Visual bookmarks yandex google chrome. Yandex visual bookmarks for Google Chrome. For example, for Mozilla it looks like this
When visiting sites on the Internet, many of us use visual bookmarks Google Chrome. Useful and interesting sites are added to visual bookmarks.
You add a site to bookmarks so that you can conveniently and quickly visit the desired site by simply clicking on its name from the list of sites bookmarked. Bookmarks are usually placed on the bookmarks bar, but a more convenient solution would be to use the express panel or visual bookmarks panel for this.
The Express panel, being the home page, opens a page with visual bookmarks when you start the browser. Visual bookmarks are images of thumbnails of pages of sites added to bookmarks. When you click on such a bookmark thumbnail, you are immediately taken to the desired site, without entering its address in the browser address bar.
The Google Chrome browser also has an Express Bar, which consists of thumbnails of the most frequently visited sites. This solution is not entirely convenient to use, and the required sites cannot be permanently pinned to such a panel.
For the Google Chrome browser, many extensions have been created to create an express panel of visual bookmarks, the so-called visual bookmarks for Google Chrome.
This article will look at extensions that allow you to create an express panel for the Google Chrome browser: Visual Bookmarks from Yandex, Mail.ru “Visual Bookmarks” and Speed Dial 2 (ru).
Visual Yandex Bookmarks for Google Chrome
To install the “Visual Bookmarks” extension from Yandex in the Google Chrome browser, you will need to click on the “Setting up and managing Google Chrome (Wrench)” => “Tools” => “Extensions” button.
In the Chrome Online Store window, in the Store Search field, enter the expression: “Visual bookmarks,” and then press the “Enter” key on your keyboard.
In the search results window, select the “Visual Bookmarks” extension from Yandex, and then click on the “Install” button. In the “Confirmation of a new extension” window, click on the “Add” button. After this, the “Visual Bookmarks” extension from Yandex will be installed in the Google Chrome browser.
When you launch the Google Chrome browser, the “Visual Bookmarks” page will open. In the lower right corner of the page window there is a “Customize” button, which is intended for configuring this extension. After clicking on the “Customize” button, the “Configuring visual bookmarks” window will open.
In this window, you can select the number of displayed bookmarks by clicking on the bottom right bookmark (48 visual bookmarks are supported).
You can choose a “Background Image” from the ones provided for you to choose from, or upload your own background image from your computer. In order to upload your background image you will need to click on the “Add” button. In the Explorer window, select the image that you want to make the background and click on the “Open” button.
The image you added will then become the background image on your visual bookmarks page. You can add more of your images and delete them if you click on the "Delete" button after selecting the image to delete.
The default blend method is fill. In this case, the background image fills the entire space of the browser window. You can choose a different option to display the background image.
You can select the “general bookmark update interval” at your discretion.
The “Display bookmarks bar” item is responsible for displaying the bookmarks bar; you can uncheck this box to remove the extra bar from the “Visual bookmarks” page. After making the settings, click on the “Save” button and proceed to adding your pages to the Visual Bookmarks thumbnail windows.
At the top of the window with a visual tab there are controls for this tab: “Hide”, “Edit”, “Update”, “Delete”.
In order to add your visual bookmark to a page with visual bookmarks, you will need to click on the free window. In the “Edit visual bookmark” window, you will need to enter the address of the site to be added; in the example, I entered the name of my site. If you want, you can enter a name for this visual bookmark. Next, click on the “Save” button.
A new bookmark thumbnail has appeared on the Visual Bookmarks page. You can move visual bookmarks, swap them, hide them, add new ones, and delete them.
To disable the “Visual Bookmarks” extension from Yandex in Google browser Chrome, you will need to click on the “Settings and Management (Wrench)” button in the browser window => “Tools” => “Extensions”. In the list of extensions you have installed, you will need to uncheck the box next to “Enabled” in the “Visual Bookmarks” line from Yandex. After this, the extension will be disabled.
If you want to remove this extension, then you will need to click on the “Delete (Trash)” button. After confirming your consent to deletion, the Visual Bookmarks from Yandex extension will be removed from the Google Chrome browser.
Yandex has updated its visual bookmarks and now they look slightly different than the old visual bookmarks.
Visual bookmarks from Yandex for Google Chrome (video)
To install another visual bookmarks extension - the Mail.ru “Visual Bookmarks” extension for the Google Chrome browser, you will need to click on the “Setting up and managing Google Chrome (Wrench)” => “Tools” => “Extensions” button. In this window, click on the “More extensions” link.
