In a web browser Mozilla Firefox There is a special bookmarks bar where users can save links to the most needed and most frequently visited sites. However, if a lot of such tabs accumulate, they no longer fit on the panel and it becomes not very convenient to use them. To solve such problems, there are so-called visual bookmarks for the Mozilla Firefox browser. This article describes how to install the visual bookmarks bar and the basics of working with it: saving new items, customizing the interface, and so on.
Unfortunately, the Mozilla Firefox developers did not implement visual bookmarks in their program, like in Yandex or Opera. However, users can install special extensions that add this functionality. Since Mozilla Firefox is quite popular, many different plugins are released for it.
To familiarize yourself with the range of applications and install the ones you need, users can use the standard catalog of plugins for Firefox. To do this you will need to do the following:
Immediately after installation, the new application will be ready to use.
Visual bookmarks from Yandex
One of the most popular browser extension developers is Yandex. It has released a whole set of applications for browsers - Yandex Elements. This product has its own website, so you don't have to waste time searching for it in the catalogue.
Follow the link https://element.yandex.ru/ to the main page of the resource. Here you can save and install a complete set of all Elements. It includes:
- "Smart line" from
- Yandex Advisor for online stores.
- Plugin for working with cloud storage.
- Protection against phishing and viruses.
- Music player.
- Weather widget.
- Quick access to interactive maps"YandexTraffic".
- Mail client.
- Translator.
- And, of course, an express panel for bookmarks.
If you do not need all these applications, you need to click on the “What's Included” link, which is located at the bottom of the screen. In the drop-down list, select the section " Visual bookmarks" Click on the yellow “Install” button, which is located at the very bottom of the page that opens.
In the pop-up window that opens, you need to click “Allow” to begin the installation. After this, everything you need will be downloaded to your personal computer, and you can get to work.
Saving your favorite sites using the Yandex service
Immediately after installation, an express panel will appear at your disposal. It will be visible whenever you open a new tab (instead of a blank page). By default, this interface contains a search bar from Yandex and a field of 12 cells in which selected sites are located in the form of tiles.
The most important part of the job is saving your favorite websites. To do this, you need to click on the transparent “+Add bookmark” button at the very bottom of the screen. A special interface for adding will open. Here users can add a new tab from the list of popular or recently visited resources, or simply enter the address of the desired site.
The modern Internet user browses enough a 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 different browsers installed on your computer, then use Firefox) elements of Yandex. 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 start page (those who need this can leave them) 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 right bottom corner and click the “Settings” link. 
What are visual bookmarks from Yandex? This is an add-on that is available not only in Yandex Browser, but also in browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and even Internet Explorer. Such extensions allow simplify your work with sites, since the most important ones can be added to the display on the main window of the program.
If you install a plugin from Yandex, you will have access to an address bar where you can enter resource addresses and search queries, and you will also have quick access to elements and social networks.
In Yandex Browser, elements are configured as follows:
At the top we see the Yandex search bar; if you wish, you can change the search engine in the settings.
To delete a site, right-click on it and click on the item “ Delete». 
The functions for supplementing Yandex visual bookmarks differ depending on the browser used.
How to set up visual bookmarks in Google Chrome
Chrome is a very popular and used tool. It has many plugins for increasing functionality. Go to settings and go to the section " Additional tools
" There we find the item “ Extensions». 
In the window that opens, scroll down and click on the link “ More extensions».
We are redirected to the browser add-ons page. In the search bar on the left, enter the phrase “ visual bookmarks Yandex" and select the desired result. 
Click install extension.
Now open a new tab and make sure that the add-on has installed correctly. You have access to panels with elements where you can add any site, a search bar from Yandex.ru and the necessary settings.
Click on the button " Settings" A panel will open on the right where we can:
There are also additional options where you can enable or disable the address bar, information bar, zen (news) and contextual suggestions.
On the main window you can go to history, view the dollar exchange rate and the weather, and below you can see blocks with news, which you can turn off if you wish.
Bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla is also a popular browser among users. In particular, it has a large number of different plugins that other browsers do not have.
On the empty tab there will be many blocks with resources; you can delete them and add your own. The settings for this add-on are exactly the same as in Chrome.
To remove a site from the main panel, move the mouse cursor to its upper right corner, after a couple of seconds it will appear several shortcuts: Pin, customize and delete. 
How to set visual bookmarks for any browser
In order not to search every time in the extensions for each browser for the necessary add-on, you can take the simple route. Using Google Chrome as an example, we perform the following operation:
Who taught browsers to create website thumbnails?
All "adventure games", like any other software, include only the most necessary, basic functions of web browsers, and additional features are implemented through add-ons (extensions, plugins), the writing of which is available to anyone. Browser makers provide the necessary information for this.
So, one of these additions (extensions) are visual and very easy-to-navigate bookmarks in the form of small copies of sites, and now the only thing left to do is figure out how to add bookmarks to the visual bookmarks of your browser.
