Instead of your home (start) page, or the appearance of this site when you open a new tab, this is a sign that your browser settings have been changed. Most often, in addition to this, the Visual Bookmarks site also replaces the browser search engine so that all your search queries from Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer are redirected. Thus, you can be forced to look at a specific advertising site, collect statistics on what you are looking for on the Internet, what sites you visit. In the future, this information may be sold.
Whichever home page you set, Visual Bookmarks will always open every time you open your browser. If you try to manually fix shortcuts or restore browser settings, you will see that after some time the Visual Bookmarks site will return to its place again. This is because such programs can monitor the state of browser settings in real time and, when trying to restore them on their own (change the search engine or home page to Google), infect the browser again. Therefore, it is very important to perform a complete computer disinfection by completing each of the steps in the instructions below.
How Visual Bookmarks Infiltrated Your Computer
Therefore, you should always be very careful about what you are going to download from the Internet! After starting the downloaded program, at the installation stage, carefully read all the messages. Do not rush to click the Agree or Agree button in the window that contains the user agreement. Be sure to read it carefully. When installing any programs, try to select the Advanced (Custom) item, that is, to fully control what and where will be installed. In this way, you can avoid potentially unwanted and adware programs from penetrating your PC. And most importantly, never install anything you don't trust!
Ways to clean up your computer from Visual Bookmarks
Step-by-step instructions on how to remove Visual bookmarks from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer
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1. Uninstall the program that caused Visual Bookmarks to appear
Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7
Click Start or press the Windows button on your keyboard. From the menu that opens, select Control Panel.
Windows 8
Click on the Windows button.
In the upper right corner, find and click on the Search icon.
In the input field, type Control Panel.
Press Enter.
Windows 10
Click on the search button
In the input field, type Control Panel.
Press Enter.
The Control Panel will open, in it select the item Uninstalling a program.
You will be shown a list of all programs installed on your computer. Carefully review it and uninstall the program that you suspect as the cause of the infection. This is probably the last program you installed. Just take a closer look at the rest of the programs and remove all that seem suspicious to you or you are sure that you did not install them yourself. To uninstall, select the program from the list and click the button Delete/Change.
2. Remove Visual Bookmarks from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer using AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a small program that does not require installation on your computer and was created specifically to find and remove adware and potentially unnecessary programs. This utility does not conflict with antivirus, so you can safely use it. You do not need to uninstall your antivirus program.
Download the AdwCleaner program by clicking on the following link.
In order not to infect your computer again in the future, please follow three small tips
- When installing new programs on your computer, always read the rules for their use, as well as all the messages that the program will show you. Try not to install with default settings!
- Keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs updated to the latest versions. Also note that you have automatic Windows Update turned on and all available updates have already been installed. If you are not sure, then you need to visit the Windows Update site, where they will tell you how and what to update in Windows.
- If you use Java, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Player, be sure to update them on time.
The Internet is diverse. Hundreds of thousands of websites with a wide variety of content are visited by users daily. Regardless of the goals - educational, entertaining or purely business - sooner or later, any user forms a kind of set of the most frequently used Internet resources.
Social networks, video hosting, gaming portals, news channels, payment aggregators, as well as web pages related to work activities - this is not a complete list of areas of interest for Internet users. And, of course, all web addresses need to be stored somewhere, and in a readable form.
For displaying addresses in the form in which we are accustomed to seeing them now, the DNS service, or Domain Name Server, is responsible - the domain name system, "raw" digital addresses are converted into easily readable characters.
But to save the addresses necessary for users into a single list, the capabilities of Internet browsers are already used, namely, the Bookmarks service, which allows you to save and group the necessary links for subsequent quick access to the required resources.
Of course, such a service is also available in the popular Yandex browser, and it offers not only simple storage of links, but also many rather useful and interesting functions.
The program interface is quite concise, so all operations in the browser are carried out easily, and it will not be difficult to quickly master the control of the heater. Of course, it’s worth starting with a function called “Create a bookmark”.
In Yandex Browser, this is done in two ways.
With the help of controls.