In the “Chrome Online Store” window, in the “Search by Store” field, you will need to enter the expression “Visual Bookmarks”, and then press the “Enter” key on your keyboard.
In the search results window, select the Mail.ru “Visual Bookmarks” extension, and then click on the “Install” button. In the Confirmation of a new extension window, click on the Add button.
Now, when you open the Google Chrome browser, the Mail.ru “Visual Bookmarks” extension window will open. To add your own visual bookmark, you will need to click in the empty bookmark window. After this, the “Site Address” window appears to add the address of the desired site.
A new visual bookmark has been added to the “Visual Bookmarks” page. By clicking on the links at the top of a bookmark's thumbnail, you can edit or delete that bookmark.
This add-on provides 9 windows for adding visual bookmarks.
To disable the Mail.ru “Visual Bookmarks” extension, you will need to click on the “Settings and Management (Wrench)” button => “Tools” => “Extensions”. In the “Extensions” window, in the Mail.ru “Visual bookmarks” field, you will need to uncheck the box next to the “Enabled” item.
To remove this extension, you need to click on the “Delete (Trash)” button, and after confirmation, the extension will be removed from your browser.
Several extensions for visual bookmarks have been developed for the Google Chrome browser similar names. Of these extensions, perhaps one of the best is the Speed Dial 2 (ru) extension.
To install this extension, click on the “Settings and Management (Wrench)” button => “Tools” => “Extensions”. In the Chrome Web Store window, in the Search by Store field, enter the expression “Speed Dial”, and then press the Enter button.
Select the Speed Dial 2 (ru) extension from the list of extensions that were found, and then click on the “Install” button. In the “Confirmation of a new extension” window, click on the “Add” button.
After launching the browser, the settings window for this extension opens.
After that, click the “Continue” button in the opening windows, reading information about the settings of this extension. If you do not want to read this information, then click on the “Skip Introductory Tour” link.
The next Import Most Visited Websites window will give you the option to Import Selected Sites or Skip. You can uncheck the boxes next to those sites that you do not want to add to the express panel.
In the next window, click on the “Start” button.
To add a site to the Speed Dial 2 (ru) extension page, you will need to click on the page, and then in the “Add” window you will need to fill out two fields: “Link to page” and “Title”. After entering the link, you can copy it into the “Title” field. Next, click on the “Save” button.
A window with a site thumbnail appeared on the quick access page. In order for the site image to appear (Create a thumbnail), you will need to click on the thumbnail of the added site.
After adding a thumbnail, the added site became easily recognizable by its image. At the bottom of the image thumbnail you can see the number of times you have visited this site.
By right-clicking on the site thumbnail window, you can make the necessary settings or remove the site from the visual bookmarks bar.
If you move your mouse to the right edge of the visual bookmarks page, a Sidebar will open where you can see Bookmarks and Recently Closed Tabs.
To configure the Speed Dial 2 (ru) extension, click on the “Configure and manage Google Chrome (Wrench)” button => “Tools” => “Extensions”. In this window, in the Speed Dial 2 (ru) extension field, you will need to click on the “Settings” link.
In the Settings window, you can make the necessary settings as you wish. There are quite a few settings in this window to customize this extension as you wish.
To disable the Speed Dial 2 (ru) extension, you will need to click on the “Settings and Controls (Wrench)” => “Tools” => “Extensions” button. In the Extensions window, in the “Speed Dial 2 (ru)” field, you will need to uncheck the box located opposite the “Enabled” item.
To remove the Speed Dial 2 (ru) extension, you need to click on the “Delete (Trash)” button and after confirmation, the extension will be removed from the Google Chrome browser.
How to restore old visual bookmarks
After updating the extension from Yandex for the Google Chrome browser, the display of thumbnails of visual bookmarks in the browser has changed. Drawn thumbnails are now displayed; there are no images of website pages that have been added to visual bookmarks.
To solve this problem, in new version Visual bookmarks extensions for Google Chrome; in the settings you will need to enable the display of screenshots of website pages.
For those. who prefers to use the old version of the visual bookmarks extension for Google Chrome, I wrote about how you can use the old version of the extension again.
After new installation old version extensions to the Google Chrome browser, old visual bookmarks for Google Chrome will be restored.
Conclusions of the article
You can install extensions with visual bookmarks in the Google Chrome browser, which make it easier for the user to navigate to the sites they need.
Speed Dial 2 extension (ru) for Google Chrome (video)
The Google Chrome browser is excellent in many respects: speed, ease of use, security, extensibility and many others. But the developers didn’t think through visual bookmarks or didn’t really want it.
