The purpose of Visual Bookmarks is to quickly move from one web page to another. Very often, a website acts as the browser’s home page. Many users also prefer to set the search page for one of the two most popular search engines in our country - that is, put, say, Yandex or Google.
In this case, in order for the user to get to a specific resource, he needs to enter its name in the address bar area located at the top of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Another option is to save the site in the bookmarks bar in Mozilla. You can go there by clicking on “Bookmarks” and selecting the desired site.
In principle, this may seem quite simple to do. However, gradually, each time making such movements, you inevitably want to make your task even easier. It is for this purpose that IT companies have developed special browser extensions designed for Firefox. This addition successfully plays the role of a home page. One of the most popular and convenient extensions is “Visual Bookmarks” from Yandex for Mozilla Firefox. It is not difficult to install them. Just enter a query in a search engine, download and install the extension. It is important to remember that it is better to use only the official Firefox add-ons website. The download is absolutely free, and you can be sure that nothing unnecessary will get into your computer. Usually the official page is on the top or second line of search results.
This “Homepage” looks like a grid of windows, each of which includes a miniature image of the desired site. To do this, you just need to add the resource to the extension bookmarks. The number of windows can be easily adjusted using the settings panel. This makes it much more convenient to make the transition - just click on one of them.
Features of use
Normal functioning of “Visual Bookmarks” is not possible on all versions of Mozilla Firefox. To install and configure the extension at your discretion, you must have the Yandex panel. Bar. The vast majority of installed browsers have this panel by default. But if for some reason this did not happen, then you will need to find Yandex on the website bar.yandex.ru. A bar designed for Mozilla Firefox and installed independently. This bar is intended only for Mozilla and its usefulness is undeniable, as confirmed by reviews about Yandex. Bar for a large number of advanced users.
Yandex. The bar is not difficult to install; how to do it, read on.
Sometimes Mozilla Firefox prevents software installation. It is very simple to understand that this has happened: a message will appear at the top of the screen indicating that the installation from the site has been blocked. To solve this problem, simply click on the “Allow” button located in the upper right corner.
The next step is to click on the “Install Now” button, which is located in the “Software Installation” window that opens. Loading Yandex. The bara will begin in about ten seconds. After the installation procedure took place and Yandex. The bar is ready to operate successfully; you will need to restart the browser. This is necessary to complete the process completely. You don’t have to worry about rebooting, since the browser saves all windows that will be opened again the next time you start it.
Now installation and configuration of “Visual Bookmarks” from Yandex will be possible after accepting the terms of the license agreement.
How to install and make such bookmarks
So, how do you set up visual bookmarks like these? To start using the add-on, just press the Ctrl+T key combination on your keyboard. This will open a new browser tab where your bookmarks are pinned.
The Yandex Visual Bookmarks settings for Firefox are located in the lower right corner. Here you can set a background image. You can change the picture yourself, or it will change itself over a certain period of time.
A big advantage of Yandex bookmarks is the ability to create a certain number of windows for the taskbar. To enter a new window, just click on the transparent rectangular tab, which opens the “Editing” tab. Here you can enter the name of the site, which will now appear in “Visual Bookmarks”. To do this, click “Save”. It is possible to move windows between each other.
It is most convenient to use “Visual Bookmarks” when the extension is set as the home page. To do this, you need to open the “Firefox” panel, then “Settings”, and then “General”. There is a line “Home Page”. It introduces the yafd:tabs command. To complete the installation process, just click “OK”.
Additional benefits
The Yandex Visual Bookmarks extension for Mozilla Firefox can not only significantly simplify Internet surfing. Essentially, it's an incredibly compact toolbar that helps you do a lot of important tasks without interfering with your web browsing. In particular, a convenient search is preinstalled here directly from the address bar. In this case, the search works in the same way as the standard option. Here you will find hints that allow you to quickly give the desired form to your request, as well as correct errors and typos.
Yandex's "Visual Bookmarks" for Firefox make it possible to monitor the weather and traffic conditions in real time. With this extension, you won’t need to click on anything, you just need to look at the screen where the information is pinned.
Another convenience is receiving notifications from various services and social networks. If a certain event occurs on one of the services where the user is registered, the extension will immediately send a notification. An example is Yandex.Mail or social networks VKontakte, Facebook and others. You can reply directly from the visual bookmarks panel by simply clicking on the notification itself.
Visual bookmarks allow you to quickly navigate between web pages on the Internet. Many of you have some website set as your browser home page. Most often, such a page is the site of the search engine Yandex or Google.
In order to go to a specific site, you need to enter its name in the address bar, and if this site is saved in your bookmarks, then you need to select it in the bookmarks bar, or from the browser settings menu you should go to the “Bookmarks” item , and select the desired site from the bookmarks located there.
To perform these actions, you need to make quite a lot of body movements. To simplify launching the desired site from bookmarks, special add-ons (extensions) for the Mozilla Firefox browser have been developed.