While on a web page, you need to click on the star-shaped icon located to the right of the address bar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+D.
After that, the browser will inform you that the required link is saved in the bookmarks bar. By default, the bookmark is saved to the root folder of the panel, but the storage location can be easily changed. For this you need:
- In the dialog box that appears when adding a bookmark, call up the menu in the "Folder" item, and then click the "Select another folder" line.
- Here you can create a new folder for storing addresses ("RMB-New Folder"), or specify an existing directory.
- After that, it remains to give the folder a name and save the changes.
It is from this menu that you should start grouping links according to the principles required by a particular user. For a deeper configuration of the link storage, you should use the "Bookmark Manager"
The bookmark manager is a fully featured system for managing saved addresses. It allows you to view, edit, sort and delete all bookmarks added to the browser. To access the bookmark manager, do the following:
- Through the icon in the form of lines, you need to go to the menu, then select the "Settings" section.
- A window will open where all the addresses saved by the browser are stored in the "Bookmarks" block.
- To open the folder itself with a list of links, a simple double-click is required.
Monitoring of each of the created folders is carried out using the internal bookmarks bar, by going to which you can access any saved address.
The bookmarks bar is a browser add-on designed for quick access to the most frequently visited resources and located immediately below the address bar. You can turn it on and off using the "Show \ Hide the bookmarks bar" item, which is located in the main menu in the "Bookmarks" section.
Initially, the Bookmarks bar is empty. The desired address is added by right-clicking on the panel itself and selecting the "Add page" item. By clicking on the "Add Folder" item, you can add an entire folder with links to the most popular sites. And for adding links to the folders themselves, the “Add Page” function is already responsible (RMB on the desired folder).
Visual Bookmarks is a more advanced version of the Bookmarks Bar that also offers quick access to the required sites. They are located on the start page and look like mini-images of the saved site page. When you first launch the browser, the resources most requested by users will be displayed here, but no one bothers to customize the contents of each tab.
Create a bookmark
At the bottom of the page is an icon labeled "Add Site". By clicking on it, you need to enter the address of the desired site in the line that appears (you can copy it in advance) and confirm with the “Enter” key, or select from popular or frequently visited addresses, the icons of which will be located below.
Editing and deleting bookmarks
Editing elements are located on each of the tabs in their upper part.
Lock - is responsible for blocking the bookmark from moving, changing and deleting. If the lock is in the closed position, then the bookmark is fully protected, if it is in the open position, it is available for any action.
Gear - allows you to edit a bookmark (the procedure is similar to creating a bookmark).
Cross - delete.
Zen is a kind of autoinformer that displays up-to-date information from selected sites in the feed. It is enabled through the "Menu-Settings-Appearance Settings", where you need to check the box next to the line "Show in a new Zen tab - personal recommendations feed". The user is then only required to select resources, fresh information from which will fall into the feed.
Synchronization
This option allows you to create (and restore if necessary) a copy of all browser bookmarks with their structure preserved, as well as synchronize bookmarks between all user devices.
Since the data in this case is stored on an external server, the user will need a working account in the Yandex.
Synchronization is easy:
- You need to go to the "Menu", then go to "Settings", scroll through the page to the "Synchronization" section, click the "Enable Sync" button.
- Yandex will require authorization; in this place, the data of the current account will come in handy.
- Click "Change settings", then check the box next to the "Bookmarks" item, as well as any other of them, if necessary. This includes visual bookmarks, history, and autofill for forms and passwords.
It should be remembered that on each of the user's devices for which synchronization is performed, Yandex Browser and an authorized account are required.
Storage
Many users, for various reasons, do not trust online data storages or play it safe by creating backups in the traditional way. To copy the browser's bookmark storage file, you need to:
- Activate the display of hidden files and folders. In Windows 7, for example, this is done through the "Organize" button in the window of any folder. Next, you need to click on the line "Folder and search options", where in the "View" tab, check the item "Show hidden files and folders".
- Go to the profile folder, then to "AppData", then "Local", and after "Yandex". Inside is the “User Data” folder, and it already contains the “Default” directory. It is here, in the Bookmarks file, that Yandex Browser stores all user bookmarks.