By default, Chrome has regular bookmarks, which can also be placed in a row under the address bar, and some sort of visual bookmarks that appear in a new tab. These bookmarks display the most recently visited pages and cannot be influenced in any way. The good thing about Chrome is that any of its shortcomings can be eliminated with the help of additional extensions. I first saw visual bookmarks in the Opera browser. When they were born, it was something new and quickly became fashionable.
How to install an extension in Google Chrome
To install visual bookmarks in Chrome, you just need to install the extension you like or use cloud service. Installing different extensions is no different 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 latest ones. To add a new site, click the “Add Bookmark” button. You can select one of your recently visited sites or enter your own link and name. Managing bookmarks is very simple: you can rearrange them by dragging them with the mouse, change links and names, hide and delete. When you hover your cursor over the bookmark icon, menu icons appear with which you can do all these actions.
Let's click on the "Settings" button in the lower right corner and see what's there.
- We can select the number of visible bookmark icons, the maximum number is 25 bookmarks, which should be enough for any purpose.
- You can choose a ready-made page background or upload your own picture, and also mark the background to change every day :)
- Using the “Bookmarks 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 disabled them, and they look ridiculous without icons
- Search bar: for quick search in Yandex
- Contextual suggestions: Yandex advertising, I think it’s worth turning off :)
- Show information panel: weather, traffic jams, dollar exchange rate
- Show a personal recommendations feed in a new Zen tab: you will immediately see the latest articles on your interests in Zen
Advantages and disadvantages of cloud bookmarks
There are a lot of 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, no matter what browser you use, on a computer or tablet, on Windows or MacOS, you can always go to your cloud and use saved links.
For example, at work you have a corporate Internet Explorer or any other browser installed. Not an easy time working day There are several interesting links that you need to open at home in Google Chrome. In such a situation it will no longer help. Now you can save your bookmarks in the cloud, which is accessible from anywhere there is an Internet connection.
The only disadvantages are the need for registration and the possible loss of all links if the service disappears. But if bookmark data is stored on a computer, then the risk of losing it is even higher. There is also the inconvenience of adding new bookmarks, because... I had to manually copy the links and add them to the piggy bank. But there are services that offer an additional browser extension, for example the excellent and free bookmark manager Atavi.
In principle, the same Yandex bookmarks are an interweaving of the cloud and extensions for Chrome, but they can work completely autonomously, while purely cloud ones always require the Internet. Perhaps, Yandex loses only in that on different computers you will have to log in under your Yandex name, which is unsafe, and it no longer opens in all countries, and the functionality of visual bookmarks is a matter of taste.
Installing the Atavi extension
To begin, go to the site using the button, go through small master for setup and register by entering your username and password. Nothing else is required, you don’t even need to confirm your registration from the letter.
Agree to grant rights to the extension using the “Add” button. The home page will be changed to atavi.com and a notification will be issued. Video:
Basic techniques for working with bookmarks
Everything is as simple as two or two. The home page 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”, “Latest” and the “Currency” I created.
To add a new bookmark, click on free place with a large plus sign, enter the address, name and select the group:
Or simply right-click on the page of any site that we want to save and select “Send to bookmarks on Atavi” from the context menu
The new element will appear on the home 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 the mouse over the element
You can also move links between groups by simply dragging them with the mouse onto the desired group tab. You can also add a new bookmark using the Atavi icon in the browser address bar, in this case you can immediately change the name and group
To create or edit a group, use the gear button at the bottom right of the Atavi window. By default, clicking on a group tab takes you to it, but in edit mode it becomes possible to change the group name. To complete editing, you need to click on the gear again and select “Finish.”
Share bookmarks with friends
Export, backup, import
Any service that respects its users, of course, has a function to export all links, just in case. Here this function is in general settings:
Everything is saved in a convenient HTML format, i.e. as a simple page that opens in the browser, and all links are clickable:
In the settings you can also change appearance or switch to shortened mobile version. And if you uncheck “Include groups”, then all bookmarks from all groups will fit on one page.
The developers have gone even further and propose making 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 the Atavi settings. Or install the extension, it will do everything 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 apps for them too.
I completely switched to Atavi and I advise you. I liked the intuitive interface, fast speed work, the ability to add bookmarks from the address bar. Of course, the main focus is on integration with Google Chrome, but it can also be used, be it Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer.
Veteran of visual bookmarks - Speed Dial 2
This tool allows you to completely customize the appearance and style of bookmarks, import the most visited sites, view statistics, export your settings and something else.
