Larisa Viktorovna Vyskubova, 12/11/11

Update from 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 letters, after the Cyrillic domain there is a dot, then the letters рф
For example: http://megaservicespb.rf/
Many Internet browsers, programs and services do not understand the new Cyrillic zone.рф. To work correctly, they recode Russian letters into the so-called Punycode.
If you write such a Cyrillic address in the site address bar when setting up the express panel, then when you open the site by clicking on the filled cell, an error will occur.
In order for programs and services to know what Cyrillic domains in Latin letters actually look like, there is a certain service, the active link to which looks like:
https://2ip.ru/punycode/
If necessary, use this service, open it using the link.
Enter the Cyrillic address in the “Domain” field and click the “Translate” button.
Copy the resulting code in Latin characters and enter it into the site address bar when setting up the express panel.

Of course, any modern user, whether a beginner or a real professional, has definitely heard about the popular Internet browser Mozilla Firefox. In recent years, it has deservedly taken a leading position solely due to the many useful services and features that make surfing the Internet as comfortable and efficient as possible. Among them, a worthy place is occupied by the log of recent visits, downloading files to the computer and the Firefox express panel. Therefore, it is worth finding out what this service is for and how to properly manage it.

What is Firefox Express Panel and what is it for?

Many users of the popular Internet browser probably know that Mozilla Express Panel is a special list of Internet pages. It is designed to provide a person with quick access to the most popular and selected sites.

The main advantage of this add-on is that there is no longer a need to add addresses to bookmarks or remember their names, since now you can simply click on the page image in the express panel and go directly to viewing it.

Important! The Express panel in Firefox is not a service installed by default, as in other browsers, so each user must, if desired, independently download, install and configure these add-ons at their own discretion.

How to customize the express panel in Mozilla

Since the express panel is not installed in the browser, you can install it as an add-on in the browser menu.

The most popular among all users are the following express panels:

• Top-Page (to use it, you should register on the Top-Page.Ru website and log in when downloading files);
• Atavi;
• Fast Dial;
• and etc.

According to statistics, most users prefer Speed ​​Dial. In order to install the express panel in Mozilla, you should visit the website and download the necessary installation files. After launching them, you should perform the following actions:

Thus, in order to make the most of all the advantages of the popular Internet browser, you need to download a convenient express panel that allows you to quickly visit any page.

Mozilla Firefox is a flexible browser-designer that can be supplemented with various functionality using built-in extensions. This functionality includes an express panel of visual bookmarks for quick and convenient access to users’ favorite sites.

Mozilla Firefox comes 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 backup copies. 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. In this case, free cells are filled only by automatically adjusting new sites from the browser history to them.

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

5 Best Visual Bookmark Express Panels for Mozilla Firefox Browser

How to equip the browser with various extensions, including specifically Mozilla Firefox, is described in the article “”.

Top-Page

The Top-Page extension is a cross-platform solution that will certainly be of interest to 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 an express panel of site thumbnails.

Once you set up the express panel and organize your favorite sites on it, you can instantly access visual bookmarks 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 express panel for visual bookmarks is not the best masterpiece of design, it is far from the most advanced functional product, however, it is possible to change the background image and adjust the number of thumbnails of selected sites by width.

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

Atavi

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

Visual bookmarks from Yandex Today's article provides an overview of Visual Bookmarks from Yandex.

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

Fast Dial

Fast Dial is a custom extension for Mozilla Firefox.

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

In Fast Dial settings

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

To add a new visual bookmark, click on an empty cell and enter the web address of your favorite site. Each visual bookmark can have its own logo, as well as assign hot keys for quick access.

Fast Dial is one of the most beautiful express visual bookmark panels in the Mozilla Firefox extension store.

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

FVD Speed ​​Dial

FVD Speed ​​Dial is perhaps the most beautiful, most impressive, most functional, most customizable express visual bookmark 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, you always have to sacrifice something.

FVD Speed ​​Dial contains a lot of settings, thanks to which the design and organization of the express panel can be finely tuned to your taste - choose a beautiful background image, adjust 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 becoming cluttered with bookmarks. In this case, a group of popular bookmarks from 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 the empty cell with a plus sign on the express panel, enter the web address of the site, and we can assign a group, title, and image from among those suggested for the bookmark.

To sum it up...

Despite the fact that FVD Speed ​​Dial is far from being an accomplice to the performance of Mozilla Firefox, the advantages of this express panel of visual bookmarks are obvious - beauty will save the world.

Users of low-power netbooks and older PC builds can, for example, abandon the bulky background image, leaving the preset background of the Express panel white, so as not to burden the browser.

You don't know how to set up an express panel in Mozilla? Do you think this is 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 every time. You just need to save it once and you can access the site with one click. If you don’t know how to install such a panel in the Mozilla browser, read this article.

Installation of express panel

Unlike Opera, in Mazil this panel is not provided by default. You will need to install a special browser add-on. This is not difficult to do, and 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 the extension, do the following:

• Open the browser, you will see the browser start page menu;
• Go to the “Tools” section (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”;
• Select the desired option from the list provided;
• 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 “Basic”;
• In the “At startup” line, select “Show blank page”, then “OK”;
• Close the tab and then the browser;
• Launch your browser again;
• Now you will see that an 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 website;
• 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 a new tab, the express panel will appear;
• Right-click on it and select “Edit”;
• Click in the “Address” field, right-click there and click “Insert”;
• Check the box next to “Create a thumbnail from...”;
• And uncheck the “Dynamic” item;
• In the “Title” line, name the link as you like and click “OK”.

Now you will see that a miniature has appeared in one of the cells in the express panel. If you click on it, the page will go to the site.

If you need to delete an image in a mozilla, right-click on it and select “Clear.” If you need to change the link address or change its name, select “Edit”.

Enable 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 find any program windows when you launch the browser, it means that full-screen mode is activated. To exit it, click on the “F11” function key. You can do it another way:

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 this 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 only Internet address tabs are located 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 should be displayed in the browser.

"Yandex.Bar" button

Separately, it is worth mentioning the expansion of “Yandex.Bar” in Mazila. With it, you can customize your browser window to suit your needs. If the application has been downloaded and installed, you can enable 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.

Then you can customize the Bar panel

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

A modern browser offers a lot of opportunities for convenient work. If you have just installed an Internet browser, look at what features are available in it. Open the menu in the mozilla, explore the functions, select what you need and what you can do. Sometimes users don’t even know that it can take a couple of seconds to complete some actions (which take them a lot of time) (sometimes they just need to click the mouse button). The standard settings often do not have very useful functions; many of them are activated additionally.

Changing the scale in Mozilla

If you are setting up an express panel in this browser, 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 in the control panel;
• Go to the “Scale” tab;
• From the list that opens, you can choose in which direction to change the scale. To increase - press “CTRL+”, to decrease - “CTRL-”. There is also a keyboard shortcut “CTRL+0” - to set the scale to the original parameters.

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

Mozilla (as the Mozilla Firefox browser is often called) is one of the most popular programs. This is the only browser that is a prototype 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, it does not have its own full-fledged express panel. When you add a new tab, 9 windows appear, where the browser selectively places thumbnail bookmarks of frequently visited sites, but you cannot 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 a special extension (plugin) - Fast Dial. The panel displays 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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Installing the plugin

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, all you have to do is click on the “Add to Firefox” button.

The add-on will be installed, and the user will be asked 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 to:

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

Increasing the number of mini-windows

If desired, you can increase the number of mini-windows in the Express Panel as follows:

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