Bookmarks are a universal repository where photos, videos and posts that we like, that is, that we like, go. At any time, you can go to the Bookmarks section and see the information that you liked earlier, everything is stored there and has not gone away.
If in the main menu, which is located in the full version of Vkontakte on the left, you do not have the Bookmarks item, you need to enable it. To do this, hover over the menu until the gear appears and click on it.
We find in the General tab, which is open by default, Bookmarks and tick it.
Now let's take a closer look at the process of deleting all the bookmarks that exist.
How to delete a photo in Vkontakte bookmarks
All bookmarks are divided into sections - photos, videos, posts, people, products and links.
To remove a photo from Bookmarks, just open it and . To delete all photos at once, you will have to open each one to perform the operation of deleting a like, unfortunately, Vkontakte developers do not provide an automated way to clean photos from Bookmarks. Thus, if you have many photos, you will have to delete one by one. You will see the result only after refreshing the page.
How to remove a video from bookmarks
The video is deleted in the same way as the photo. Open the video, remove the mark I like, close.
How to delete an entry from Vkontakte bookmarks
The process is the same, but nothing needs to be opened. We scroll through the page and remove the like under each post. In parallel, there is an opportunity to unsubscribe from uninteresting communities and groups - there is a corresponding button above each entry.
How to remove a user from bookmarks
Go to the People tab and see those whom you have bookmarked for some reason. To delete, hover over the person and click on the cross, similar to .
If you have a lot of people in your Bookmarks, you will have to delete one at a time for complete cleansing, otherwise nothing.
How to remove a product from your bookmarks
Goods are inconvenient in terms of removal, like photos and videos. Everyone needs to open and remove the like. Since they appeared recently, it remains to be hoped that you have not accumulated a lot of them.
How to remove a link from bookmarks
Visual bookmarks from Yandex is a very useful tool in the browser, be it Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer. However, sometimes it becomes necessary to remove them or replace them with another extension that is similar in function (for example, Fast Dial for Mozilla Firefox).
If you are also inclined to this thought, that is, you no longer want to contemplate Yandex graphic bookmarks in your browsers, follow the instructions below. It will help you not only correctly remove this application from popular Internet browsers, but also save links to your favorite sites remaining in your favorites, change the home page in the settings.
How to export website addresses from visual bookmarks?
You may have been using visual bookmarks for quite some time, and you already have a solid collection of links to your favorite sites. Of course, it can and even should be saved. Why part with such goodness for nothing?
- Open the main browser (which you use all the time).
- Right-click on the page with visual bookmarks. And click on the "How to save ..." option in the context menu.
- In the window that appears, specify the folder in which you want to save the bookmarks, give a name to the file with links.
- In the "File type" column, select one of the options:
- "HTML format" - for importing addresses into another browser, or the same one - but into another extension or standard bookmarks;
- "Text file" - for storing links in a text document with the .txt extension in the form of a list (opens with a standard Windows notepad).
Now your favorite web resources will definitely not be lost!
The procedure for removing Yandex visual bookmarks from browsers
Mozilla Firefox
1. Press the key combination "Ctrl + Shift + A", or open the "Tools" in the main menu of FF and go to the "Add-ons" section.
2. To remove visual bookmarks, click the "Extensions" item from the vertical list of options located on the left side of the page.
3. Find the "Visual Bookmarks" application and click the "Delete" button in its panel.
Attention! Yandex elements from Firefox are removed in the same way.
4. Clear history and browser cache (Ctrl + Shift + Del).
5. In the "Tools" section of the main menu, click "Settings". And then in the option "On startup ..." (tab "General") set "Show home page".
6. In the "Home Page" column, enter the address of the search engine you want to use. If you are satisfied with the Yandex search engine, leave this setting unchanged.
7. Restart Firefox.
Google Chrome
1. Click the left mouse button on the button "Settings and management ..." (the icon "three horizontal stripes" - to the right of the search bar).