Now let's open a new tab to see how the extension works. When you first start, you will be asked to go through an introductory tour, or skip this step. I advise you to look through it quickly so that there are no questions later. Next, a wizard will launch to add your most visited sites to bookmarks. 
For the first time, added bookmarks are displayed without a thumbnail image, and I didn't like it. To add a picture, you need to go to the bookmark once or click “Create a sketch”. Speed Dial settings are called up from the menu by right-clicking on an empty space. There are a lot of settings, we’ll look at the main ones here, and watch the video for the rest.
In the main settings we can:
- Select the number of columns with bookmarks (default 5)
- Distance between bookmark thumbnails, in pixels
- Bookmark ordering method: manually by dragging and dropping or automatically by number of visits
- Center vertically so that the bookmarks bar is in the middle of the screen
- Specify how often to update the preview
The Speed Dial 2 extension has a sidebar that appears when you move your mouse to the right edge of the window. There are all the regular and recent closed bookmarks. You can also select or upload a background image. Another interesting feature is synchronization with the social bookmarking service Delicious.
How to disable and remove old extensions
After searching and experimenting, you may end up with several unnecessary extensions that will . To disable an unnecessary extension, go to “Menu -> Additional tools -> Extensions”, find the add-on and uncheck “Enabled”
And to delete it completely (the settings are not saved!) you need to click on the trash can and agree to the deletion.
Popular browser Google Chrome, search system which has many capabilities: installing extensions, changing the visual design and working with various additional applications are only a small part of its functions.
Installing an app from the Chrome Web Store
Google Chrome offers many options for customizing functionality. Various applications and extensions can adapt the browser to the specific needs of the user.
Let's look at installing an additional application using the simple Polarr graphic editor as an example.
A form will appear below the address bar indicating that your favorites have been successfully added. Here you can select a folder to save the bookmark.
If you do not specify a destination, the page will be saved in the “Others” folder.
If you set the destination to “Bookmarks Bar,” it will appear in the panel immediately below the search bar.
Favorite pages can be opened with one click from the list in the corresponding menu item or from the already mentioned bookmarks bar.
Creating visual bookmarks
For additional convenience of working in Chrome, you can install a special extension that will add visual google chrome bookmarks.
To do this, you need to visit the Chrome Web Store.
How to do this is indicated in the first part of the article. You must specify Speed Dial in the search bar.
In search results, you need Speed Dial 2. In its tile, you need to click the “+ Free” button. After this, a window will open in which you need to approve the installation.
After installation is complete, you must open a new tab and click “Save Changes” in the warning window that opens.
After these manipulations, the extension is ready to add the first bookmark. If you want to view the greeting with detailed description some functions, you need to click “Continue”.
If there is no such desire, then “Skip greeting.”
After this you will be able to start adding.
To add the first page you need to click the plus in the circle. A window with editing bookmark properties will open.
- Field for copying the link.
- The name of the link that will be placed under the thumbnail in the panel
- Button to save a bookmark.
- A button for quickly saving a bookmark from an open page.
A page with ready-made visual bookmarks will now open on each new tab. If desired, this option can be disabled in the browser settings.
Adding a visual browser theme
To install a theme in Google Chrome, you will need the Chrome Online Store. You can open it from the menu to the right of the address bar.
The “Additional tools” item, which contains the “Extensions” column, is responsible for this.
By clicking on it, the extensions menu will open, in which there is a link “More extensions”, which opens the mentioned store.
In the content type menu, select “Themes”. After this, a page with “tiles” of provided topics will open. From there they choose the one they like.
If you know the exact name of the topic, you can enter it into the search query form.
Having made your choice, you need to click on the theme thumbnail, then a window will open with its more detailed description and the ability to install it.
The blue “Install” button is responsible for this, located to the right of the theme name.
When you click it, the theme will be installed and the Google Chrome browser will look different.
With the above information, using additional browser features will not be difficult.
Visual bookmarks in Google Chrome
In this video tutorial we will talk about visual bookmarks in Google Chrome and how to increase their number.
For many, visual bookmarks for the Google Chrome browser are one of the most important things when surfing the Internet. The built-in capabilities of the browser are not always enough, and sometimes you want a more customized interface.
It’s most convenient when the start page, new tab and clicking on the “Home” button open the same panel with visual bookmarks of the Google Chrome browser.
