How to set up express panel in mozilla firefox. How Useful is the Firefox Express Panel

Mozilla Firefox is a flexible browser-builder that can be supplemented with various functionality using built-in extensions. Among such functionality are express panels visual bookmarks for quick and easy access to selected user sites.

Mozilla Firefox is pre-installed with quite powerful functionality for working with regular bookmarks, including the ability to quickly add favorite sites to the browser collection, sort bookmarks into thematic folders, as well as export, import and create them. backups. But the pre-installed visual bookmarks that open in a new browser tab leave much to be desired - the number of cells for selected sites is limited, and adding new thumbnails is possible only after removing old ones from free cells. At the same time, free cells are filled only by automatically adjusting new sites in them from the browser history.

Let's look at the Fire Fox in the extension store for more effective and practical express panels of visual bookmarks. Let's consider the best of them.

5 Best Visual Bookmarking Speed ​​Dials for Mozilla Firefox Browser

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The Top-Page extension is a cross-platform solution that will certainly interest those who constantly change browsers or computer devices.

The Top-Page.Ru web service offers a completely free service for storing user bookmarks in the online organization of the express panel of site thumbnails.

Once you set up the express panel and organize your favorite sites on it, visual bookmarks can be instantly accessed from any browser window, on any device - be it a computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. To do this, you just need to first register in the Top-Page.Ru web service, and then log in.

The Top-Page visual bookmarks express panel is not the best design masterpiece, far from the most advanced functional product, however, there is the ability to change the background image and adjust the number of thumbnails of favorite sites in width.

To add a site to the Top-Page visual bookmarks, click on an empty cell with a plus sign and enter the web address. If you are too lazy to enter a name, you do not need to do this. The name will be generated automatically.

Another cross-platform option for organizing an express panel of visual bookmarks in the Mozilla Firefox browser is Atavi Bookmarks from the free web service Atavi.Com.

But these bookmarks, unlike all other express panels presented in this review, not installed from the store Mozilla extensions Firefox, but from the Yandex Elements website.

Fast Dial is a custom extension for Mozilla Firefox.

In its settings, the number of displayed cells of visual bookmarks on the page can be adjusted by setting any numerical value in width and length. The size of the bookmark cells themselves is also configurable.

In Fast Dial settings

you can set your own background image for the express panel of visual bookmarks. You can also choose the design of the cells, the font of the inscriptions and other subtleties of design.

To add a new visual bookmark, click on an empty cell and enter the web address of your favorite site. You can choose your own logo for each visual bookmark, as well as assign hotkeys for quick access.

Fast Dial is one of the most beautiful visual bookmarking speed dials in the Mozilla Firefox extension store.

But, at the same time, it is somewhat inferior to the next participant in the review - the express panel of visual bookmarks FVD Speed ​​Dial.

FVD Speed ​​Dial is perhaps the most beautiful, most spectacular, most functional, most customizable visual bookmarking express panel for Mozilla Firefox.

But, at the same time, it is also the heaviest.

The effects and functionality of the extension may slow down the browser on weak computer devices. Alas, there is always something to sacrifice.

FVD Speed ​​Dial contains a lot of settings, thanks to which the design and organization of the express panel can be fine-tuned to your taste - choose a beautiful background image, customize the font of the inscriptions, set the transparency of the buttons, specify the size of the cells, etc.

FVD Speed ​​Dial allows you to organize visual bookmarks into thematic groups, thereby preventing the express panel from being cluttered with bookmarks. At the same time, a group of popular bookmarks from among regularly visited sites is formed automatically. Switching between groups is very convenient, their links are neatly lined up at the top of the express panel.

To add a new visual bookmark, we traditionally click on an empty cell with a plus sign on the express panel, enter the web address of the site, we can assign a group, title and picture from among those offered for the bookmark.

Despite the fact that FVD Speed ​​Dial is far from a Mozilla Firefox speed dial, the advantages of this visual bookmarking express panel are obvious - beauty will save the world.

Users of low-powered netbooks and old PC builds can, for example, ditch the bulky background image, leaving the preset background of the Express Dial white so as not to burden the browser.

