A set of useful Yandex extensions and elements for the Mozilla Firefox browser. Yandex elements for Mozilla Firefox Yandex elements VK

Yandex Elements (Yandex express panel) is a set of add-ons to the Internet browser that significantly simplify working with all company services.

Then you need to click on the “Install” button. The browser's security system will warn you about a blocked request, on which you will need to click "Allow".

In other browsers this may not happen, and the download will begin immediately after clicking the button.

After this, a window will appear warning you about installing add-ons. It will contain a list of extensions to install.

In our case, these are “Yandex Elements” and “visual bookmarks”. In this window you will need to click “Install Now”.

The message will warn you that malicious programs may harm your computer or serve as a means to steal personal information.

After downloading and using applications, you will need to restart the browser. To do this, a window will appear with a notification and a “Restart now” button, which you will need to click.

The browser will close, after a few seconds, a simple message will appear, it will say that the extensions were successfully installed.

After clicking “Continue”, after a few seconds, the browser will load with ready-made extensions.

Note! The start page has noticeably changed; icons for Yandex extensions have been added to the panel to the right of the address bar: “Mail”, “Weather” and “Disk”. Along with them, an invisible one is added to the toolbar - “Yandex.Translation”, which works in the background and appears only in the context menu by right-clicking on the selected word.

The new start page provides many more options than the previous visual bookmarks bar:

To use the Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disk applications, you will need to log into your account on the Yandex mail service.
A button for quick access to recently closed tabs.
Open your browser's download manager.
Button to call the bookmark manager.
Calling a window for working with the history of viewed pages.

In addition, it is possible to add a new bookmark. To do this, you need to click on the button located in the lower right part of the page.

The maximum number of bookmarks on a page is limited to two and a half dozen.

There is no option to combine bookmarks into folders.

This action will open the add bookmark form.

The new address can be either entered into a special line or selected from the most frequently viewed or recently visited pages.

Setting up visual bookmarks

To configure the express panel in the best way, you will need to click “Settings” in the lower right corner of the page.

Then you will need to click “Other options” to open a form with more detailed settings.

This “slider” allows you to change the number of bookmarks from one to 25.
Here the user selects a background image. Button 2a allows you to upload your own image.
In the drop-down menu you can select the type of display of sites in bookmarks. You can display the logo and title, the logo and a screenshot of the main page, or only the screenshot.
The checkboxes in this block allow you to: enable/disable the search bar, bookmarks bar, sending statistics and contextual suggestions.
A button that allows you to make the visual bookmarks bar your home page.

Additional features

Along with the visual bookmarks panel, Yandex.Elements provides the user with several useful services designed as an extension for the browser.

With their help, you can quickly view your mailbox and cloud storage contents, monitor the weather, and translate text from foreign languages directly in the browser.

Yandex Mail

Allows you to open incoming emails from the browser toolbar.

To send emails or other actions, the add-on redirects the user to the mail service page.

To use, you must log in to your own Yandex account.

Yandex.Weather

By clicking on the service icon, the weather forecast for the current day for the region is displayed.

Provides information about cloud cover, humidity, wind direction, pressure and temperature fluctuations throughout the day.

To receive a forecast for the next ten days, the user is redirected to the service page.

Yandex.Disk

This extension provides all files stored in the cloud in the form of a list.

Each of the files can be downloaded, and it is also possible to send a link in order to download files from Yandex Disk.

Yandex.Translation

This feature allows you to translate foreign words directly on the page. To do this, you need to highlight the word of interest and right-click on it.

In the drop-down menu there will be an item “Find translation”.

Clicking on it will redirect the user to the Yandex.Dictionary page with a comprehensive translation.

From the same menu you can send the selected text via email or perform a search.

Removing the Yandex express panel

If there is a need to restore the standard menu of visual bookmarks instead of the Yandex express panel, you will need to open the application and browser extensions manager.

In FireFox, this comes from the options menu in the top right corner of the browser window.

We need an "Add-ons" block.

Clicking on the add-on icon will redirect the user to a page with settings for extensions and plugins.

In the “Extensions” item, among others, there will be “Visual bookmarks” and “Yandex elements”. Opposite them there will be “Delete” buttons.

After removal, the browser will restart and the start page will return to its original appearance.

Installing Yandex elements

Yandex Express Panel: installation, configuration, removal - complete guide

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Today we will talk about Yandex Bar - a popular extension (panel) for . Once upon a time, this was a completely useless panel that offered little to both the average Internet user and the webmaster.

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

Although, of course, all of the above does not apply to all versions of Ya.Bar that you can download. For example, for the Opera and Chrome browsers, this panel is unlikely to be useful to webmasters, because there is not much of what is present in the full-featured versions, which are intended for installation as 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.