Unlike standard ones (in some browsers “Favorites”), visual bookmarks no longer “live” on the user’s hard drive, but on the server of a site on the Internet that provides services for their storage. Their advantage over regular ones lies in their “independence” from the device used to access the Internet.
Visual thumbnails in the Mozilla browser
Despite the fact that the Chrome browser is the leader in the ranking of web browsers, there are many more users concerned about how to visually bookmark a page in Mozilla than those who are interested in this add-on in Chrome.
You can get to the page with extensions by clicking on the “Add-ons” line in the “Tools” menu or in the button menu with three bars at the top right, and also by typing the combination Ctrl + Shift + A.
Here, on the “Get Add-ons” page, you can click on the “More” button (at the top), which will take you to the website addons.mozilla.org, where in the “Extensions” menu there is a “Bookmarks” link. By following it, you can find suitable option visual options, sorting through 1369 extensions.
But in fact, in order to decide how to add bookmarks to visual bookmarks, just go to the "Extensions" page, type the phrase "Visual..." in the search bar and select any of several proposed extensions (Wishstorage, Tabsbook, Speed Start, etc.).
"Visual bookmarks online 1.081"
By clicking the "Install" button on the right, you will allow this add-on to be downloaded as a service onlinezakladki.ru, which can be used from the first click on the cross "Open a new tab" without registration and authorization.
By clicking on the gear button to the right of the search bar, tab settings open, among which there is a “Synchronization” section. When solving the problem of how to add bookmarks to visual bookmarks, we can select in it suitable way storing them and importing/exporting bookmarks from/to an HTML file.
The onlinezakladki.ru service, having secured its presence with an icon with an asterisk at the top right, allows you to select up to 40 bookmarks (the gear button to the right of the search bar) and will provide access to them from anywhere in the world. As soon as you move the cursor to a bookmark, the functions for editing and deleting it will immediately light up.
Editing operations include changing basic data (address, title) and adjusting the image to allow the use of a customized image.
Add new page You can access the bookmarks panel by clicking on the cross in the center of an empty bookmark or on the star icon at the top right.
How to Add Visual Bookmarks in Google Chrome
By default, they are already installed in Chrome, but these are only image links of the pages the user recently visited. Moreover, the new (last visited) page will appear in bookmarks only after restarting the browser, and no keys or combinations thereof will help, including Ctrl + R (the "Reload" command in the page context menu).
Automatically displayed in a new tab, they are devoid of any settings, except for deleting them by clicking on the cross in the upper right corner.
Such a thumbnail service will probably not suit those users who are interested in how to add visual bookmarks to Google Chrome. Therefore, silently click on the three stripes at the top right and select “Additional tools > Extensions”.
If there are no extensions in the window that opens, we agree to the offer: “Do you want to view the gallery?”, and if there are, then click on the “More extensions” link and get to the “Chrome Online Store”.
Here, of course, you can endlessly scroll through the page with countless applications, holding your eyes so as not to wander. But just to find out how to add visual bookmarks in Google Chrome, this
As in the Mozilla browser, here, too, you can simply type the phrase “visual...” in the store search at the top right and “+Install” (as the blue buttons on the right are labeled) any of several proposed extensions.
Among them are the already familiar service onlinezakladki.ru, Evorch, Atavi, Speed Dial and a number of other offers, the installation and configuration of which is simple and understandable for a user of any level, but for example, let’s look at how to add a visual bookmark with 3D mode in Chrome.
Visual bookmarks FVD Speed Dial
Click the “+Install” button, open a new tab and admire the beautiful and impressive express panel of visual bookmarks with 3D mode and synchronization functions.
All the necessary sites are visible, and if there are so many of them that your eyes run wild, you can sort them into groups, to create which you need to click on the cross in the upper right, next to the default groups.
For each site we can create our own thumbnail or use a collection of pictures from the gallery. For the express panel itself, you can also choose your own background if you are not satisfied with the “standard” themes.
Convenient and simple synchronization (a round icon with arrows catching up with each other in the menu at the top right) will allow us to have the same selection of sites on different browsers, computers and other mobile devices.
But in order to use synchronization, we will have to agree to the offer to download the Eversync application from the Chrome Web Store, after which a synchronization button will appear in the panel at the top right.
By clicking the indicated button, we will see a proposal to log in account EverSync (if available) or create a new account. We will have to agree to this, because, having figured out how to add visual bookmarks in Google Chrome, we need to figure out how to synchronize them with other browsers and various mobile devices.
Synchronizing standard links
The Ever Sync service can save and synchronize not only FVD Speed Dial bookmarks, but also standard ones (favorites). Click Bookmarks and deal with the window that opens.
Here we can enable/disable auto-synchronization, combine local and server information (Merge button), replace data on the server (Upload button) and replace local information (Download button).
To transfer (copy) bookmarks to the server, you need to decide between the actions “Merge” or “Download”, choosing the second if synchronization is performed for the first time. You will find the copied links by clicking the "My EverHelperAccount" button.
Now bookmarks copied to the cloud can be transferred to any other browser or computer if the EverSync extension is installed on it.
