Yandex elements for the mozilla firefox browser. What to do if visual bookmarks are gone: solutions in Mozilla Firefox

Hello. I don’t know about you, but it’s hard for me to imagine my Internet browser without Yandex Elements. Even if they do not belong to functions that cannot be dispensed with, you must agree that Yandex elements make our stay on the Internet more comfortable. Visual bookmarks, quotes, fast access To social networks and mail, weather forecast, traffic conditions save time and make life easier.

In general, I need them, period. So - having engaged in a planned reinstalling Windows 7, I downloaded the latest drivers for PC, video codecs, new versions of my favorite programs, installed Yandex.Browser and latest version Mozilla Firefox. I immediately launched Firefox in order to install Yandex Elements, but here's the trouble - by going to the office. site elements and habitually clicking on the "install" button, I got a connection error and reset the installation.

I checked the connection, tried a couple more times - Yandex elements for Mozilla Firefox are not installed, even if it cracks, since I did not suffer for long, I remembered how to solve this problem ...

Why Yandex Elements is not installed
for Firefox and how to install.

To be honest - why the Yandex element extension was not installed in firefox in the usual way today, with the wording - "the add-on cannot be loaded due to a connection error with element.yandex", I was too lazy to delve into it, because the installation method shown below worked the first time, that's all it worked and I lost interest in developers' graters.

So, how to get around the error and install Yandex Elements for Mozilla Firefox. Opening the official page YandexElement , the browser should be detected automatically and you will see the inscription "A set of useful extensions for Mozilla Firefox" above the button. Right click click on the "Install" button, in the menu that opens, select - "Save target as ...".

In the Explorer window that opens, specify the folder (the one that is easy for you to find, the working one that you use for downloads), remember the name of the downloaded file, Yandex elements - YandexElement.xpi. We raise our eyes up, in the browser menu we click on "Tools", in the drop-down submenu we click on "Add-ons".

In the add-ons window, select "Get add-ons", in the upper right corner we find the gear, if you hover the mouse, the tooltip "Tools for all add-ons" will pop up, left-click, select "Install add-on from file" in the submenu.

In the explorer that opens, we find the folder with the saved Yandex Elements for Firefox, select "YandexElement.xpi", click open. A standard warning window will appear, asking you to install add-ons from "honest authors", we are fine with this - we downloaded the extension from official page Yashki, click - "Install now."

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Today we will talk about Yandex Bar - a popular extension (panel) for . Once it was a completely useless panel, which gives little to both an ordinary Internet user and a webmaster.

But now, in my opinion, Yandex Bar has grown out of children's panties and can be considered as a fairly convenient and complete tool that increases the convenience of surfing the net and which will be useful even to webmasters to a certain extent.

Although, of course, all of the above does not apply to all versions of Ya.Bar that you can download. For example, for Opera and Chrome browsers, this panel is unlikely to be useful to webmasters, because there is not much of what is present in full-featured versions that are intended to be installed as or Internet Explorer. I don't work with Safari, so I can't say anything about the functionality of the Yandex Bar version for this browser.

Ya.bar was recently renamed to , but even the numbering of versions of this add-on for popular browsers continued. Changes in Elements compared to previous version there are not many of these extensions, but they are still there. Read more in the article at the link above.

Why does the Yandex search engine need a Bar (Elements)?

Previously, I had a subconscious question, why do search engines go out of their way and try to add more and more free services in addition to the usual search and why they are trying to impose on us almost by force, ordinary users, your panels, all kinds of bars, free programs (for example, which is in your browsers and search by default).

Basically, the casket just opens. Bar, Google Toolbar, and Bing Bar are needed for two main reasons. First, tightly tie you to your own search engine through the search form and all these additional services that can be accessed from these panels.

Secondly, they simultaneously solve for themselves (or try to solve) another global mega-task - to improve . Probably, everyone has already heard about the influence of user factors on promotion. Let's say that tracking user behavior in search results will not be a problem, but here's how track visitor activity directly on the site?

This is where you will get the answer to the question why such fancy (and, for sure, expensive to develop and maintain) hit counters, like Google Analytics, are positioned as absolutely free (and the same liveinternet, for sure, sells its statistics to search engines, otherwise it would not be free).

But counters are not on all sites (after all, many webmasters understand what this can turn out to be if there is not enough high quality resource), which is why search tools such as Yandex Bar are needed. It must be useful to users, otherwise it will not be installed, but among other things, it collects data about their behavior. Those. in this way, Yandex actually recruits free testers for itself, thereby increasing the quality of its search results and the level of its income.

In general, search engines, just like you and me, dear readers, are fighting for a place in the sun, i.e. for the banal. Well, and it, just like for us, ordinary webmasters, will be directly proportional to the income received as a result.

After all, search engines (at least Google and the Runet mirror) earn up to 90 percent of all money on contextual advertising (they publish Adwords in their search results, respectively). True, we, dear readers, unlike them, have a much larger assortment, but, of course, on a much smaller scale.