Recently, Ya.bar was renamed to , but even the numbering of versions of this add-on for popular browsers continued. There are not many changes in Elements compared to the previous version of this extension, but they still exist. 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 regular search, and why are they trying to almost forcefully impose their panels, all kinds of bars, free programs on us, ordinary users? (for example, which is in your browsers and default search).

Basically, the box just opens. The Bar, Google Toolbar, and Bing Bar are needed for two main reasons. Firstly, it will tightly tie you to your search engine through the search form and all these additional services, which can be accessed from these panels.

Secondly, they simultaneously solve for themselves (or are trying 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 won’t be a problem, but here’s how track visitor actions directly on the sites?

Here you will get the answer to the question, why such sophisticated (and, probably, expensive to develop and support) visitor counters, like Google Analytics, are positioned as absolutely free (and the same Liveinternet, probably sells its statistics to search engines, otherwise it would not be free).

But not all sites have counters (after all, many webmasters understand how this can result if the quality of the resource is not high enough), 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. Thus, Yandex actually recruits free testers, 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, it, just like for us, ordinary webmasters, will be directly proportional to the resulting income.

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

Yandex Bar (in its new name it is 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 on many RuNet users, and most of them did not download it specifically, but simply forgot to uncheck the corresponding boxes when installing which - a free program that has entered into an agreement with Yandex or was purchased by it outright (ala, Punto Switcher, the link to which I provided just above).

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

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, Yandex Bar will begin downloading, then you will be asked about your desire to install this application:

What is noteworthy is that after renaming 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 the installed application. A prudent search engine will ask you to agree to the user agreement in order to avoid excesses and will 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 to track you (I don’t think that the information collected is personalized in any way), but the search engine really needs this information to improve the quality of its search.

Afterwards, 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 will look a little different. The main informers will be located to the right of the search bar, and a strip will appear just below where you can drag additional buttons when setting up this panel (see just below in the text):

Next on the Yandex Bar are your profile buttons and the search engine informer. Mail with the number of new letters, as well as buttons for going to the page, adding a page opened in the browser to Ya.Bookmarks and a button leading to a page with additional widgets and buttons. It’s the last button, or rather the addition of new buttons, that we’ll talk about in a little more detail.

Yes, Ya.bar also adds two icons to the address bar, shown in this picture:

When you click on the first “Address Bar Corrector” button, you seem to block the keyboard layout that you currently have selected in the operating system. Those. even if you select Russian for typing, Latin letters will still be entered in the address bar. Probably, this may seem convenient to some, but personally I don’t care.

But I liked the second button of the i.bar “Show in an easy-to-read form”, because it actually acts as a “Print page” button, which allows you to present web pages in an easy-to-read form (removing everything unnecessary).

Many people don’t like to read from the screen, and they don’t always have time for it, so by printing a page with a minimum of graphics, you can significantly save on printer ink. Perhaps there is still no button to transfer to, but for this purpose you can use and.

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 asked to make preliminary settings for the display of new buttons on the Yabar panel and click the “Save” button after completing these manipulations:

That's it, the buttons will appear on the panel. If you are not satisfied with something (for example, their position relative to others in the Yandex Bar line), then you can go to the settings (gear-shaped button) and make the shuffles you need, and also, if desired, change the order of their appearance to panels:

The set of “Ya.Webmaster” buttons allows you to quickly access this useful service directly from the bar panel, as well as view some indicators of your sites (if you have created separate buttons for them).

There is also an expanded set of buttons for Ya.Money and many other buttons for Ya.Bar, but it’s up to you to decide what to use and what not. And in general, I would not classify the use of Yandex Bar as a mandatory attribute, because this panel still does not meet all the requirements of a webmaster, although in combination with other extensions for the Mozilla Firefox browser it has a right to exist. IMHO.

Differences between Elements and Bar for Chrome, Mazila, IE and Opera

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

Actually, after installing this extension in the Google Chrome and Opera browser, you will see an Items button in the upper right corner, displaying 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 by moving the mouse cursor to it and holding CTRL on the keyboard, although this operation can be simplified:

I found this option of Yandex Elements quite convenient, especially if a complete translation of the page is not required, but you just need to look up the meanings of some words:

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

And the main difference between Elements and the Bar is that in the new panel it is now possible to enter search queries not in a separate form, but directly in the address bar (saves useful browser space), and along with the addresses you have already typed before, and will appear Yandex search suggestions:

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

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

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

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

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

Installation steps for the Yandex Elements add-on

In order to install Yandex elements for Firefox, you need to go to the page https://element.yandex.ua/ in your browser and click the “Install” button. It is worth noting that if you get to this page from another browser, for example, from, the system will automatically offer to install the extension specifically for the Chrome browser.

