How to create visual bookmarks in internet explorer. Yandex elements for internet explorer

A functional new tab in any browser is a rather useful thing that allows you to quickly perform various operations, for example, open certain sites. For this reason, the Visual Bookmarks add-on, released by Yandex, is very popular among users of all browsers: Google Chrome, Internet Explorer , Mozilla Firefox and others. Is it possible to install visual tabs in Yandex.Browser, and how to do it?

If you have installed Yandex.Browser, then there is no need to set visual bookmarks separately, since they are already installed in the browser automatically. "Visual bookmarks" are part of Yandex.Elements, which we talked about in more detail. It is also impossible to install visual bookmarks from Yandex from the Google extension market - the browser will report that it does not support this extension.

You cannot disable or enable visual bookmarks yourself, and they are always available to the user when he opens a new tab by clicking on the corresponding icon in the tab bar:

The difference between visual bookmarks in Yandex.Browser and other browsers

The functionality of visual bookmarks built into Yandex and a separate extension installed in other browsers is absolutely identical. The difference lies only in some details of the interface - for their browser, the developers have made visual bookmarks somewhat more unique. Let's compare the visual bookmarks installed in Chrome:

And in Yandex.Browser:

The difference is small, and is this:

in other browsers, the top toolbar with the address bar, bookmarks, extension icons remains "native", and in Yandex.Browser it changes to the duration of the open new tab;
in Yandex.Browser, the address bar also plays the role of a search bar, thus it is not duplicated, as in other browsers;
such interface elements as weather, traffic jams, mail, etc. are absent in the visual tabs of Yandex.Browser and are included as needed by the user;
buttons "Closed tabs", "Downloads", "Bookmarks", "History", "Applications" in Yandex Browser and other browsers are located in different places;
settings for visual bookmarks in Yandex.Browser and other browsers are different;
in Yandex.Browser, all backgrounds are live (animated), while in other browsers they will be static.

How to set up visual bookmarks in Yandex.Browser

Visual bookmarks in Yandex.Browser are called "Scoreboard". Here you can add up to 18 widgets of your favorite sites with counters. Counters display the number of incoming emails in e-mail or social networks, which eliminates the need to manually update sites. You can add a bookmark by clicking on the " Add»:

You can change the widget by hovering over its upper right part - then 3 buttons will be displayed: blocking the location of the widget on the panel, settings, deleting the widget from the panel:

Unblocked visual bookmarks can be easily dragged if you click on them with the left mouse button, and without releasing it, drag the widget to the desired location.

Using the button " Enable sync”, you can synchronize Yandex.Browser of the current computer and other devices:

To open the manager of bookmarks that you have created in Yandex Browser, click on the " All bookmarks»:

Button " Customize screen"allows you to access the settings of all widgets, add a new visual bookmark", as well as change the background of the tab:

We already wrote more about how to change the background of visual bookmarks here:

Using visual bookmarks is a great way not only to quickly access the sites and browser features you need, but also a great way to spruce up your new tab page.

Any browser has the ability to bookmark your favorite site and return to it at any time without unnecessary searching. Comfortable enough. But over time, such bookmarks can accumulate quite a lot and it becomes difficult to find the desired web page. In this case, visual bookmarks can save the situation - small thumbnails of Internet pages placed in a specific place in the browser or control panel.

There are three ways to organize visual bookmarks in Internet Explorer (IE). Let's look at each of them.

For operating systems Windows 8, Windows 10, it is possible to save and render a web page as an application, and then place its shortcut on the Windows start screen. For this you need to follow the following steps.

Open Internet Explorer (using IE 11 as an example) and navigate to the site you want to pin
Click the icon in the upper right corner of the browser Service in the form of a gear (or the key combination Alt + X), and then select the item Add site to application list

In the window that opens, click the button Add

After that press the button Start and in the menu bar find the site you added earlier. Right click on it and select Pin to home screen

As a result, a bookmark to the desired web page will appear in the tiled quick access menu

Organization of visual bookmarks through Yandex elements

Visual bookmarks from Yandex is another way to organize work with your bookmarks. This method is quite fast, since you just need to download, install and configure Yandex elements. To do this, follow these steps.