You do not know how to set up an express panel in Mozilla? Think it's very difficult? In fact, everything is simple, just use the detailed instructions.

The main advantage of the express panel is that you do not need to enter the address of a frequently visited site each time. It is enough to save it once - and you can enter the site with one click of the mouse. If you do not know how to install such a panel in the Mozilla browser, read this article.

Express panel installation

Unlike the Opera, in Mazil this panel not provided by default. You will need to install a special browser add-on. It is not difficult to do this, besides, the extension is free. And to download it, you do not need to search for anything on the Internet, this is done through an Internet browser. To install an extension, do the following:

• Open the browser, you will see the browser start page menu;
• Go to the "Tools" section (it is located at the top left);
• Next, click "Add-ons";
• Then click on the line "Get add-ons";
• A window will appear with a search form, where you need to enter "Speed ​​Dial", then press "Enter";
• From the proposed list, select the desired option;
• You will see the "Install" button, click on it;
• When the download is complete, a message will appear: "The program will be installed after restarting the browser." Click "restart now";
• When the browser restarts, a page with available extensions will open. The Speed ​​Dial program will no longer be there. Click on the "Extensions" button;
• Click "Tools", then select "Settings";
• Then go to the "Basic" item;
• In the "At startup" line, select "Show a blank page", then "OK";
• Close the tab and then the browser;
• Start the browser again;
• Now you will see that the express panel has appeared on the start page. It contains empty cells that can be filled with frequently opened sites.

Filling out the express panel

To do this, follow these steps:

• Go to a frequently visited site;
• Place the cursor in the address bar and click on it once with the left mouse button. The address will turn blue;
• On the toolbar, select "Edit" and click "Copy";
• Then open new tab, the express panel will appear;
• Right-click on it and select "Edit";
• Click the mouse in the "Address" field, right-click there and click "Paste";
• Check the box next to "Create thumbnail from ...";
• And uncheck the box "Dynamic";
• In the "Title" line, name the link as you like, and click "OK".

Now you will see that a thumbnail has appeared in the Express Panel in one of the cells. If you click on it, the page will go to the site.

If you need to delete an image in the mozilla, click on it right click mouse and select "Clear". If you need to change the address of the link or change its name, select "Edit".

Turning on the toolbar

If you work in Mozilla, you may also need to activate the toolbar. To perform this operation, do the following:

If you do not see the program windows when starting the browser, then full screen mode is activated. To exit it, click on the function key "F11". You can also do it differently:

In general, almost all panels appear at the top of the browser, but not all. The add-ons panel is located at the bottom.

• Move the cursor to the top of the window and leave it in that position for a while - a panel should appear;
• Click on it and click on the item "Exit full screen mode";
• If the window does not disappear, and there are only Internet address tabs on the screen, move the mouse cursor to the part of the panel where there are no tabs and right-click on it. In the menu that opens, select the panels that you want to display in the browser.

Yandex.Bar button

Separately, it is worth mentioning the Yandex.Bar extension in the muzzle. With it, you can customize the browser window according to your needs. If the application is downloaded and installed, you can enable the activation of its button on the panel in the same way as described above. If the extension is installed but you don't see the button, do the following:

• In the "Tools" section, select "Add-ons", a tab will open;
• On it, open the "Extensions" menu and find the line "Yandex.Bar";
• Click "Enable";
• Restart your browser.

Now the Yandex.Bar button will appear on the panel.

You can then customize the "Bar" panel

Click "Open". In the new dialog box, you can select the buttons you wish to add. These buttons are located on the left. And on the right are the functions that have already been added to the toolbar.

The modern browser offers a lot of possibilities for convenient operation. If you have just installed a web browser, see what features are available in it. Open the menu in Mozilla, study the functions, choose what you need, what you can do. Sometimes users do not even know that some actions (which take them a long time) can take a couple of seconds to complete (sometimes you just need to click the mouse button). IN default settings often not very useful features, many of them are activated additionally.