2. Select the item "Settings" and click in the submenu (on the left under the inscription "Chrome") "Extensions".
3. In the "Visual Bookmarks" application panel, click the "trash can" icon. It is located to the right of the Enabled option.
4. Clear the cache and delete your browsing history (button "Settings ..." >> "Additional tools ..." >> "Delete data").
5. Restart Google Chrome.
Opera
1. Go to the main menu (the "Opera" button in the upper left corner).
2. Open the "Extensions" section.
3. Remove "Visual bookmarks" and "Elements" of the Yandex system.
Attention! Links to search engine services ("Market", "Maps", etc.) from the Opera express panel can be removed selectively. Right-click on the menu item you want to remove and activate the "Delete" function.
4. To remove/change the search engine, press "Alt + P" at the same time or go to the "Settings" menu section. In the "At startup ..." option, enable "Open a specific page" and in the "Set page" setting, specify the address of the search engine.
Internet Explorer
To change the interface of the IE home page, along with adjusting the internal settings, regular Windows tools are also used.
1. Press the Win key or the Start button (large OS icon).
2. Click "Control Panel".
3. Run the option in the "Programs" - "Uninstall a program" section.
4. Find the Yandex Elements for Internet Explorer application in the list of installed programs.
5. Right-click on it, and then select "Delete" from the menu that opens.
6. To change the home page: in the "Tools" menu, open the last item - "Internet Options". On the "General" tab in the "Home page" column, enter the address of the search engine that you plan to use when surfing the web. Then click the Apply and OK buttons.
Attention! If you are going to use the Yandex search engine, this option does not need to be changed. Even if the visual bookmarks are removed, IE will still display its page on startup.
7. Restart Internet Explorer.
That's it - the bookmarks have been removed! Now, it's time to think about how to organize a new version of the interface in browsers to use saved links.
Comfortable travels on the Internet to you, dear reader!
Probably, each of us is familiar with such a service as "Yandex Bookmarks". With this add-on, you can quickly create any directory of your favorite sites and go to them without entering the address into the browser line. Moreover, you can use the Yandex Visual Tabs service not only on a computer, but also on a laptop or even a smartphone. What is special about this add-on, how to use it and how to install it? You will learn all this in our today's article.
What are Yandex Visual Tabs for?
Purely for ease of use. This small but very useful add-on makes your browser more functional and easier to use. Agree, it is much better to open and click on the icon with your favorite site on it than to enter its full name in the address bar or constantly search through a search engine. You can go to any bookmark you like in one click. Also, one of the main advantages, due to which Internet users install the Yandex Visual Tabs add-on on their browser, is the ability to save up to 24 bookmarks. Thus, you can go to any of these 24 sites in one click, without opening a search engine and without typing anything in
Competitors
The main competitor of the Yandex Visual Tabs service is the Speed Dial add-on. In fact, these two extensions practically do not differ from each other, the only thing in Yandex when opening a new tab is its search (at the very top above the bookmarks). That is, if necessary, you do not need to go to Yandex, since it is already present in a new tab. The function is very convenient and does not interfere with working with bookmarks at all. This is probably why the "Yandex Visual Tabs" extension is more popular in RuNet than "Speed Dial".
How to install this add-on?
It is worth noting that visual tabs are available on several browsers at once:
- Google Chrome;
- Firefox;
- "Yandex browser".
In the case of the latter, this function is already present, but for the other two, such an addition would not hurt.
How to set visual bookmarks in "Google Chrome"? First you need to click on the "grid", which is located in the upper right corner of the browser. After that, go to "Tools" - "Extensions". Further in the window you will see all those extensions that have already been installed in "Google Chrome". We do not touch them, but go to the very bottom of the page. Here you will see the "More extensions" button. Clicking it will take you to the Google Chrome Web Store. Now, in the search engine, which is located in the upper left corner, you should enter a query. Then you will be taken to a page where this extension is described in more detail. We find the "Install" button, click "Add" and wait until the application is downloaded to the computer. The download process can be seen from the bottom left corner. As a rule, the download time is no more than 10 seconds (even with the slowest Internet, no more than a minute), since the extension "weighs" about one megabyte. After downloading, you need to install the add-on. There is nothing complicated here, and the installation itself does not take very much time. Everything, you just have to restart the browser and open a new tab to make sure it works.