Open an Internet Explorer web browser (using IE 11 as an example) and go to the site

Click the button Install
In the dialog box, click the button Run and then the button Install(you will need to enter the PC administrator password) in the application installation wizard dialog box

After the installation process is complete, restart your browser
Next, click on the button that appears at the bottom of the web browser

Click the button Enable all to activate visual bookmarks and Yandex elements, and after the button Ready

Organization of visual bookmarks through an online service

Visual bookmarks for IE can also be organized through various online services. The main advantage of this option for visualizing bookmarks is complete independence from the web browser. Among these services, one can note such sites as, as well as, with the help of which you can quickly and easily add visual bookmarks to the Internet Explorer browser, group them, change, delete, and the like for free.

It is worth noting that in order to use online services for organizing visual bookmarks, you will need to go through the registration procedure

Yandex elements are used not only in the browser of the same name: they are successfully embedded as add-ons in other browsers, even in the standard Internet Explorer, which is not very popular. If you still work with it, then the question arises of optimizing work with it. For example, you can and should download convenient visual bookmarks that are easy to customize.

Where can I download Yandex Elements for Internet Explorer? We will answer this question and also tell you how to configure them and remove them if necessary.

Features of Yandex Elements

This is a plug-in that expands the standard set of browser functions and makes working with it more comfortable and convenient. What exactly does it give?

Visual bookmarks with all kinds of settings. You yourself can determine the number of cells, the background of the start page and other things.
Smart string for the most efficient search.
Translation tools.
Synchronization.
Add-ons for music, weather forecast and more.

Yandex elements earlier (until 2012, in particular) had a different name: Yandex Bar.

Installation

You can download Yandex Elements directly on the official website of the company. It does not matter on which browser you will use them. They are installed as a separate program.

1.Open Internet Explorer and paste the following link into the address bar: https://element.yandex.ru/.

2.Click on the yellow "Install" button.

3. In a small window, left-click on the "Run" item.

4.The installer will open. Remove or leave checkboxes next to the items as you wish. Click on "Install" and write the computer's administrator password.

5. Click on "Finish" and restart the browser.

Please note that the plugin will only work if you have IE 7.0 or higher.

Setting

Now you can customize the extension for yourself. When you turn on Visual Bookmarks, a separate "Settings" button will appear on the start page. By clicking on it, the user will open a small window with several options: everything will be intuitively simple.

1. Run IE and click on the button at the bottom of the "Choose settings".

2.Select one or both of the items to activate. Visual Bookmarks are translated as "visual bookmarks".

3.Click on the "Finish" button.

4.Restart your browser.

Immediately after that, you will see the Yandex panel at the top of the window. Right-click on any of the icons - a context menu will appear with just one item "Configure".

5.Turn on all the options you need and click on OK.

Removal

Getting rid of the extension is very easy. Elements not in the browser settings are deleted. They come as programs, so you need to go to the "Programs and Features" window.

1.Run the Control Panel via Start and find the "Programs and Features" window.

2. In the list, look for "Yandex Elements". Right-click and select the first item "Delete". If after a while the item disappears, it will mean that the user has deleted the item.

Yandex Elements is very easy to handle. You can download them directly from the official website. With the help of them, you can optimize your work on the Internet, make it more convenient and faster.

Hello, dear readers of the blog site! The rapid development of information technology in general and the Internet in particular creates the prerequisites for the emergence of various useful features for users and webmasters. Yandex Bar, which is now renamed Yandex Elements, became such a popular addition from the Runet mirror.

One of the parts of the functionality of the former Bar were Visual bookmarks, which are now separated into a separate extension. In my opinion, this greatly enriches the choice, since now there is no need to install the entire panel of the same Elements, most of of the functionality of which may never come in handy if you can just download Visual Bookmarks in a separate line. Below we will look at how to install this add-on in . In addition, there is such an addition as .

