Setting up chrome express panel. How to make an express panel in Google Chrome? Express panel from Yandex

In the era of web technology and the Internet, everyone has access to an amazing amount of content, information and entertainment. Using the Google Chrome bookmarking system, you can organize your favorite sites and get quick access to each of them at any time. The so-called visual bookmarks of Google Chrome are especially loved by users. They are miniature pictures of website pages with a hyperlink that redirects you to the desired resource. This article provides a guide on how to make and configure an express panel in Google Chrome.

Unfortunately, unlike many competitors, Google still has no plans to implement its own express panel. Therefore, the standard Chrome interface does not provide any visual tabs. However, the modular design of modern browsers makes it easy to connect the necessary functions in the form of compact add-ons - plugins. The network offers a huge variety of extensions that allow you to create an express panel for every taste: applications from Yandex, from Mail.ru, original three-dimensional SpeedDial and many other products. Most of them can be downloaded from the Google Store.

Connecting plugins

Any express panel is installed on Google Chrome in the same way as other extensions. Let's look at the process using the example of a product from Yandex:

Thus, you have connected a new express panel in Google Chrome. Other interfaces connect to Chrome in a similar way.

Bookmarks from Yandex

When the express panel from Yandex is installed on Chrome, you need to configure it and make it as convenient as possible:

Using the left mouse button, you can “drag” pictures from place to place, arranging them in an order convenient for you. To open the bookmark management menu, you just need to hover the cursor over it. You can secure an object from accidental dragging, delete it, or call up settings. In them you can edit the address of the resource to which the hyperlink leads, and the image.

To add a new element, right-click anywhere in the Chrome window and bring up the drop-down menu. In it, select “Add to express panel” - and the bookmark will be created. Another way is to delete one of the existing ones and click on the “Plus” sign that appears in the free space. Fill in the hyperlink address and name fields and create a new object.

Visual bookmarks are a convenient way to use the Internet. These are images of thumbnails of pages of sites added to bookmarks. Using visual bookmarks in Google Chrome, you can easily and quickly go to the desired site: just click on the corresponding thumbnail, and you do not need to enter the address in the browser address bar. If simple bookmarks are placed on the bookmarks bar, then the express bar or visual bookmarks bar can be configured so that they appear on the browser page when you open a new tab.

Without installing visual bookmarks, the Google Chrome browser has an express panel, which consists of miniature images of the sites you visit most often. But on such a panel it is impossible to pin the necessary sites on a permanent basis.

To set visual bookmarks in Google Chrome, click on the “Settings” icon, which is located in the upper right corner.

Then on the left go to the “Extensions” tab.

If you have previously installed any extensions, scroll down and select "More extensions", if there is nothing in the window, click “Would you like to view the gallery?”.

The Chrome Store opens. Enter the query in the search bar "Visual bookmarks" and press “Enter”.

In the list we find the section “Extensions”, select the visual bookmarks you like and click “Install”.

After the installation is complete, you need to click on the icon of the installed extension, which is located in the upper right corner.

This completes the installation of visual bookmarks. Now open a new tab, which already has visual bookmarks selected by default. Adding a new bookmark is easy: either using the “+” or using the small icon at the top right.

After clicking on “+” a window appears in which you need to enter the address and name of the site. Then click “Add” and a miniature of the desired site appears in the window.

If you find an interesting page on the Internet and want to add it to your visual bookmarks, just click on the small icon at the top right. A page with visual bookmarks will immediately open, select the empty box with “+” and click on it, now the page has been added to visual bookmarks.

Managing bookmarks is easy: you can add, delete, change, drag and drop them. When you hover your mouse over a bookmark, icons appear on the right: settings and deletions.

In the settings tab "Basic data" You can change the site that will be in this box, change the description of the site. On the tab "Image Settings" You can upload another image for the visual bookmark thumbnail. Tab "Delete bookmark" will allow you to delete a bookmark. To save changes, return to the tab "Basic data" and click the “Save” button.

There is a search bar at the top; using the “Change Search” button you can change the search resource.

You can access settings by clicking on the gear icon to the left of the search bar.

On the tab "General settings" you can select the number of bookmarks horizontally and vertically, change the number of desktops. Below you can check the box to use custom search and open the bookmark in a new tab.

On the tab "Basic design" By dragging the circle on the color palette you can change the background, the sliders allow you to change the brightness and radius of the bookmarks.

On the tab "Custom background" You can select an image as a background from those offered, or upload it from your computer or via a link. To return to visual bookmarks, click the “Return” button.

It's that easy install and configure visual bookmarks for Google Chrome– simply by selecting and installing the extension you like.

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Knows about the so-called browser war. Behind the scary name lies the usual competition between programs for viewing Internet pages from different developers. In 2008, the list of participants was replenished with a software solution called Chrome (perhaps due to the fact that the engine itself is called Chromium).

Since then, a new round of confrontation began. Moreover, Google Chrome is becoming more and more popular every year. The main reason for this is obvious - the browser developer is a large company known for its search engine. Consequently, webmasters, not wanting to experience any difficulties with their sites, optimize projects specifically for Google Chrome.

Disadvantage or advantage

The above-mentioned browser is often criticized for its excessive minimalism: it cannot save pages in mht or chm; there is no list of visited addresses; And there’s no point in looking for the express panel in Google Chrome, since it’s not there by default. This deficiency can be partially filled with the help of third-party extensions. Thus, the express panel for Google Chrome can be installed in just a couple of clicks.

