is, of course, the most convenient type of add-ons for working with selected and frequently visited pages. Their display allows you not to waste time searching for the right page, so installing this add-on will be useful to every Internet user. Below we will consider visual bookmarks from Yandex: installation, configuration and basic functions available to users.

Visual bookmarks are part of Yandex elements. You can download visual bookmarks both from the official Yandex website (link at the end of the article) and in the extension store for your browser.

After installing visual bookmarks, in some browsers they can be turned off. To activate, go from the browser to the extension management menu (for example, you need to select the browser menu, open "Advanced Tools" and select "Extensions".

In the list of installed extensions, find "Visual bookmarks" and check the box "Enable".

Now when you create a new tab in the browser, you will see visual bookmarks from Yandex. You have already created several visual bookmarks in the form of tiles based on your Internet visits, but most of them are.

In order to go to the bookmarking site, simply click on the selected tile with the left mouse button.

To remove unwanted bookmarks, move the mouse cursor to the upper right corner of the tile to bring up a small three-button menu. The lock icon fixes the tile in visual bookmarks, the second icon allows you to change the tile site, the third icon deletes the tile.

Now you can add the bookmarks that you consider necessary to put in visual bookmarks. To do this, select the “Add Bookmark” button at the bottom of the page and select the icon with the site in the menu that appears (selected based on popular or recently visited sites) or enter your web resource in the address bar.

Visual bookmarks can be personalized using background images. In order to change the wallpaper of visual bookmarks, open the “Settings” menu and select your favorite wallpaper from the presented high-quality images. If necessary, you can upload your own images.

If you select the “Other parameters” submenu in the same Settings menu, you can configure the display of tiles (in the form of logos or screenshots), as well as remove the search bar and display the bookmarks bar.

Visual bookmarks are a very useful and beautiful addition for browsers. This extension does not give a serious load on the web browser, thereby not reducing its speed, and also has an amazing minimalistic interface that lends itself to personalization.

Yandex is worth setting visual bookmarks just because they greatly facilitate the navigation of resources visited. The Opera has long had an Express panel, but this has not been installed on other popular Internet browsers. Therefore, downloading this application is justified. The lotion can be installed on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.

What are visual bookmarks?

Do you like the site? Bookmark it and you can return to it after a week, month, year. Now every browser has such a function, because it is really convenient. However, bookmarks tend to accumulate and often their number reaches hundreds. Therefore, browser manufacturers have created visual bookmarks, which, in contrast to the "thieves" of the workspace, are small images of sites that you like.

We set visual bookmarks for Yandex

Previously, this application came bundled with a bulky Bar. However, now it can be downloaded and installed without other unnecessary lotions. So, first, download the Yandex Visual Bookmarks installation file, and then run it. 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 Yandex home page, send anonymous statistics). Having completed all the necessary steps, the browser will restart and open a blank page with empty windows, where Yandex visual bookmarks will soon appear.

Work with the application

As soon as you move the mouse cursor to an empty rectangle, a “+” sign will appear on it. You can create by clicking on it. You can select Yandex visual 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 bookmark, change settings or update 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 very bottom of the main page of your browser there is a “Settings” button. With it, you can change the tabbed panels. 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 not only allows you to add your favorite sites manually to bookmarks, but now it itself can insert screenshots of the most visited Internet resources onto the panel. If you are not satisfied with this state of affairs 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. A button in the form of a gear is necessary to change the site address. Now you know all the intricacies of visual bookmarks, from their installation to customizing the appearance. Good luck in your work!

The Google Chrome browser is excellent in many ways: speed, usability, security, extensibility, and many others. But developers didn’t think about visual bookmarks or didn’t really want to.

By default, chrome has regular bookmarks that can also be placed in a row under the address bar, and some kind of visual bookmarks that appear on a new tab. These bookmarks display the last visited pages and you can’t influence this in any way. Chrome is good because any of its shortcomings are eliminated with the help of additional extensions. The first time I saw visual bookmarks in the Opera browser. When they were born, it was something new and quickly became fashionable.

How to install extension in Google Chrome

To set visual bookmarks in Chrome, you just need to install the extension you like or use the cloud service. Installing different extensions does not differ from each other. The general algorithm of actions is as follows:

These are the most normal, in my opinion, bookmarks. To install them, follow the link and click the "Install" button.