Yandex Bar (newly called Elements and a link to a description of the differences between these two applications is given at the beginning of this publication) is now installed by many Runet users, and they, for the most part, did not download it on purpose, but simply forgot to uncheck the appropriate boxes when installing which someday free program, who entered into an agreement with Yandex or bought it in the bud (ala, Punto Switcher, the link to which I gave a little higher).

But nevertheless, now you can quite consciously download and install Yandex bar for your browser (more functional versions for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer) and still not regret what you did.

Download and install Yandex Bar for Mozilla, Explorer, Opera and Chrome

After you click on the "Install" button, Mazila may ask you for permission to install this extension, and after your approval, the Yandex Bar download will begin, then you will be asked about your desire to install this application:

Remarkably, after the renaming of the Bar, instead of one add-on, two will be installed at once: the ones I have already described and, in fact, the Elements.

After installation, you will be prompted to restart Firefox to activate installed application. A prudent search engine will ask you to agree to the user agreement in order to avoid excesses and offer to make Yandex.ru the default page, and your search as the default option.

As I said just above, you will be asked to agree to use your data about what resources you visit and how much you liked everything there. Of course, this is not done in order to follow you (I do not think that the information collected is somehow personalized), but the search engine really needs this information to improve the quality of its search.

After, at the top of the Mozilla window, you will see the Yandex Bar (Elements) panel, and additional buttons will also appear on the right side of the address bar:

Elements but now they look a little different. To the right of the search bar, the main informers will be located, and a strip will appear a little lower where you can drag additional buttons when setting up this panel (see below in the text):

Next on the Yandex Bar panel are your profile buttons and the search engine informer. Mail with the number of new letters, as well as buttons to go to the page, adding a page open in the browser to Ya.Bookmarks and a button leading to a page with additional widgets and buttons. That's it about the last button, or rather about adding new buttons, we'll talk a little more.

Yes, Y.bar also adds two icons to the address bar, shown in this figure:

When you click on the first button "Address bar corrector", you seem to block the keyboard layout that you currently have selected in the operating system. Those. even if you have selected the Russian language for typing, Latin letters will still be entered in the address bar. Probably, this may seem convenient to someone, but personally it somehow doesn’t bother me.

But I liked the second button of the “Show in a Readable Form” bar, because it actually acts as the “Page for Printing” button, which allows you to present web pages in a digestible form (removing everything superfluous).

Many people do not like to read from the screen, and there is not always time for this, so by printing a page with a minimum of graphics, you can significantly save on printer ink. Perhaps, the button for transferring to is still missing, but you can also use it for this purpose.

Other buttons and widgets for Yandex Elements

So, find the additional buttons you need and click on "Install", located just below, and once again duplicate your desire in the pop-up window:

After that, in the same pop-up window, you will be prompted to make presets displaying new buttons on the Ya.bar panel and clicking the "Save" button after these manipulations are completed:

Actually everything, the buttons will appear on the panel. If something does not suit you (for example, their position relative to others in the Yandex Bar line), then you can go to the settings (the button in the form of a gear) and make the shuffling you need, and also, if you wish, change the order of their sequence to panels:

A set of buttons "Ya.Webmaster" allows you to get quick access to this useful service directly from the bar, as well as view some of the indicators of your sites (if you have created separate buttons for them).

There is also an extended set of buttons for Ya.Money and many other buttons for Ya.bar, but it's up to you to decide what to put and what not. And in general, using Yandex Bar I would not refer to mandatory attributes, because nevertheless this panel does not meet all the requirements of the webmaster, although in combination with other extensions for the Mozilla Firefox browser it has a right to exist. IMHO.

Differences of Elements from Bar for Chrome, Mazila, IE and Opera

Download the latest version of Elements you can on this Yandex page by accessing it from under the browser where you are going to install this add-on:

Actually, after installing this extension in the Google Chrome browser and Opera, you will see the Elements button in the upper right corner, which displays the number of letters in your mailbox and opening many other tabs when clicked, and in the address bar you will see a button that allows you to activate and configure the word translator on the page opened in the browser:

In the case of Opera, however, the translator button will not be located in the address bar, but also in the upper right field. Default, translation of words on the page opened in the browser will be carried out when moving the mouse cursor to it and holding CTRL on the keyboard, although this operation can be simplified:

This option of Yandex Elements seemed to me quite convenient, especially if a full translation of the page is not required, but you only need to look at the meanings of some words:

And, of course, in the browser where you installed the Elements, if you open a new empty tab Yandex bookmarks will flaunt on it, which you are free to customize to your taste and color preferences.

And the main difference between the Elements and the Bar is that the new panel now has the ability to enter search terms not in a separate form, but directly in the address bar (saves the useful space of the browser), while along with the addresses you have already typed earlier, and search suggestions Yandex:

It looks especially wonderful in Chrome (the brainchild of Google). But personally, for more than ten years now, I have mainly been using Yandex search, and all these violent actions of the Runet mirror suit me quite well (the flag is in their hands, the drum is around their neck).

In Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla Firefox, the Yandex Elements panel will look a little different and its functionality will be a little wider:

Those buttons that will be displayed on the Elements panel can be selected in the settings of this extension. To do this, from the menu of the Firefox button - Add-ons - "Extensions" tab - the "Settings" button opposite "Elements":

The settings window almost completely repeats the similar Yandex Bar settings window for Mazila Firefox:

I have nothing to add something new, compared to what I wrote about the Bar. Let me just say that I don’t understand Yandex’s desire to constantly change everything, often losing something useful, for which many users used their browser add-ons.

