Since the easily recognizable thumbnails of web pages appeared along with links in the Favorites, many users no longer recognize any other options than adding bookmarks to visual bookmarks.
Who taught browsers how to create site thumbnails?
All "walk-in", like any other software, include only the most necessary, basic functions of web browsers, and additional features are implemented through add-ons (extensions, plug-ins), the writing of which is available to everyone. The creators of the browsers provide the necessary information for this.
So, one of such add-ons (extensions) is the bookmarks in the form of small and easy-to-navigate bookmarks in the form of small copies of sites, and now it remains for the small one to figure out how to add bookmarks to the visual bookmarks of your browser.
Unlike standard ones (in some browsers "Favorites"), visual bookmarks "live" no longer on the user's hard drive, but on a server on the Web site that provides services for their storage. Their advantage over conventional ones is their “independence” from the device used to access the Internet.
Mozilla Visual Thumbnails
Despite the fact that the Chrome browser leads the ranking of web browsers, users who are worried about how to add a page to visual bookmarks in Mozilla are much more 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 menu of the button with the three bars in the upper right, and also by typing the combination Ctrl + Shift + A.
Here on the page "Get Extras" you can click on the button "Details" (above), which will lead to the site addons.mozilla.org, where in the menu of the item "Extensions" there is a link "Bookmarks". By clicking on it, you can find a suitable option for visual options by going through 1369 extensions.
But actually, in order to decide how to add bookmarks to visual bookmarks, just go to the "Extensions" page, type in the search bar the phrase "Visual ..." and select any of several proposed extensions (Wishstorage, Tabsbook, Speed Start, etc.).
Despite the fact that by clicking on the "Details" link to the right of the name of each extension, we will find out everything about the proposed service, for example, consider one of them.
"Visual bookmarks online 1.081"
By clicking the "Install" button on the right, you will allow this add-on to download onlinezakladki.ru as a new tab , which you can use from the first click on the "Open a new tab" cross without registering and authorizing.
By clicking on the gear button to the right of the search bar, tab settings are opened, among which there is a section "Synchronization". Solving the problem of how to add bookmarks to visual bookmarks, we can choose the appropriate way to store them in it and import / export bookmarks from / to the HTML file.
The onlinezakladki.ru service, having fixed its presence with an icon with an asterisk in the upper 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. One has only to bring the cursor to the bookmark, the functions of its editing and deleting will immediately light up.
Editing operations include changing the main data (address, name) and image settings, allowing you to use an individual picture.
You can add a new page to the bookmarks panel by clicking on the cross in the center of an empty bookmark or the star icon in the upper right.
How to add visual bookmarks in Google Chrome
By default, they are already installed in Chrome, but only these are links to the pages last visited by the user. Moreover, the new (last visited) page will appear in bookmarks only after restarting the browser, and no keys or their combination will help, including Ctrl + R (the "Reload" command in the page context menu).
Automatically appearing on a new tab, they are deprived of any settings except deleting them by clicking on the cross in the upper right corner.
Such a miniature service, perhaps, will not suit those users who are interested in how to add visual bookmarks to Google Chrome. Therefore, silently click on the three strips in the upper right and select "Additional tools> Extensions".
If there are no extensions in the opened window, we agree to the offer: “Do you want to view the gallery?”, And if so, click on the link “More extensions” and get to the “Chrome Web Store”.
Here, of course, you can endlessly scroll through the page with countless applications, holding your eyes so as not to scatter. But in order to only learn how to add visual bookmarks to Google Chrome, this is Sisyphus labor.
As in the Mozilla browser, here you can also simply type the phrase “visual ...” in the store search in the upper right and “+ Install” (the blue buttons on the right are labeled so) any of several proposed extensions.
Among them is 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 as an example, consider how to add a visual bookmark with 3D mode in Chrome.
FVD Speed Dial visual bookmarks
Press the "+ Install" button, open a new tab and admire the beautiful and effective express panel of visual bookmarks with 3D-mode and synchronization functions.
All the necessary sites are in plain sight, and if there are so many of them that “eyes run wide”, 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 the collection of pictures from the gallery. For the express panel itself, you can also choose your own background, if you do not like the "regular" themes.
Convenient and simple synchronization (a round icon with catching up arrows 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 the synchronization button will appear in the upper right panel.
By clicking the specified button, we will see a proposal to log in to your EverSync account (if any) or create a new account. We’ll have to agree to this because, having figured out how to add visual bookmarks to Google Chrome, we need to figure out how to synchronize them with other browsers and various mobile devices.
Sync Standard Links
After registering (authorizing), we get to the Eversync application menu with four tabs: Profile (Account), Speed Dial, Bookmarks and Backups.
Ever Sync service can save and synchronize not only FVD Speed Dial bookmarks, but also standard (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 "Combine" 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, go back 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 the three green checkmarks "tell"), close the window.
Visual Bookmarks are now ready for 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 with Yandex installed on their homepage will confirm how persistently and persistently Yandex offers to download their browser.
And these efforts were crowned with success, because this browser is rapidly gaining popularity. Therefore, "for starters" find out how to add a visual bookmark in Yandex.
One of the elements of Yandex, the addition of Visual Bookmarks, 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 visual display ...". And by adding a new tab, we will see this.
And in order to "put" a new site thumbnail on the scoreboard, you just need to click on the "baptized" inscription "Add", enter the address of the site or its name and add a signature.
In the context menu of each tab, you can unpin, delete, change the site and configure the scoreboard with thumbnails in general.
Judging by the "demand" in Runet, this function in "Yandex" suits most users. But here we can, just as in Chrome, add a visual bookmark using any other service that we find in the add-ons catalog for Yandex in the Add-ons section of the three-striped menu in the upper right button.