Visual bookmarks do not open in Chrome. In standard visual bookmarks

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 your favorite extension or use a 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 easy: 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.

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, in 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, and 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 a small setup wizard 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 the empty space 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 operating speed, and 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 Delicious social bookmarking service.

The simplest bookmarks from Mail.ru

Compared to bookmarks from Yandex, these are the simplest.

The principle of operation is exactly the same, only there are no settings, and only nine (3x3) bookmarks are available.

Everything is added and removed in the same way.

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.

Google Chrome is without a doubt the favorite Internet browser of many users. Convenient interface with a minimum number of buttons, the ability to set the start page and many other settings. However, in this browser, unlike Yandex and Opera, there is no such built-in tool as visual bookmarks.

What are they, what are they for, and how to configure them in Chrome. We will talk about all this today.

Visual bookmarks allow the user to quickly access their favorite sites. They open in a separate browser page, which shows miniatures of selected sites and their names.

In Google Chrome, when you open a new tab, under the search bar there are 8 tiles into which frequently used sites are added. If you are not satisfied with this option, and you want to customize this panel yourself, then using the Chrome store, you can install a suitable add-on.

How to install an extension for visual bookmarks in Google Chrome

You can download the add-on for them either on the add-on developer’s website, or install it from the Chrome online store. We will consider the second option.

Open the browser and click on the button in the form of three horizontal lines in the upper right corner. From the drop-down list, select “Additional tools”, then click on “Extensions”.

Here you will see a list of all those installed in the browser on this moment. Scroll down and click More Extensions.

The Chrome Web Store will open. Type “visual bookmarks” into the search bar, press “Enter” and select the “Extensions” category from the results.

From the list provided, select the add-on that suits you and click on it. As an example, let's install Yandex visual bookmarks for Google Chrome. Check out more detailed information about it and click on the “Install” button.

Confirm the installation by clicking on the appropriate button.

After it is successfully installed in the browser, an icon of the installed extension will appear to the right of the address bar.

In the same way, you can install any other add-on for visual bookmarks in the Google Chrome browser.

Visual bookmarks Yandex

If you want to use similar ones in Chrome from Yandex, you need to install the appropriate extension in your browser. We discussed in detail how to do this in the paragraph above.

After installing them, open a new tab in Chrome. Here you will see the Yandex search bar, and below it, the panel we need.

At the bottom there are additional buttons, using which you can open a window with downloads, view bookmarks or history. You can also add a new bookmark or go to settings.

If you want to add the desired site to this panel, click on the “Add bookmark” button.

To customize which tiles are displayed, click Settings. Here you can increase the number of tiles on the panel and change the background. To see more settings, click More Options.

The presented thumbnails can be swapped by dragging them with the mouse. By hovering the cursor over any of them, additional buttons will appear. Using them, you can pin the miniature to the panel, go to settings (if you need to change the address or description) or delete it.

Atavi is another popular add-on for visual bookmarks in the Google Chrome browser. To install Atavi, follow all the steps described in the first paragraph.

In the Chrome Web Store, find “Atavi – bookmark manager” in the list and click the “Install” button opposite.

Confirm installation.

To open the Atavi panel, click on the extension icon located to the right of the search bar. By clicking on the “Make start” button, the bookmarks panel will appear immediately when you start the browser. If you want, in Chrome settings, make sure that when you open a new tab, this panel is also shown.

You can add a new site here by clicking on the plus sign in the upper right corner or on the empty miniature with a plus sign.

After that, enter the address and name of the site, select a group for it and click “Add”.

All are shown below existing groups. Using them, you can divide bookmarks according to a specific topic. By clicking on the gear icon, you can create new group or edit an existing one.

Over the years, web browsers have constantly evolved. Therefore, today it is extremely difficult to cope with large amounts of data without proper tools to organize your favorite web pages.

Visual bookmarks are bookmarks with thumbnails of the web page they point to. These extensions allow you to capture a portion of a web page as an image and then add labels/tags to create a visual bookmark. You can then view them in a gallery, which can be organized by keywords.

One of the most popular extensions for visually storing and synchronizing your bookmarks. In addition to the search bar, all frequently visited sites on home page present:

weather information;
exchange rates;
information about traffic jams in the area;
links to closed tabs, downloads, other bookmarks and browsing history.