Fast access

One of the very convenient features of many browsers is a panel for quickly opening favorite pages. According to statistics, any user views only a few resources per session. Obviously, it is much more convenient not to type addresses manually, but to click on the necessary icons, similar to desktop shortcuts.

Such a solution exists and is called “Speed Dial”, “Quick Launch” or “Express Panel”. It can be built-in, like in Opera, and implemented using an add-on. The Express panel for Google Chrome needs to be specially installed. Although there are assemblies where it is already enabled.

It is worth noting that the Express panel for Google Chrome is not mandatory, since it creates shortcuts for recently visited sites. To activate this function, you need to go to settings (upper right corner) and specify the quick access page in the initial group list. Similar to Google Chrome is an excellent solution for those who rarely change the list of sites they visit. On the main window you need to click the “Sites” button. Work with resources is performed automatically, that is, adding anything manually will not work.

How to make an express panel in Google Chrome

To install a full-fledged panel, open it (the button in the upper right corner) and follow the path “Tools - More extensions”. The Chrome store will open, but you don't need to buy anything here - everything is free.

There is a search bar on the left; in it you need to type “Speed Dial” and press “Enter”. A list of found extensions will appear on the right. Each of them is signed, and the number of stars indicates popularity, so there should not be any difficulties with choosing. One of the best solutions is the Speed Dial from FVD, as it uses some of the functions of a 3D accelerator for display.

By clicking “Login and add”, you need to specify your login and password for mail on the Google server. This innovation increases the level of protection against extension counterfeiting. Now all that remains is to specify the Speed Dial as the main page. In order for the desired site to be included in the list, you should right-click on the page, select FVD Speed Dial and the “Add...” command.

Google Chrome is a cool browser. Convenient, fast, secure. And most importantly: it’s easy to customize. And if you don’t like something, you can easily change it. For example, set visual bookmarks. Like in Yandex Browser or Opera. But at the same time – with flexible settings. As a result, you will have all your favorite sites before your eyes, and you will easily find the one you need (even if there are 20 or more of them).

The most popular option for Chrome is Yandex visual bookmarks

The main advantages of this extension:

Ability to add up to 25 bookmarks.
Flexible setup. You can change the appearance of bookmarks, background, show/hide the search bar, Zen feed, etc.
Data backup. Saving all quick links in 1 click in case of browser reinstallation.

How to install it? First, you need to download visual bookmarks for Google Chrome. For this:

In my case, Google Chrome for some reason did not find the extension from Yandex, so I had to look for it through a search engine. If you have the same situation, then to save time, immediately follow this link and click the “Install” button.

Then open a new tab. You should have something like the following picture:

Pretty cute, right? And if you don’t like something, you can always customize visual bookmarks to suit you. To do this, click on the “Settings” line.

A small window will appear on the right where you can select:

number of bookmarks (from 1 to 25);
their appearance;
background of visual bookmarks (you can set any image, check the “Change every day” checkbox or click the “Upload background” button and select your picture).

Here you can display or hide the search bar, bookmarks bar, information panel (weather and dollar exchange rate), as well as the Zen feed. And at the bottom of this window there are 2 buttons for backup (export and import).

By default, the sites that you need may not be displayed here. To remove an extra one, hover your mouse cursor over it and click on the cross.

If you want to edit the site address or its name, click on the gear icon, and then on the “Edit Description” button (changes are saved by pressing the Enter key).

You can also click on the “Add Bookmark” line and enter the URL of any site.

Now visual bookmarks in Google Chrome will look completely different - the way you wanted.

By the way, pay attention - there are 4 quick links on the left:

closed tabs;
downloads;
bookmarks;
story.

You can also use them, since it’s convenient (you don’t need to go into the settings every time to open your download or visit history).

Another extension of visual bookmarks - from Meil.ru

Compared to the option from Yandex, it (link) is quite simple, since there are no settings here. But perhaps you just need something simple.

In total, you can add 9 sites here. To do this, simply click on the plus sign and select the desired page or enter its URL.

There is also an “Applications” tab, which displays quick links to Google Drive, Youtube, Gmail and other services.

Speed Dial 2

And the third extension of visual bookmarks for Google Chrome is Speed Dial 2. This is probably the most powerful and flexible tool for customizing a page for yourself. New sites can be added easily by clicking on the plus sign.

After this, a window will appear where you can add popular sites (like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter) or your own. In this case, for each bookmark you can add your own picture by specifying its URL or uploading a file from your computer.

As for the settings, there are simply a huge number of them. This is what the general settings look like, where you can specify the number of columns, their width and spacing.

Below are the “Themes” buttons (for choosing a background) and “Advanced options”, where you can change the visual bookmarks to your taste.

Initially, all sites are displayed without a picture (thumbnail), but this is easy to fix. Right-click on any of them and select “Reload Sketch”.

How to delete bookmarks?

If you don’t need some extension or Google Chrome has become glitchy and slow, you can delete visual bookmarks. To do this, go to “Extensions”, find the one you need and uncheck the “Enabled” box. Or click on the trash icon if you will no longer use it at all.

Instead of a conclusion

Personally, I like the visual bookmarks from Yandex most of all: simple, stylish, 25 bookmarks are more than enough, and Google Chrome works great. What more do you need, right?

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 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. During a hard day at work, several interesting links have accumulated 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 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.”

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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 the appearance or switch to a 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 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.