Zooming in Mozilla

If you are setting up the express panel in this browser, then you may need to adjust the scale. The fact is that in this browser there is no window that would be responsible for the scale. If you are not satisfied with the size of the displayed page, follow these steps:

• Open the "View" section on the control panel;
• Go to the "Scale" tab;
• From the list that opens, you can choose in which direction to change the scale. Press CTRL+ to zoom in, CTRL- to zoom out. There is also a keyboard shortcut "CTRL + 0" - to set the scale to the original parameters.

By setting up the express panel in Mazil, and placing the necessary buttons on the toolbar, you optimize the process of using the browser and make it as productive as possible for yourself.

Even the most experienced web surfers sometimes admit that Firefox's Speed ​​Dial helps them a lot. In other words, this functional invention is not a sign of amateurism, a kind of lifesaver for timid novice users, but is powerful tool for quick access to your favorite sites. One click on the icon and you're done. Here you have VKontakte, and Odnoklassniki and other web sympathies. And you don’t need to rummage through bookmarks, and, what’s worse, you don’t need to type the full address of sites in address bar Mozilla Firefox. Yes, and more quick launch in Mozilla saves the user's precious time. Let it be minutes, but still it is better to spend it on getting acquainted with the mail, viewing photos from friends on the pages and other online needs and interests.

This article will give you good advice - how to set up the express panel in Firefox exclusively by regular means and with the help of addons.

Let's get started. About everything in order. By the way, if you are only taking the first steps in mastering the browser and Internet technologies in general, then this status of yours in familiarizing yourself with this material is not a hindrance.

Default panel

The developers of the epic Ognelis, of course, are aware of all the interface power of the express panel with visual bookmarks. And so they integrated it into the distribution, so to speak, by default. After installing FF, it automatically appears in empty tabs.

The blocks already contain links to popular resources on the Web: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. During use, the sites frequently visited by the user are displayed here. You can further customize them if you wish. This operation is performed like this:

1. Move the cursor over the visual bookmark block. Click the “…” button that appears in the upper right corner.

2. In the menu that opens, select the required command:

• "Attach" - fix the link, in order to avoid its removal;
• "Open in a new window" - the page by link opens in a new web browser window;
• "... in a private window" - download the page from the link in safe mode;
• "Hide" - delete.

There is one more setting for the integrated panel. Click the gear button on the bookmarked tab. It is located at the top right side of the URL blocks.

Using the "Top sites" option, the display of the express panel is turned off and on. Accordingly, you need to remove or set a “tick” in the box for this line. And in the add-on "Show ...", located under the inscription, the view is set - in two rows or in one.

Addons

It must be said that add-ons for organizing the express panel have much more features than the built-in browser tool. Consider the most popular solutions for Firefox.

Fast Dial

This addon is installed, like all the ones described below in this article, as follows:

1. Open the official resource for downloading applications for Firefox in your browser - https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/.

2. In the "Search for add-ons" field (top right), type the name of the add-on - Fast Dial. Click on the hint of the same name in the drop-down list.

Note. If you install another add-on, you need to specify its name in the search accordingly.

3. On the page that opens, click the "Add ..." button. Confirm the installation, wait for the download to complete.

Fast Dial is the easiest to manage system of visual bookmarks in a tab. Upon completion of the installation, click on the empty block. In the settings window, enter the address of the site whose thumbnail and link you want to see in the express panel. Enter the URL in the Address field and click OK.

Right-clicking on the Fast Dial workspace opens a list of commands of general importance, as well as modes for importing and exporting saved links. These options allow you to quickly return a previously created collection of URLs to the express panel.

The settings window contains options for adjusting the size of table blocks and their number (horizontally and vertically), update parameters.

speed dial

Similar in function and design to Fast Dial. Immediately after installation is complete, it prompts the user to set initial settings: install the panel on start page, adding an addon button to top panel FF, launch in empty tabs, etc.

Attention! After enabling / disabling the settings, do not forget to click "OK" for the changes to take effect.

To place an address in a table block, click on it and enter the link in the "Address:" field.

After saving, the loaded preview of the page (its appearance) can be updated, if necessary, with the “arrow” button (it is located in the upper right corner of the block).