Step 1. Find it in Google's online extension store. Click on the “+ Install” button. Confirm your intention to install the extension in the browser dialog that appears.

Step 2. The extension will be automatically installed, and now, instead of the usual start window, you will see a new one - along with all the bookmarks. You can customize them as you wish. To delete a bookmark, hover over it until a cross appears in the upper right corner. Click on it and the bookmark will disappear. To add a new bookmark, click on “Add Bookmark” and follow the recommendations that you will see on the screen.

To add a new bookmark, click on “Add Bookmark”

Step 3. Setting up the home page. To make changes, click on the “Settings” button.

Step 4. A panel with settings will open on the left. You can change the page background by choosing one of the suggested options, or uploading your own. It is also possible to increase the number of visual bookmarks to 25, and change their appearance.

The best managers for organizing bookmarks

On a note! In addition to visualization extensions, there are more advanced means of organizing bookmarks. Organizers that go beyond browser extensions offer users effective method bookmark processing.

There are a lot of them, this article will discuss 7 unique tools that allow you to visualize them in an organized manner.

Name	Main characteristics	Supported Platforms
	Saving bookmarks via web browser extension, mobile applications, email, desktop application, access and manage bookmarks via web interface and much more	Web interface, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox extension, Android/iOS/BlackBerry/ mobile applications Windows Phone, desktop Windows applications and Mac OS X
	Easily sync between Windows and Apple based bookmarks, sync Mozilla Firefox/Google Chrome/Internet Explorer with Safari bookmarks	Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome Extensions, Internet Explorer
	Synchronization between all major web browsers, import from Delicious, export/restore bookmarks, password synchronization and much more	Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari web browser extensions, web interface; iPhone/Android/BlackBerry/Windows Phone Apps (Xmarks Premium only)
	Easily save links, share them on Facebook and Twitter, follow different users, discover new trending topics and much more	Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and web interface
Diigo	Annotating bookmarks, screenshots, various mobile applications and browser extensions, sending links via e-mail, import/export bookmarks	Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer browser extensions; Android, iOS and Mac
	All bookmarks are completely saved in the cloud	Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, web interface for accessing saved bookmarks
	Powerful search engine, beautiful organization, editing, viewing or deleting bookmarks	Google Chrome Web Bookmark Manager

Pocket

By far the most comprehensive tool for managing your bookmarks, no matter what device you use. Pocket Bookmarks are available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. When you click the "Tick" Pocket icon in your browser, the link will be automatically saved to your profile. You can also add tags to individual links to make them easier to find later.

Step 1. Find this extension in the Google Chrome store.

Step 2. Along with this, register on the official website of this extension. This is necessary to store and sync your bookmarks between all connected devices.

Step 3. As soon as the extension is installed, the corresponding icon will appear in the extensions bar. In order to save a bookmark, you only need to click on this button and the page will be saved automatically.

Apple's iCloud Bookmarks is a tool that allows users to seamlessly switch between all Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It also allows Apple users to seamlessly sync saved bookmarks across all registered devices. With the iCloud Bookmarkss extension, your saved bookmarks will be seamlessly integrated across all your registered Apple devices.

As in the previous case, you will need to install the extension in your browser. You can find it in the extension store.

Xmarks is a reliable tool for syncing bookmarks across different web browsers

Xmarks is a reliable tool for syncing your bookmarks across different web browsers. Supports Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari; Xmarks offers full bookmark synchronization across all of these web browsers.

Step 1. Install the appropriate web browser extension.

Step 2. Register on the official website. Click the "Xmarks" icon on your taskbar to sync all your passwords and bookmarks with account Xmarks and all other browsers used.

Delicious is more than just a bookmark manager. You can also subscribe to different topics and groups to receive updates related to this area. Based on your interests, you can also browse the Top Trending topics in your chosen area of interest.

Step 1. Install the extension from the extension store.

Step 2. Once the extension is installed, you will see its icon in the extensions panel. By clicking on it for the first time, you can register to store bookmarks online. Once you're logged in, this button will bookmark the page you're on.