Such an add-on installed in the browser becomes the home page. Bookmark windows appear on this page with a thumbnail image of the site you have added to your bookmarks. The number of such windows with bookmarks is regulated in the add-on settings. This makes it much more convenient to go to the desired site simply by clicking on its image.
The most famous add-ons of this type are Speed Dial and Fast Dial. Now I’ll tell you about two more similar add-ons: Yandex.Bar with visual bookmarks and Super Start.
In this article, you can read about a review of old visual bookmarks. The link to download the old version of the extension has been removed from the Yandex website, and now only the new version of the Visual Bookmarks from Yandex add-on can be downloaded from there.
From the article you will learn how to install the visual bookmarks extension file in the Mozilla Firefox browser. In the old version of the Visual Bookmarks extension for Mozilla Firefox, the add-on settings remained the same, as they are described in this article.
Visual Yandex bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox
To open visual bookmarks, you will need to click on the “Firefox” => “New Tab” => “New Tab” button (or the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl” + “T”). After this, a new tab appears in the browser - “Visual Bookmarks”.
To configure the extension, in the lower right corner you will need to click on the “Settings” button.
In the Visual Bookmarks: Settings window, you can select a background image for the page. In this window, you can choose when to update it, or never update this image. If you click on the "Add" button, you can upload a new background image from your computer.
Here you can also select the number of bookmarks horizontally and vertically (a total of 48 bookmarks are supported). You can add any new background image by clicking on the “Add” button and upload it from your computer.
To enter new visual bookmarks, click on the rectangular transparent bookmark. After this, the “Edit visual bookmark” window appears.
In this window, you must enter the name of the site that you want to add as a visual bookmark. You can also enter the name of the visual bookmark, but this is not necessary. After that, click on the “Save” button.
A visual bookmark with my site has been added. You can move bookmarks from place to place, edit them, update them, and delete them.
In order to make “Visual Bookmarks” the start page when you start the browser, you need to click on the “Firefox” => “Settings” => “Settings” button. In the “Basic” tab, in the “Home page” line, enter the expression “yafd:tabs”, and then click on the “OK” button.
Now when you open the Mozilla Firefox browser, the home page will be Visual Bookmarks.
Super Start Supplement
In order to install the Super Start add-on in your browser, you need to click on the “Firefox” => “Add-ons” => “Get add-ons” button. In the “Search among add-ons” field, you must enter the expression “Super Start”.
On the add-on page, click on the “Add to Firefox” button => “Install now” => “Restart now”. The Super Start extension is installed in the Mozilla Firefox browser.
To configure the installed add-on, you will need to click on the “Firefox” => “Add-ons” => “Extensions” => “Super Start” button.
In the Super Start extension field, click on the “Settings” button. In the general tab, check the box next to “Make Super Start your home page.”
In the display settings, you can change the number of “Windows in a row” (maximum number - 17) and “Minimum number of rows” (maximum number - 10). You can select the number of windows only horizontally; when adding new bookmarks, their number will increase automatically.
Check the box next to “Align page height as much as possible” so that the bookmarks fit on the monitor screen. You can check the “Display bookmarks” option. After this, you will need to click on the “OK” button.
In the view settings tab, you can check the box next to “Use your display settings.” After this, the control buttons of the “View Settings” tab are activated.
When you click on the “Select Image” button, an Explorer window will open, with its help you can select and upload an image from your computer. Also here you can “Delete the image” you have uploaded. If you don't upload an image, you can leave the background transparent or use one of the suggested background colors.
After restarting the Firefox browser, the Super Start extension became the home page.
In the upper right corner of the page, when you click on the colored round buttons, the background of the page will change to the corresponding color if you have not uploaded your image. To the right of the windows with bookmarks there is a button in the shape of a triangle. When you click on it, you can make your notes in the window that appears. You can then copy these entries into any text editor. When you press it again, the notes window disappears.
In the upper right corner of the page there is a “Bookmarks” button (if you check the box next to “Display in bookmarks in add-on settings”) and a “Recently closed” button.
Clicking on the "Bookmarks" button will open a list of your bookmarks, and clicking on the "Recently Closed" button will show you your recently closed bookmarks.
To add a site to your bookmarks page, you need to click on the corresponding window.
After that, the “Enter URL” window appears to enter the site address. When I entered the name of the site, hints with the site address appeared and I selected the full name of the site from the hint.
If you want, you can select an image from your computer that will be displayed instead of the site page image. Here you can give a name to the site, but this is not necessary. After that, click on the “OK” button.
At the top of the window with a site thumbnail there are control icons. Clicking the "Open in New Tab" icon will open the site in a new tab. By clicking on the corresponding buttons you can “Customize”, “Update” or “Delete site”.
The add-on adds sites in horizontal order, but you can move sites to any window.