How to download and install bookmarks from Yandex for Chrome, Mazila and Internet Explorer

For those who don't know, just in case, I'll say that Visual bookmarks is an add-on for browsers that allows you to navigate to the desired pages in one click. Quite a useful option, given the value of time in our fast-paced age. You can download this add-on for any of the above mentioned web browsers from this page owned by Yandex:

Keep in mind that the application will be downloaded exactly for the browser in which this download page is open, which, however, is quite natural. Some of you are probably wondering why the Opera web browser, which is also in the TOP of the best (especially in Runet), is not mentioned in this regard. The fact is that the initially built-in one is a complete analogue of Visual Bookmarks, so this extension is irrelevant for this browser.

Installing an extension for any browser - be it, (everything is even easier here - after downloading, you will immediately be prompted to install the OT as an extension) or - should not cause any difficulties. After downloading the launcher file, double-click on it and install the application in normal mode. At the beginning of the installation, there will be an offer to make Yandex the start page, set Yandex search by default and allow you to use data about your preferences when acting on the Internet. However, later all these options can be canceled.

The last point is considered by many to be almost spy monitoring. Well, one can understand such an opinion, since all this can be presented as a restriction on the privacy of an individual. I am calm about this, since the data is used in an anonymous form, and the information is collected for a reason, but to improve the relevance of the issuance. Moreover, the user is given a choice, besides, no one forbids to refuse this function in the future.

After that, click the "Next" button and install the tabs as a normal application. For example, after installing and restarting the browser, Google Chrome will notify you of the appearance of a new extension in the form of orange-colored stripes of the "Tools" icon in the right corner of the web browser window:

By clicking on the line announcing the presence of a newly installed application, you get to the "Extensions" section, where you can enable Visual Bookmarks for Google Chrome by ticking the "Enable" option:

In Mozilla Firefox, as I noted above, downloading and installing tabs from Yandex is even easier and faster, as a result, the presence of an extension can be checked by going along the path "Tools" → "Add-ons" → "Extensions", where you can disable or even delete Bookmarks from Yandex.

Bookmarks for Internet Explorer (latest versions) after a standard download and installation, you can manage (turn on and off) if you select from the "Service" section located in the top menu, or command line, the line "Customize add-ons" and in the section "Toolbars and extensions" mark the desired line. Then you can enable or disable the add-in by clicking on the appropriate button.

How to set up Visual Bookmarks for Chrome, Mozilla and Explorer

Well, now let's deal with the tab settings for all browsers. Having opened any browser and installed the extension from Yandex there, let's see what editing options are subject to us. Once activated, visual tabs will display the sites you visit most, whether in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Internet Explorer:

Of course, the generated site logos only appear if you open a blank page in the browser. If you move the cursor over one of the empty rectangles, a “+” icon will appear, which indicates the possibility of creating a new visual tab. The next time you click on the plus sign, a form will appear where you need to enter data that characterizes the future tab:

We write the site URL in the appropriate lines, taking the address from the list of the most visited resources and the name of the freshly baked tab. Subsequently, with the created visual bookmark, you can perform some manipulations, which I will discuss below.

Here you can change the number of visual tabs used on the page by moving the corresponding slider to the right or left (the maximum number is 25), change the background, including supplementing the set of background images by uploading your image (the "Upload" button). If you use the "Other options" button, you will be able, for example, to disable the collection of statistics of your preferences when using a web browser in favor of Yandex by unchecking the box. Remember, at the beginning of the article when installing the extension, I mentioned this?

Among other things, you can decide whether to display the search bar and bookmarks bar. And finally, when the cursor approaches an existing picture, a panel will appear, consisting of three icons:

The “Customize” gear icon allows you to insert another one from the list of other bookmarks below in place of the existing tab, or by inserting the URL and description of the site corresponding to the specified address, just as I described above inserting a tab into an empty space. An icon in the form of a "Pin" button indicates an action after which this place will be assigned to the logo of this site. Well, the purpose of the “Delete” symbol, I think, is unnecessary to explain. At the end of a small 4D show:

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. The Yandex bar, about which I once wrote in some detail, has ceased to exist. It had quite a few useful options and it had a right to exist. But not everything is so sad, in fact, a simple thing happened.

