Probably, each of us is familiar with such a service as Yandex Bookmarks. Using this add-on, you can quickly create any directory from your favorite sites and navigate to them without entering an address in the browser bar. Moreover, you can use the Yandex Visual Tabs service not only on a computer, but also on a laptop or even a smartphone. What is especially this add-on, how to use it and how to install? You will learn all this in our article today.
What are Yandex Visual Tabs for?
Clean for ease of use. This small but very useful addition makes your browser more functional and convenient to use. Agree, it is much better to open a new tab and click on the icon with your favorite site on it than enter its full name in the address bar or constantly search through the search engine. Go to any bookmark you like in one click. Also, one of the main advantages because of which Internet users install the Yandex Visual Tabs add-on on their browser is the ability to save up to 24 bookmarks. Thus, you can go to any of these 24 sites in one click without opening the search engine and without entering anything into the address bar.
Competitors
The main competitor to the Yandex Visual Tabs service is the Speed ​​Dial add-on. In fact, these two extensions practically do not differ from each other, the only thing is that in Yandex, when you open a new tab, your search is displayed (at the very top above the bookmarks). That is, if necessary, you do not need to go to Yandex, as it is already present in a new tab. The function is very convenient and does not interfere with working with bookmarks at all. Perhaps this is why the extension "Visual Tabs Yandex" is more popular in RuNet than the "Speed ​​Dial".
How to install this add-on?
It should be noted that visual tabs are available on several browsers at once:
- "Google Chrome";
- Firefox
- "Yandex browser".
In the case of the latter, this function is already present, but on the other two such an addition would not hurt.
How to set visual bookmarks in "Google Chrome"? First, click on the "grid", which is located in the upper right corner of the browser. After that, go to "Tools" - "Extensions". Further in the window you will see all the extensions that have already been installed in Google Chrome. We do not touch them, but go to the very bottom of the page. Here you will see the "More extensions" button. After clicking it, you will be taken to the Google Chrome Web Store. Now in the search engine, which is located in the upper left corner, you should enter the query "Visual Bookmarks Yandex." Then you will be taken to a page where it is described in more detail about this extension. We find the "Install" button, click "Add" and wait while the application is downloaded to the computer. The download process can be seen from the bottom left corner. As a rule, the download time is no more than 10 seconds (even with the slowest Internet no more than a minute), since the extension weighs about one megabyte. After downloading, you must install the add-on. There is nothing complicated here, and the installation itself does not last very long. That's all, you just have to restart your browser and open a new tab to make sure that it works.
How to install the extension in "Firefox"?
Installing this add-on in this browser is similar to the previous case. In "Firefox" you need to go into the extension and type the request "Visual bookmarks." Once there is a suitable application, download it and install it. Do not forget to restart the browser, as often in such cases the tabs may not appear immediately, you need to close and reopen the program.
An easier way to set tabs from Yandex
There is another add-on jump method that can work for both Mozilla and Google Chrome. After entering the query “Download visual bookmarks from Yandex” into the search bar, we go to the plugin’s official website. Here the site will automatically detect your browser and download the appropriate version of the extension for you.
How to use it? How to make tabs in Yandex?
Using this extension is very simple. If you want to add any site you like to the tab, you need to hover your mouse over any of the 24 tabs (by the way, at any time you can move it to another or replace it) and move the mouse cursor over the icon. After that, you will see three gray icons for editing. When you hover over them, prompts appear. We need to select the "Settings" button. It is on the left, looks like a gear. We click on it with the right mouse button, and a window appears in front of us with the address bar and the name of the site (if it is saved there). Enter the address of the site you like and click "OK." The application itself determines the name, so you can leave this line blank. The same thing happens with the icon. It sometimes does not appear immediately, so here you also need to restart the browser (although the bookmarks themselves can be used immediately after the settings, without rebooting).
How to make Yandex a new tab?
Similarly to the above steps, open the settings and enter "Yandex official website" in the address bar. Click "OK" and check the bookmark. Usually, this application already includes such a tab as VKontakte and Yandex News. But that is not all. Go to its official website by clicking the "Yandex" button at the top of the search bar. Everything is very simple and convenient.
How to make new Yandex tabs, we’ve already figured out, now let's talk about how to delete a particular bookmark. This is done even faster than adding. When you hover over the icon with the site that you want to delete, select the gray cross and click the mouse button. After that, the bookmark itself will be deleted from the panel. In its place, you can install a new one or move an icon to another place. You can move bookmarks in any direction, just hold down the tabbed image with the mouse button and drag it to the desired location in the window.
Additional application settings
It is worth noting that the “Settings” button is highlighted not only when the cursor is on the icon. There are two of them in total. One of them is located in the lower right corner of the page. After clicking it, you can choose a background for bookmarks (by the way, there are very interesting images there) and choose the number of tabs. In earlier versions, you could choose up to 48, now only 24. However, this amount is enough to save all your favorite sites in one page.
How to remove tabs in Yandex?
If you do not want to use the visual bookmarking service anymore, you can delete this application from the browser. But it’s best not to uninstall, but to disable the extension so that you don’t reinstall it on your computer or laptop later. It is worth noting that there is no general rule for disabling tabs on all browsers, so everyone has different options for deleting bookmarks.
How to delete tabs in Yandex? If you use the Google Chrome application, go to the main menu under the "bars" next to the address bar. Next, find "Settings" and right-click. On the left you will see a menu in which there is an item "Extensions". Go into it. Here, as during installation, you will see a list of add-ons you have installed. Find "Visual Bookmarks" in the list. A basket-shaped icon will be visible next to them. After clicking on it, all bookmarks that you previously installed are automatically deleted.
And now about how to disable the tab option in "Mozilla". To do this, you need to open a browser window, in the upper part find the "Tools" section, select the "Add-ons" item. After that, a panel will appear before you, which relates to visual bookmarks (usually it is in the settings for Yandex Bar). Opposite this item, you need to uncheck or click the "Disable" button (depending on the version of the browser).
Next to this value is the “Delete” button. You should not click it, because when uninstalling visual bookmarks, you will need to download them again. And since this extension weighs very little and does not take up much memory on the hard drive, for this it is enough to disconnect this rather useful and convenient add-on from Yandex developers and surf the Internet further. Anyway, at any time it can be turned on and used again.
Conclusion
So, we found out all the features and nuances of installing the extension called "Visual Bookmarks from Yandex" for the most popular Internet browsers.