If the link does not work, then you need to install Yandex Elements. To check the operation of visual bookmarks, open a new tab in the browser:

By default, there will only be bookmarks with Yandex links and some of the latter. To add a new site, click the "Add Bookmark" button. You can choose one of the recently visited sites or enter your link and name. Managing bookmarks is very simple: you can swap them by dragging and dropping with the mouse, change links and titles, hide and delete. When you hover over the bookmark icon, menu icons appear with which you can do all of these actions.

Click on the “Settings” button in the lower right corner and see what is there.

• We can choose the number of visible bookmark icons, the maximum number of 25 bookmarks should be enough for any purpose.
• You can choose a ready page background or upload your own picture, and also note that the background changes every day 🙂
• Using the “Bookmark Bar” checkbox, you can show or hide the display of regular bookmarks at the top of the window. In my case, they are already displayed using the standard features of Google Chrome, so I turned them off, and they look ridiculous and without icons
• Search string: for quick search in Yandex
• Contextual offers: Yandex advertising, I think it's worth turning off 🙂
• Show dashboard: weather, traffic, dollar
• Show in a new Zen tab - a personalized recommendations tape: you will immediately see the latest articles on your interests in Zen

Advantages and disadvantages of cloud bookmarks

There are many online services, opening the main page of which you see visual bookmarks. Simply put, everything is stored on a remote server - in the "cloud". The advantage is obvious: no matter where you are, whatever browser you use, on your computer or tablet, on Windows or MacOS - you can always go to your cloud and use the saved links.

For example, at work you have the corporate browser Internet Explorer or any other installed. Over the course of a hard working day, several interesting links accumulated that you need to open at home in Google Chrome. In this situation, it will not save. Now you can save bookmarks in the cloud, which is accessible from everywhere where there is Internet access.

Of the shortcomings, only the need for registration and the possible loss of all links if the service is lost. But if the bookmark data is stored on the computer, then the risk of their loss is even higher. There is also the inconvenience of adding new bookmarks, as I had to manually copy the links and add them to the piggy bank. But there are services that offer an additional extension for the browser, such as the excellent and free Atavi bookmark manager.

In principle, the same Yandex bookmarks are the interweaving of the cloud and the extensions for Chrome, but they can work completely autonomously, and purely cloud ones always require the Internet. Perhaps Yandex only loses by the fact that on different computers it’s necessary to log in under its name in Yandex, which is unsafe, and it doesn’t open in all countries anymore, and the functionality of visual bookmarks is a matter of taste.

Install Atavi Extension

To get started, go to the site by clicking the button, go through a small setup wizard and register by entering your username and password. Nothing more is required, you do not even need to confirm the registration from the letter.

Agree to grant the extension rights with the Add button. The start page will be changed to atavi.com, which will be notified. Video:

Basic bookmarking tricks

Everything is as simple as two or two. The homepage displays the initial page of visual bookmarks. You can also create your own groups and switch between them using the tabs at the bottom of the window. In my example, there are three tabs: “Initial”, “Recent” and the “Currency” I created

To add a new bookmark, click on an empty space with a big plus sign, enter the address, name and select a group:

Or just right-click on the page of any site that we want to save, and select "Send Bookmarks to Atavi" in the context menu

A new item appears on the start page. To delete a bookmark or change data, you need to click the cross or gear that will appear at the bottom right if you hover over an item

You can also move links between groups by simply dragging them with the mouse on the necessary tab of the group. You can add a new bookmark using the Atavi icon in the address bar of the browser, in which case you can immediately change the name and group

To create or change a group, use the gear button at the bottom right of the Atavi window. By default, when you click on a group tab, it goes to it, but in edit mode you can change the name of the group. To complete the editing you need to click on the gear again and select "Finish".

Share bookmarks with friends

Export, backup, import

In any service that respects its users, of course, there is a function to export all links, just in case. Here this function is in the general settings:

Everything is saved in a convenient HTML format, i.e. in the form of a simple page that opens in the browser, and all links are clickable:

In the settings, you can also change the appearance or switch to a shortened mobile version. And if you uncheck “Enable groups”, then all bookmarks from all groups will fit on one page.

The developers went even further, and offer to make their usual bookmarks visual - i.e. Import from the browser into your Atavi account. To use this function, you need to export regular Chrome bookmarks to HTML and import them using the "Import" function of the same name in Atavi settings. Or install the extension, it will do everything by itself.