A very good solution for those who use FF with an express panel on various devices. As soon as the installation of the addon is completed, you will immediately be offered a small step-by-step overview of managing the TOP-PAGE interface. After reviewing, to proceed to the next step of the instruction, click "Continue".

To sync links to different devices, create a profile. In the "Registration" form, enter your working e-mail and password to enter. Then click the "Register" button.

The URL is stored in the block in a standard way. Just like in previous addons:

• block click;
• domain entry;
• click on the "Add" button.

The name of the bookmark is added optionally - not required.

In the "Appearance" menu, the background for the panel is set (the "coloring" options in the tile gallery).

This concludes our review. Of course, besides Fast Dial, Speed ​​Dial and TOP-PAGE, there are many other add-ons for creating an express panel in a tab. They can be found on the FF addons offsite. way practical experience and based on the tasks at hand, you will surely choose the tool for quick access to sites that suits you best. In any case, with this add-on, bookmarks to your favorite sites are always in sight and at hand, which is undoubtedly convenient.

Larisa Viktorovna Vyskubova, 12/11/11

Update dated 01/28/16
Recently, sites have appeared on the Internet whose domain is located in the Russian Federation zone, that is, the address of such a site is written not in Latin letters, but in Cyrillic, after the Cyrillic domain there is a dot, then the letters rf
For example: http://megaservicespb.rf/
Many Internet browsers, programs and services do not understand the new Cyrillic zone.rf. For correct work, they recode Russian letters into the so-called Punycode.
If such a Cyrillic address is written in the site address bar when setting up the express panel, then an error will occur when opening the site by clicking on the filled cell.
In order for programs and services to know how Cyrillic domains actually look like in Latin, there is a certain service, active link which looks like:
https://2ip.ru/punycode/
If necessary, use this service, open it at the link.
Enter a Cyrillic address in the "Domain" field and click the "Translate" button.
Copy the received code in Latin characters and enter it into the site address bar when setting up the express panel.

Mozilla (as is often called Mozilla browser Firefox) is one of the most popular programs. This is the only browser that is prototyped operating system for mobile devices. Mozilla is not heavy on the system and supports many plugins that expand its capabilities.

Mozilla Firefox has a bookmarks bar, but, unfortunately, there is no full-fledged express panel of its own. When you add a new tab, 9 windows appear, where the browser selectively places bookmark thumbnails of frequently visited sites, but you won’t be able to customize such a panel at your discretion, as in Opera. You can only pin or completely delete pages that have already been added automatically.

You can fully use the express panel in Mozilla only by installing special extension(plugin) - Fast Dial. The panel displays from 9 mini-windows with thumbnails of the user's favorite sites. By clicking on such a window, the user quickly goes not just to the selected site, but to its specific page (depending on the setting). As an example, let's try to set up an express panel in Mozilla using the Fast Dial plugin.

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Plugin Installation

In order for a new express panel to appear in the browser, you must:

• Go to the link addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/ (or select "Add-ons" in the Firefox menu);
• In the search bar, enter the name of the plugin - Fast Dial;
• After the plugin is found, it remains to click on the "Add to Firefox" button.

The add-on will be installed and the user will be prompted to restart the browser for the changes to take effect.

Setting up the express panel

After installing Fast Dial, when you click on the + sign (adding a new tab) or Ctrl + T, an express panel with 9 mini-windows should appear.

Setting up the panel is easy. To add a favorite site, you need:

• Copy his address;
• Open the express panel and click on an unoccupied mini-window;
• In the window that appears, in the line "Address" you need to insert the previously copied site address and, if desired, fill in the fields "Title" and "Description" (optional);
• Confirm the action with the "OK" button.

Increasing the number of mini-windows

Optionally, you can increase the number of Express Dial mini-windows as follows:

• In the browser menu, select the "Tools" section, click the "Add-ons" item;
• On the left panel, select the "Extensions" section;
• Click the "Settings" button in the line with the desired extension;
• In the "Number" line, select how many mini-windows should be displayed horizontally and vertically. You can also resize the panel mini-windows themselves.