Sync links created in Speed Dial
To close the question of how to add visual bookmarks with 3D mode in Google, we return to the application menu and open the Speed Dial tab, where we will synchronize the bookmarks of this extension.
As in the previous case, click the “Download” button, confirm your choice (Ok) and after 10-40 seconds, making sure that “Synchronization was successful” (as indicated by three green checkmarks), close the window.
Visual Bookmarks are now ready to use on another computer or browser (if you have the Speed Dial application installed).
Visual bookmarks in the Yandex browser
Users of Mozilla, Chrome, Opera and a number of other well-known browsers whose home page is set to “Yandex” will confirm with what persistence and tenacity “Yandex” offers to download its browser.
And these efforts were crowned with success, because this browser is rapidly gaining popularity. Therefore, as a “snack”, let’s find out how to add a visual bookmark in Yandex.
One of the Yandex elements, the Visual Bookmarks add-on, is also popular among similar services. But if we try to install it in the browser, we will receive the following message: “The Yandex browser already has a board with visuals...”. And by adding a new tab, we will make sure of this.
And in order to “place” on the scoreboard new miniature site, you just need to click on the “baptized” inscription “Add”, enter the site address or its name and add a signature.
In the context menu of each tab, you can unpin it, delete it, change the site, and customize the thumbnail board in general.
Judging by the “demand” on the RuNet, this function in Yandex suits the majority of users. But here too, just like in Chrome, we can add a visual bookmark using any other service that we find in the catalog of add-ons for Yandex in the “Add-ons” section in the “three-bar” button menu at the top right.
Are you constantly confused by bookmarks in search of the right web resource? Place the most visited sites on the browser start page - this will make surfing much easier. You can do this using the Visual Bookmarks add-on from Yandex.
These “tiles” look more than attractive.
Visual bookmarks - what are they?
Visual bookmarks are a list of your bookmarks in the browser, displayed as organized icons on the start page and in a new browser tab. Maximum amount There are 25 links that can be placed, which is quite enough for comfortable access to the most visited resources.
Visual bookmarks from Yandex compare favorably with competitors thanks to:
- Easy to install and configure;
- They do not load the browser with additional advertising;
- The design is thought out to the smallest detail;
- Ability to import/export your own bookmarks directly into the panel.
Installation methods
Install Visual Bookmarks in Chrome browsers, Mozilla, Opera in two ways:
- Download a special extension from the store, for example, chrome.google.com/webstore or addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox.
- Install Yandex elements from the page element.yandex.ru.
In the Yandex browser, bookmarks, like , are part of it; you just need to enable them in the settings.
Enable bookmarks in Yandex Browser
1. By default, bookmarks are already enabled and appear in a new tab. If they are not there, go to settings.
2. Enable the items shown in the screenshot and restart the browser.
3. Switch to the “Scoreboard” section and the coveted “tiles” will appear in front of you.
Custom Settings
You can add the site you need or rearrange the list by clicking on the inscription “Customize screen”.
To make changes, use the buttons indicated in the figure and at the end, confirm by clicking on “Done”.
Visual bookmarks for FireFox and Chrome
As mentioned above, there are two options for installing Visual Bookmarks in third-party browsers.
Installation and configuration will be carried out in Mozilla, believe me, the differences from Google Chrome are minimal and you can easily repeat all the steps.
Special extension
1. The first method is to install a special extension for Mozilla. Download and activate it from the link - addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/yandex-visual-bookmarks/, from the official add-on store.
2. Open a new tab - the bookmarks should already appear. Go to settings and adjust the number of addresses displayed and their appearance.
3. You can sort the “tiles” to your liking by simply dragging them across the screen. To change or delete an address, hover your mouse over it and wait until the settings icons appear.
Element.yandex.ru
1. The website element.yandex.ru was created so that users do not embarrass themselves long searches the desired extension in stores - just press one button.
The setup is no different from the procedure described above.
How to remove visual bookmarks
As you may have already understood, you cannot delete bookmarks from them - you can only hide them by doing all the steps in reverse order.
To remove it from Chrome and FireFox, go to the add-ons section and delete the “Visual Bookmarks” extension.
How to restore bookmarks
When you change browser or move to a new computer, there is a need to transfer and restore previously added bookmarks.
You can restore them only if you have a previously saved data file. The method for obtaining it depends on the browser used, which we will discuss below.
Yandex browser
1. To save all data in the Yandex browser, go to the bookmark manager.
2. By clicking on the “Arrange” inscription, select “Export all bookmarks to an HTML file”.
3. Save the file in a safe place, and if you need to restore, do the same steps, selecting “Copy bookmarks from HTML file” at the end.
Visual bookmarks
Saving bookmarks using the Visual Bookmarks add-on is no different in other browsers.
1. Going to the add-on settings, select “Save to file”.
2. To restore – “Load from file”.
To summarize today's review, it should be emphasized that the add-on in question makes surfing the Internet much easier. Installation and configuration does not cause any special problems for users, apparently the experience of Yandex employees has affected it.
And most importantly, visual bookmarks are absolutely free and do not pose a threat to your computer.