I think it’s already clear that if the browser extension is not installed, then just go to atavi.com and log in, you will see all your bookmarks. This can be done on phones and tablets, but there are applications for them.

I completely switched to Atavi and I advise you. I liked the intuitive interface, fast speed, the ability to add bookmarks from the address bar. Of course, the main emphasis is on integration with Google Chrome, but it can also be used, be it Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer.

Visual Bookmarking Veteran - Speed \u200b\u200bDial 2

This tool allows you to fully customize the appearance and style of bookmarks, import the most visited sites, view statistics, export your settings and something else.

Now open a new tab to see how the extension works. At the first launch, you will be offered to go through an orientation tour, or skip this step. I advise you to quickly look through it so that later there will be no questions. Next, the wizard will start to bookmark the most visited sites.

Bookmarks that were added for the first time are displayed without a thumbnail image, and I did not like it. To add a picture, you need to go to the bookmark once or click “Create sketch”. Speed \u200b\u200bDial settings are invoked from the menu by right-clicking on an empty space. There are a lot of settings, we will analyze the main ones here, and look at the rest on the video.

In the main settings, we can:

• Select the number of columns with bookmarks (default 5)
• The distance between bookmark thumbnails, in pixels
• Bookmarking method: manually using drag and drop or automatically by the number of visits
• Center vertically so the bookmark bar is in the middle of the screen
• Clarify how often to update the preview

The Speed \u200b\u200bDial 2 extension has a sidebar that appears when you move the mouse to the right edge of the window. There are all the usual and last closed bookmarks. You can also select or download a background image. Another interesting feature is the synchronization with the Delicious social bookmarking service.

How to disable and remove old extensions

After searching and experimenting, you may accumulate several unnecessary extensions that will be. To disable an unnecessary extension, go to "Menu -\u003e Advanced Tools -\u003e Extensions", find the add-on and uncheck "Enabled"

And to delete it completely (the settings are not saved!), You need to click on the basket and agree with the deletion.

It's about today visual bookmarks for browsers. I will tell you what it is, why, how to install them in your browser and why such bookmarks are better than regular, text.

Described below, step by step and in pictures, visual bookmarks work in the most popular, to date, Internet browsers - Google Chrome and Mozilla. Naturally, all other browsers using the same engines (Blink - the 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’ll teach you how to save (and restore) my visual bookmarks, for example, in case of a sudden death of the operating system, as well as synchronize them between different browsers. Yes, you understood correctly - you can transfer (copy) these bookmarks from Mozilla to Google Chrome. They made a bookmark in one browser and it appeared in the second - very convenient and practical, I will tell you.

What are visual bookmarks?

Any browser has a bookmark function. Did you like any site - made a bookmark on it and you can return to it at least a week, at least a year later. Conveniently. But over time, these bookmarks accumulate dozens and even hundreds - how not to get lost in them, how to remember what kind of site you saved a month ago?

The favicons (site icons) do not greatly save the situation, as you can see, but these are only 11 bookmarks that I specially made just that (since I do not use this way to save the sites I like at all).

Browser makers quickly came up with bookmark bars (usually located under the address bar). Not the best way out, as it seems to me. You already know how do I feel about different toolbars and panelsthat steal workspace in browsers. And ordinary text bookmarks did not become more informative from this.

And here they go on stage visual bookmarks! These are not just bookmarks, but small images of the sites that you liked, their pictures ...

You can also imagine them as windows on the Internet.

So they look like in Mozilla Firefox 23.

Why visual bookmarks are better than regular textbooks

With visual bookmarks, there is no need to search in hundreds of lines for the small text of the page name - you see this page right away! Even the brain does not have time to turn on, as you have already found the desired bookmark and clicking on the picture, went to the site.

Visual bookmarks can be easily sorted into groups (tabs) - for example, "Cinema", "Cooking", "Auto", "Mom's", "Dad's" ...

You can also update, modify, delete, add, move from group to group or higher and lower in the browser window ... in short, sort and mock them as you like.

The point, I think, you catch is that such bookmarks are more informative, more convenient, more practical, more cute ... ordinary and boring bookmarks built into the browser. They are simpler, clearer!

What are visual bookmarks?

Visual bookmarks first appeared in the Opera browser (2007) and they were called Speed \u200b\u200bDial. This concept of saving popular pages was so popular with users that very soon all other browsers (of course, except Internet Explorer) acquired a lot of add-ons and extensions that implement a similar function.