In order for this site to open in a new window when you go to a site selected from the visual bookmarks, you must click on the small “Open in new tab” icon on the site page thumbnail, otherwise a new web page will open in this tab. This is not entirely convenient when using this extension. It would be more convenient if the site opened in a new tab simply by clicking on the window with the site’s thumbnail.
This is what the home page looks like with the background image loaded from my computer.
I liked the Super Start add-on more than Visual Bookmarks from Yandex, because in Super Start you can create a larger number of windows for thumbnails of visual bookmarks, and also because the bookmarks in this extension look more beautiful.
In order to disable or remove an add-on, you must click on the “Firefox” button => “Add-ons” => “Extensions” => here you select the appropriate add-on and click on the “Disable” or “Delete” button. After restarting the browser, the extension will be removed from the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Conclusions of the article
Review of visual bookmark extensions for the Mozilla Firefox browser: Yandex and Super Start visual bookmarks.
Hello, friends! In today's article we will look at how to install visual bookmarks in the Mozilla Firefox browser, we will dwell in detail on those developed by Yandex and learn how to configure a panel with them in this web browser.
Unlike the Yandex and Opera browsers, in Mozilla they are not a built-in feature. Therefore, to install them in Mozilla, you will need to download and install one of the suitable extensions in the browser.
Setting visual bookmarks
The principle of installing different browser extensions is no different. Accordingly, following further recommendations, you can install any add-on in Mozilla Firefox, thus expanding the capabilities of your Internet browser. This could be, for example, a page translator or a widget for weather and mail.
If you are interested, read the article by following the link.
You can install the extension we are interested in in Mozilla Firefox using the browser add-on manager. To do this, click on the button with three horizontal lines in the upper right corner and select “Add-ons” from the drop-down list.
On the left side, go to the “Get Add-ons” tab.
To view all search results, scroll down to the bottom of the list and click on the “View 195 results” button (there may be a different number).
To find out more about the selected extension, click on the “Details” button next to it. To install the extension in the browser, click “Install”, and then, in the window that appears, confirm the installation. After this, you may need to restart the browser.
After installing the selected add-on, its icon will appear to the right of the address bar. The most popular are Speed Dial, Fast Dial, Atavi. You can read more in another article on the site.
Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox
Now let's look at how to install them from Yandex in Mozilla Firefox. The required extension can be found in the list through the add-on manager, as described above. Then click Add to Firefox.
Another way to add them to Mozilla is to enter “visual bookmarks for mozilla” in the search bar. Under the first link, click "Install".
The Yandex Elements page, or, as they were called before, Yandex Bar, will open in a new tab. The set of these elements also includes visual bookmarks. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “Install” button.
Allow installation in the window that appears.
Once everything is downloaded, click Install, then restart your browser.
Setting up visual bookmarks
After installing the selected extension in the browser, you need to configure it in Mozilla Firefox.
First, let's see where they are. Click on the button with three horizontal stripes in the upper right corner and select “Add-ons”. Next, go to the “Extensions” tab. Here you will see a list of all extensions that are installed in the browser. At the previous point, in addition to what we needed, two more components were installed; if they are not needed, remove them by clicking on the corresponding button.
Let's move on to the settings. Let's look at this using the example of visual bookmarks from Yandex. Open a new tab in Mozilla by clicking on the plus sign in the top line.
The Yandex search bar will be displayed at the top, and below it there will be a panel with miniature images of the selected sites. By clicking on any of them, you will immediately go to the desired site. Below you will see buttons with which you can go to downloads, favorite sites, history, and view recently closed tabs.
In order to add the desired page to the panel in Mozilla, click on the “Add bookmark” button.
A modern Internet user views a fairly 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 lower right corner and click the “Settings” link. 
Yandex visual bookmarks for Firefox are a very convenient and fast way to visit your favorite Internet pages. By adding new web tabs to an Internet search engine, you will create a page with small tiles. When you click on each of them individually, you will be redirected to your chosen Internet resource. Essentially, visual bookmarks are the same regular bookmarks in the Firefox browser, but with one very significant difference.
What are visual bookmarks?
Standard Mozilla bookmarks are a list of website names with a favicon (small icons/icons in front of the website name) and look something like this.
Apart from 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 the help of which you can immediately find the desired resource and understand what it is about.
Installing Yandex visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox
In the current realities, there is an experimental additional application for the Internet browser Mozilla, called “Visual Bookmarks from Yandex” and it is available only to owners of the fifty-seventh version of Firefox.
In the search bar on the right, enter the name of the application “Visual Bookmarks from Yandex”, without quotes, and click on the icon with a magnifying glass.
Select the required add-on from the proposed list of extensions. Click the “Install” button to begin the installation.
After the final installation of the plugin, when you add a new tab, you will see a window in which you will have a kind of grid with bookmark tiles.