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The difference between Yandex Bar and Yandex Elements

The traditional Yandex bar has been replaced by Elements. Their development and creation were dictated by new requirements in the computer industry. Their interface looks more grouped and aesthetically pleasing.

The elements still remained functional, like the usual bar. All the toolbars you used before can now be opened with one click, and collapsed just as easily.

Also added is the ability to enter search queries directly into the address bar, and select the action to be performed with the request. For example, instant translation, Wikipedia search, etc.

Yandex Bar used to allow us to translate only individual words, now it is possible to translate entire pages. This is very convenient if you are interested in sites from different countries.

Along with the already familiar Yandex bar functions, Elements retained Visual Bookmarks. They make it possible to quickly open your favorite sites, we can install informative buttons directly on the navigation bar, such as weather, traffic jams, exchange rates, etc. With one click, the necessary information opens in a pop-up window.

System requirements for installation

To install Elements in the Firefox search engine, make sure your hardware is using one of the following platforms:

Windows XP;
Windows 7;
Windows 8;
Windows 10;
Linux;
MacOS X.

Your search engine must be updated to 4 and above!

Update the system if necessary. It updates automatically, but you can do it manually. Go to the search program menu. Then go to the help section, select "About Mozilla Firefox". A new window will open to search for automatic updates.

When updates are found, restart the search engine for the new settings to take effect. As a rule, the program offers to perform an immediate reboot or perform this action manually. It is worth noting that the changes will not take effect until the reboot is activated.

Please note that if the update did not happen automatically, or the new changes did not take effect, or you have any other difficulties, please visit the page automatic download https://www.mozilla.org/en/firefox/new/?scene=2#download-fx

Also take care of your safety. Do not download Mozilla Firefox from third party websites. Use only the official website of the developer. This way you will protect your system from malicious files that can damage the system.

Now let's move on to injecting elements into the browser:

Installing Yandex as a start page in Mozilla

To set the start page, you need to click on the Firefox logo in the upper left corner. In the opened context menu select Settings-> Settings. A new dialog box will open for making changes to the program.

Next, go to the "Basic" subsection. You must select from the drop-down list in the item "When Firefox starts" "Show home page". Next, specify a link to the home page, as shown in the figure. http://yandex.ru/. For the changes to take effect, click OK and restart Mozilla.

Now your start page is http://yandex.ru/. To quickly navigate to it from other sites, use the Home button.

Setting up Yandex Elements in Mozilla Firefox

To make individual changes to the display of Yandex Elements as well as Visual bookmarks, you need to Windows system Click on the Firefox logo in the top left corner. Select the "Add-ons" option

If you are using the Linux or Mac OS operating system, then first select the Tools item, then go to the "Add-on". A new dialog box will open. We tear out the item "Extensions". In this window, select the "Settings" item (used for individual parameters).

You can also disable the extension of your choice or remove it if you do not plan to use it in the future.

I hope this article was as useful as possible for you, and you can easily use Yandex in the Mozilla Firefox browser.

Today, the browser, be it Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Opera, has already gone beyond a simple Internet browser, now it is already a whole interactive machine. Although you could find out different information about traffic jams, the weather in your city and much more before, but each time you had to jump through the sites for a long time. Now there are add-ons for browsers that monitor useful information and provide it in the form of a simple but very informative panel.

Perhaps the most the best program of these, this is Yandex Elements, which was previously called Yandex.Bar. Given software is distributed free of charge as a browser setting by the company of the same name and is suitable for such operating systems like Windows XP and above, Linux and Mac OS. Unlike analogues, elements do not take up space in the robots of your browser, but are automatically hidden and appear as needed. Besides, front end can be customized to your taste.

List of features provided to you:

"Smart line" of the search engine.
"Yandex.Music", which will allow you to listen to songs at the touch of a button.
Possibility to know the weather in your city.
Traffic map of your or any other city.
Quick access keys to many social networks.
Status Notifications Email(how many unread letters) and others.

Download this program you can follow the link. What is most interesting - the site page itself will provide desired version that suits your browser. Now let's look at the features of installing Yandex elements for some browsers, and the first of them will be Google Chrome. Click the "Install" button on the item page. After that, you will need to wait while the application is downloading. Next, run the downloaded file (you should also close the browser) and open the program installation wizard. In the first window, click "Next", and in the second - "Install", after installation, click "Finish". Launch Chrome again, where you have to click the “Allow” or “Save” item while the new browser settings are confirmed. For Opera browser the installation is the same as for the previous Internet browser. Thus, you will not have any special problems with the procedure. Sometimes it seems that "Yandex Elements" was created specifically for Firefox. We simply click "Install", we will be shown a list of the necessary files and a button, which should be clicked - "Install now". After that, restart your browser. That's the whole installation for Mozilla of any version.

For Internet Explorer, the situation is different. You will have to download and install the necessary functionality separately, like regular programs.