I have already described in detail such additions in the articles “ 6 required additions to Mozilla Firefox "And" Top Extensions for Google Chrome » .

In addition to additions and extensions to browsers, whole services of visual bookmarks appeared on the network. For example, top-page and onlinezakladki. But, firstly, the distribution method of the first service is very similar to forced imposition (yeah, remember Yandex.Bar?).

Here's what they write about him on the network - "What the hell is this - top-page ...", "How to remove the ominous top-page from the home page ...", "Answers: Mail.Ru: help how to remove top-page ...", "How to remove top-page on Windows ...". These are excerpts from the first page of search engine results for “top-page”!

The "prevalence" of this service is easily explainable - money is paid for its advertising and positive reviews about it. I was also contacted and offered to describe for a fee. Refused - reputation is more important than any money!

And secondly, all these services are very friendly with Yandex. In all there is a tightly mounted search line on the floor of the screen from this search engine! By the way, taking this opportunity to remind here is my attitude to this company .

So I'm not greedy - here on this link   You will be taken to the visual bookmarks page from Yandex for Google Chrome. But! The number of settings (or rather their absence) is simply amazing. You will not be able to remove the search line on the floor of the screen, and a more or less decent look of bookmarks is obtained only with the number of windows 7 by 3 \u003d 21. Only 21 bookmarks! No groups or tabs! You can of course set the maximum available number of bookmarks (48), but you will not be able to consider at least something in them.

And here yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla . Here things are a little better - you can even remove the search line (monstrous and frightening generosity from Yandex)! A slightly larger variety of backgrounds ... but only 25 bookmark windows! Of course without groups and tabs!

So as not to deprive you of a choice i give a link to a review article   about similar bookmarking services. Read, choose, swear, spit, delete and read on.

From the foregoing, I think that you understand - this is not our choice! But what is ours?

FVD Speed \u200b\u200bDial - 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 direct official link   - it will be installed immediately in your Google Chrome.

As you can see from the video, there are a lot of settings in this extension, you can very easily customize it for yourself ...

In the “View” setting, you can give the visual bookmarks a 3D effect.

You can adjust 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 the FVD Speed \u200b\u200bDial), change the number of columns and the size of the windows. And you can bookmark the password! ...

You can even make an additional widget panel, only I did not 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 "corporation of good" - I also disabled it in the settings that can be found in the drop-down panel, which is on the right and at the top ...

... it can be hidden ...

This window will appear in your bookmarks ...

Click on it and take a picture of the site (screenshot) with a poke on the camera ...

You can drag a fotik for the green cross.

You can adjust your bookmarks at any time ...

In the same window, you can create new groups of bookmarks.

FVD Speed \u200b\u200bDials for Mozilla Firefox  absolutely the same in settings and use - here is a link to this add-on .

Now the most necessary and most important thing ...

How to save and synchronize visual bookmarks between browsers

In order for the visual bookmarks of FVD Speed \u200b\u200bDials to be the same in all your browsers, you must install the extension EverSync for Google Chrome  and addition EverSync for Mozilla Firefox .

Yandex visual bookmarks for Firefox are a very convenient and fast way to visit your favorite web pages. By adding new web tabs to the Internet search engine, you will form a page with small tiles. When you click on each of them individually, you will be redirected to your chosen Internet resource. In fact, visual bookmarks are the same regular bookmarks in Firefox, but with one very significant difference.

What are visual bookmarks

Mozilla's standard bookmarks are a list of site names with favicon (small icons / icons in front of the website name) and look something like this.

In addition to the name and icon, there is no information about the resources, and not all sites have their own icons. Therefore, often in search of the desired web link you have to click on everything.

Yandex visual bookmarks are small screenshots of websites, with which you can immediately find the right resource and understand what it is about.

Yandex visual bookmarking for Mozilla Firefox

In current realities, there is an experimental additional application for the Mozil Internet browser, called "Visual Bookmarks from Yandex" and is available only to owners of the fifty-seventh version of Firefox.

On the right in the search line, enter the name of the application “Visual bookmarks from Yandex”, without quotes, and click on the icon with the image of the magnifying glass.

In the proposed list of extensions, select the required add-on. Using the “Install” button, we begin the installation.

After the final installation of the plugin when adding a new tab, and you will see a window in which you will have a kind of grid with tiles, bookmarks.