For those who don’t have enough of all the functions and want more, we are publishing our selection of visual bookmark extensions for Google Chrome:
Yandex visual bookmarks
Are you missing the 8 standard bookmarks in Google Chrome™? Place “Visual Bookmarks” from Yandex! With these you can increase them to 25.
In addition, you will always have your browser's Bookmarks Bar at your fingertips.
From the Visual Bookmarks page you can easily launch Google Chrome™ Apps.
Atavi bookmark manager
Atavi is a free and most convenient service for Saving and Synchronizing bookmarks. Do you have Windows installed at home and Mac OS at work? Do you alternate between a laptop, a PC and an Android smartphone? Are there different browsers installed everywhere? This is not a problem for Atavi! You can access your bookmarks at any time and from any device on any OS. To do this, just go to Atavi.com from any device and enter the login (e-mail) and password specified during registration.
Synchronize Chrome bookmarks with Firefox, Opera, IE and other browsers is now easier than ever!
Speed Dial
All the necessary sites are always before your eyes! And if there are a lot of sites, then you can distribute them into groups.
Convenient synchronization will allow you to have the same set of sites on different computers, as well as on mobile devices!
You can create your own preview of each site, and you can always choose a picture for a preview from our gallery. For the express panel itself, you can set your own background or use our themes.
Do you want someone else to see the list of your favorite sites (for example, work colleagues)? Then there is a Power Off function for you, which will allow you to set a password on your express panel.
The “Top Page Bookmarks” extension changes the standard Google Chrome tab to the Top-Page.ru bookmarking service and allows you to save any page to Top-Page.ru bookmarks without switching to the service. To do this, you need to call up the context menu by right-clicking and select “Send to Top-Page Bookmarks”.
Organizing bookmarks in your browser is a procedure that will increase your productivity. Visual bookmarks are one of the most popular ways to arrange web pages in such a way that you can quickly access them at any time.
Today we will take a closer look at how to add new visual bookmarks for three popular solutions: standard visual bookmarks, visual bookmarks from Yandex and Speed Dial.
In standard visual bookmarks
By default, the Google Chrome browser has some semblance of visual bookmarks with very limited functionality.
Standard visual bookmarks display frequently visited pages, but, unfortunately, you won’t be able to create your own visual bookmarks here.
The only way to customize visual bookmarks in this case is to delete unnecessary ones. To do this, move the mouse cursor over the visual bookmark and click on the icon with a cross that appears. After this, the visual bookmark will be deleted, and its place will be taken by another web resource you frequently visit.
In visual bookmarks from Yandex
Yandex Visual Bookmarks are a great, simple way to place all the web pages you need in the most visible place.
In order to create a new bookmark in the Yandex solution, click the button in the lower right corner of the visual bookmarks window "Add bookmark" .
A window will appear on the screen in which you will need to enter the page URL (site address), after which you will need to press the Enter key to make changes. After this, the bookmark you created will appear in the general list.
Please note that if there is an extra site in the list of visual bookmarks, it can be reassigned. To do this, hover your mouse over the bookmark tile, after which a small additional menu will appear on the screen. Select the gear icon.
The already familiar window for adding a visual bookmark will appear on the screen, in which you will need to change the current site address and set a new one.
In Speed Dial
Speed Dial is an excellent functional visual bookmark for Google Chrome. This extension has a wide range of settings, allowing you to customize each element in detail.
Once you decide to add a new visual bookmark to the Speed Dial, click the plus sign tile to assign a page to the empty bookmark.
In the window that opens, you will be asked to specify the page address and, if necessary, set a bookmark thumbnail.
Also, if necessary, an existing visual bookmark can be reassigned. To do this, right-click on the bookmark and in the menu that appears, click on the button "Change" .
In the window that opens, in the column "URL" specify the new visual bookmark address.
If all bookmarks are occupied and you need to set a new one, then you will need to increase the number of displayed bookmark tiles or create new group bookmarks. To do this, click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the window to go to the Speed Dial settings.
In the window that opens, open the tab "Settings" . Here you can change the number of displayed tiles (dials) in one group (by default it is 20 pieces).
In addition, here you can create separate groups of bookmarks for more convenient and productive use, for example, “Work”, “Study”, “Entertainment”, etc. To create a new group, click the button "Group Management" .
Next click on the button "Add group" .
Enter the name of the group and then click the button "Add group" .
Now, returning again to the Speed Dial window, in the upper left corner you will see the appearance of a new tab (group) with the previously specified name. By clicking on it, you will be taken to a completely blank page where you can start filling out your bookmarks again.
So, today we looked at the main ways to create visual bookmarks. We hope this article was useful to you.