How to install an extension in Firefox?
Installing this add-on in this browser is similar to the previous case. In "Firefox" you need to go to the extensions and type the query "Visual bookmarks". After you find a suitable application, download it and install it. Do not forget to restart your browser, because often in such cases the tabs may not appear immediately, you need to close and open the program again.
An easier way to install tabs from Yandex
There is another method for downloading the add-on, which can be suitable for both Mozilla and Google Chrome. After entering the query "Download visual bookmarks from Yandex" in the search box, we go to the plugin's official website. Here the site will automatically detect your browser and download the appropriate version of the extension for you.
How to use it? How to make tabs in Yandex?
Using this extension is very easy. If you want to add any site you like to the tab, you need to hover over any of the 24 tabs (by the way, at any time you can move it to another place or replace it) and hover over the icon. After that, you will see three gray editing icons. When you hover over them, hints appear. We need to select the "Settings" button. It is on the left, looks like a gear. We click on it with the right mouse button, and a window appears in front of us with the address bar and the name of the site (if it is saved there). Enter the address of the site you like and click "OK". The name of the application itself determines, so you can leave this line blank. The same thing happens with the icon. It is sometimes not displayed immediately, so here you also need to restart the browser (although the bookmarks themselves can be used immediately after the settings, without restarting).
How to make "Yandex" a new tab?
Similarly to the above steps, open the settings and enter "Yandex official site" in the address bar. Click "OK" and check the functionality of the bookmark. Usually, this application already includes such a tab as "VKontakte" and "Yandex News". But that is not all. You can go to its official website by clicking the "Yandex" button at the top of the search bar. Everything is very simple and convenient.
We have already figured out how to make new Yandex tabs, now let's talk about how to delete a particular bookmark. This is done even faster than adding. When hovering the mouse over the icon with the site you want to delete, select the gray cross and click the mouse button. After that, the bookmark itself will be removed from the panel. In its place, you can install a new one or move any icon to another place. You can move the tabs in any direction, just hold down the image with the tab and drag it to the desired location in the window.
Additional application settings
It is worth noting that the "Settings" button is displayed not only when you hover over the icon. There are two in total. One of them is located in the lower right corner of the page. After clicking it, you can choose a background for bookmarks (by the way, there are very interesting images there) and select the number of tabs. In earlier versions, you could select up to 48, now only 24. However, this number is quite enough to keep all your favorite sites on one page.
How to remove tabs in Yandex?
If you no longer wish to use the visual bookmarking service, you can remove this application from your browser. But it’s best not to uninstall, but to disable the extension so that you don’t reinstall it on your computer or laptop later. It is worth noting that there is no general rule for disabling tabs on all browsers, so the options for deleting bookmarks are different for everyone.
If you use the Google Chrome application, go to the main menu under the "bar" next to the address bar. Next, find "Settings" and right-click. On the left you will see a menu in which there is an item "Extensions". Go into it. Here, as in the installation, you will see a list of add-ons you have installed. Find "Visual Bookmarks" in the list. Next to them will be visible icon in the form of a basket. After clicking on it, all bookmarks that you set earlier are automatically deleted.
And now about how to disable the tabs option in Mozilla. To do this, you need to open a browser window, find the "Tools" section at the top, select the "Add-ons" item. After that, you will see a panel that relates to visual bookmarks (usually it is located in the settings for Yandex Bar). Opposite this item, you need to uncheck or click the "Disable" button (depending on the version of the browser).
Next to this value is the "Delete" button. You should not press it, because when you uninstall visual bookmarks, you will need to download them again. And since this extension weighs very little and does not take up much memory on the hard drive, it is enough to disable this rather useful and convenient addition from the Yandex developers and surf the Internet further. You can still turn it on and use it again at any time.
Conclusion
So, we found out all the features and nuances of installing an extension called "Visual bookmarks from Yandex" for the most popular Internet browsers.