Dewey Bookmarks

Dewey Bookmarks is an extension for Google Chrome that helps you better organize and manage your bookmarks

Dewey Bookmarks is an extension for Google Chrome that helps you better organize and manage your bookmarks. The extension collects all your Google Chrome bookmarks and includes them in a strikingly beautiful card layout on the web. You can add “tags” to your bookmarks to make them easier to access at a later point in time.

Step 1. Install the extension from the online store.

Now every time you click on this button, all your bookmarks will appear on your screen, with large pictures.

Video - How to make visual tabs in Google Chrome

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. The Yandex bar, which I once wrote about in some detail, has ceased to exist. It had quite a few useful options and it had every right to exist. But not everything is so sad, in fact, something simple 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 Internet giants, for example, which did not deserve much good reputation free mail service.

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 in many ways superior to the brainchild of Yandex.

On the way to your cherished goal, they will try to intercept you and persuade you to do so, but you are persistent and will 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 gadgets, namely the default search, and, what’s especially nice, you can disable the spy module, which collects data for the RuNet mirror about which sites we need What do you like and what don't:

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

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

When you move the mouse cursor to 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 you can freely drag it with the mouse to any comfortable spot, which easily allows you to sort the sites you need in the sequence you need. In addition, when you move the mouse cursor to any of the created tabs at the top of it, you will see a control panel with four buttons:

Using them, you can delete a bookmark, update the screenshot of the bookmarked 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 didn’t understand what the last option could be used for, because in the place of the hidden tab there still remains a hole, and if you move the cursor to it, it will appear.

At the bottom of the page with Yandex visual tabs in Google Chrome there is a “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 refresh period for screenshots).

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 convenience to the tabs for Google Chrome described just above. This matter looks somehow more clumsy and stupid, despite the fact that old version for Firefox it 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, but some of its logo, which most often represents 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 bears the proud number 2.5 and allows you not only to manually add new sites, but also inserts your most frequently visited resources into the panel. Is it convenient? Personally, I don't, but maybe you'll like it. The advantage is that immediately after installing 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 necessary? Well, so that when more popular resources invade, this particular tab would remain in place:

The gear-shaped button is used to change the site to which this tab will lead:

IN new version express panels for Mazila and Donkey, I did not understand how they can be moved and sorted. Dragging with the mouse 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 settings” button, you can also disable the spyware module by unchecking the corresponding box.

But all the same, the new versions of visual bookmarks for Mazila and IE left a purely negative impression (perhaps I didn’t understand or get into something), so I don’t use them yet, but the version of Yandex tabs for Google Chrome, on the contrary, makes me sad only positive emotions. Probably different developers worked on them. If you want to return to the past, then use the link given just above to version 1.5).

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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 a simple example: graphic editor Polarr.

Advice!Installing Google Chrome extensionsoccurs using the Chrome Web Store. To open it, you need to press the Chrome main menu button (the button with three stripes, which is located to the right of the address bar).

In the tab that opens, you need the “Extensions” item, in which there will be a link “More extensions”. Clicking on it opens the online store directly.

The store page contains a feed of the latest and most popular applications. On the left side there is an expanded search menu.

Search Google Chrome by content title.
Selecting the content type.
Select a content category (developer tools, games, utility applications, etc.).
Filter by capabilities and application sources.
Filter by content rating.

In the search query line, you must enter the name of the application you are interested in, set up filters and press “Enter”.

Search results will appear in the central part of the page. In it you need to select the desired result. By clicking, a message will open in which you need to click “Add”. The add-on added in this way can be found in the browser toolbar.

To call it, all you have to do is open the toolbar (the button with nine squares in a new tab) and click on the thumbnail installed application. If desired, you can make the page with additional services home in the browser settings.

Creating bookmarks

Everyone who uses the Internet certainly has several pages that need quick access. It is to fulfill these needs that the browser provides the ability to create page bookmarks.

To remember a specific page, you need to open the desired page and click on the menu button located to the right of the address bar. In the drop-down list, you will need to hover over the “Bookmarks” line.

In the second level of the list you need to click on the item “Add page to bookmarks...”. The Ctrl+D key combination is also used for the same purposes.

A form will appear below the address bar informing you 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 Web 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.