The panel has become more compact, lighter and less intrusive, but the essence remains the same, especially since the bar can be easily updated with elements. A similar situation with renaming occurs with other giants of the Internet, for example, the free mail service that has earned a not very good reputation.

Personally, I liked the bar most of all for such an option as visual bookmarks, which Yandex added to Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer for easy navigation through the resources you most visit. By the way, I recently found a worthy alternative - which is superior in many ways to the brainchild of Yandex.

On the way to the cherished goal, they will try to intercept you and persuade you to, but you are persistent and do not succumb to provocation, although I really liked him in his current incarnation.

Set visual bookmarks will be no more difficult than any other window application. The only thing is that at the first step of the installation wizard you will be asked (which is nice) to disable all additional stray, namely the default search, and, which is especially nice, you can disable the spy module that collects data for the Runet mirror about which sites we like and what not:

It is clear that search engine they need this data to build more relevant SERPs, but not everyone likes to be spied on, even if with good intentions. Next, the installer program will reconfigure your browser and it will start with a new (blank) page open:

The screenshot shows appearance pages from Yandex bookmarks for Google Chrome and I like them the most, because they practically duplicate the Express panel of Opera, which I am very used to.

When you move the mouse cursor over an empty rectangle, a “+” sign will appear on it, clicking on which you will be able to create a new tab based on pages previously opened in the browser, or simply by entering the desired URL and the name of the future bookmark in the appropriate fields:

Then it can be freely dragged with the mouse to any convenient place, which makes it easy to sort the sites you need in the sequence you need. In addition, when you move the mouse cursor over any of the created tabs in its upper part, you will see a control panel with four buttons:

Using them, you can delete the bookmark, update the screenshot of the site, change something in the settings (assign a different URL, change the name or set a different screenshot update period), and also hide it. I did not understand the last option for what it can be used, because in place of the hidden tab there is still a hole, moving the cursor to which it will appear.

At the bottom of the page with visual Yandex tabs in Google Chrome is the "Settings" button, which will allow you to change the appearance of the panel to suit your preferences (change the possible number of rectangles, add a background, and set the screenshot update period).

Visual tabs for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer

For Mozilla Firefox and Internet explorer they look the same and you can download them all from the same link:

But, in my opinion, the new version of Firefox bookmarks from Yandex is significantly inferior in terms of convenience to the tabs for Google Chrome described above. This case looks somehow more clumsy and stupid, despite the fact that the old version for Firefox did not have such shortcomings (the best is the enemy of the good). Although, the taste and color ... Moreover, with old bookmarks.

The image of the tab is now not a screenshot of the site being laid down, but some of its logo, which most often consists of itself and the name taken from this very site. The color scheme of the tabs is also selected based on the shades available on the site:

The new version of visual bookmarks for Mazila Firefox is proudly numbered 2.5 and allows you not only to manually add new sites, but also inserts your most frequently visited resources into the panel itself. Is it convenient? Personally, I don't, but you might like it. The plus is that immediately after installing the tabs in Firefox and IE, you will see the Yandex panel filled with the sites you most frequently visited before.

When you move the mouse cursor over any of them, you can pin it using the corresponding icon. Why is this needed? Well, so that when more popular resources invade, this particular tab would remain in place:

The button in the form of a gear is used to change the site to which this tab will lead:

AT new version express panels for Mazila and Donkey, I did not understand how they can be moved and sorted. Drag and drop does not solve this problem. To add new tabs to the sites you need, just click on the "Settings" button in the lower right corner.

As a result, a window will open where you can set the number of bookmarks in the panel and change the background image. If you click on the "Advanced options" button, you can also disable the spy module by unchecking the corresponding checkbox.

But anyway, the new versions of visual bookmarks for Mazila and IE left a purely negative impression (maybe I didn’t understand something and didn’t like it), so I don’t use them yet, but the version of Yandex tabs for Google Chrome, on the contrary, makes me only positive emotions. Probably different developers worked on them. If you want to return the former, then use the link above to version 1.5).

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