No preparatory operations are required for installation, just click “Install now”.

After restarting, new icons will appear to the right of the address bar.

Yandex elements for Mozilla require user authorization on their services. To do this, click on the email icon and you will be immediately redirected to the authorization page. Enter the required data in the appropriate fields and click “Login.”

After authorization, the mail page on the Yandex service will open, and the number of unread letters will be displayed next to the mail letter icon in the Yandex elements. From now on, you can manage your mail without going to the mail page. Authorization will immediately occur in the Yandex Disk system. By clicking on the Disk icon, you can view the latest files saved in the system.

Setting up additional services in the Yandex Elements panel

In the Yandex Elements panel for Mozilla, it is also possible to set up a quick transition:

on social networks Odnoklassniki, VK page, Facebook;
mail services Rambler, Mail.Ru, Gmail;
Yandex services such as Metrica, Direct, Money.

To configure these services, you need to right-click on the list of elements and select “Configure elements (City)”. Or, in the browser menu, select “Add-ons” and in the “Extensions” sub-item, click “Customize” in the “Yandex Elements” line. For each social network, you can configure which sub-items will be displayed in the elements. For example, in the “My VK Page” tab you can choose to display messages, a list of friends, groups, and other things. Each email service and social network will also need to be authorized.

It is also worth describing the “Visual Bookmarks” add-on, which will be installed along with the main elements of Yandex. Now, when you open a new tab in the Firefox browser, you will have access to a quick search, as well as an instant transition to your favorite sites. You can add a maximum of 25 visual bookmarks. However, this should be enough for full-fledged work and relaxation, and will save you from wandering through bookmarks in search of the right site, if you always need it at hand.

Advice! At the bottom right of the same page you can customize its appearance, select wallpaper and other parameters.

If for some reason you need to remove Yandex Elements from Firefox, then this can be done from the extensions panel, where the main settings of the add-on are made. Next to the “Customize” button, which I described above, click the “Delete” button.

After deletion, you need to restart your browser, and its appearance and functionality will be the same.

As you understand, Yandex tries to take care of its users, and therefore its extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser turned out to be multifunctional and easy to use.

At one time, Yandex.Bar was a very popular add-on for various browsers. With the development of browser capabilities, this extension turned out to be not very suitable both in appearance and in functionality. Users needed something new, and then Yandex.Bar was replaced with Yandex.Elements.

The principle remained the same, but the implementation and convenience were much higher than in the previous version of the add-on. So, what are Yandex Elements, and how to install them in Yandex.Browser?

We want to make you happy - Yandex.Browser users don’t even need to install Yandex.Elements, since they are already built into the browser! True, some of them are turned off, and you can quickly turn on those elements that you really need.

Let's find out what Yandex.Elements exist in principle, and how to enable them or find them in the browser.

Smart line

The smart line is a universal line where you can enter website addresses and write queries for a search engine. This line displays the most popular queries based on the first letters typed so that you can quickly find the answer.

You can write even with the wrong layout - the smart line will not only translate the request, but also show the site itself that you want to go to.

You can receive a response to some requests without even going to sites, for example, like this:

The same applies to translation - just type an unknown word and start writing “translation”, and the smart line will immediately display its meaning in your language. Or vice versa:

By default, the smart bar is already enabled and works in the browser.

Please note that some of the listed features (translation and display of the response to a request in the address bar) can only be obtained if the default search engine is Yandex.

Visual bookmarks

Visual bookmarks help you get quick access to your favorite and most visited sites. You can access them by opening a new tab.

In Yandex Browser, when you open a new tab, you can already see visual bookmarks in combination with a smart line and a live background. Accordingly, you do not need to install anything additional.

Safety

You no longer need to worry about how dangerous the site you are about to go to is. Thanks to its own security system, Yandex.Browser warns you about going to dangerous sites. These can be sites with malicious content, or fake sites that imitate popular social networks, online banks, and steal your login data and confidential data.

Yandex Browser already includes Protect active protection technology, so there is no need to enable anything additional.

Translator

Yandex.Browser already includes a word translator, which allows you to translate words or entire pages. You can translate a word by selecting it and right-clicking. The translation of the word or sentence will be immediately loaded in the context menu:

When you are on foreign sites, you can always translate the entire site into your language using the right-click context menu:

To use the translator, you do not need to enable anything additional.

The extension shows where you can buy a product cheaper if you are in an online store. Thus, you do not need to waste time searching for the cheapest price of the product you are interested in on the Internet:

You can enable it by finding the block “ Purchases" and turning on " Advisor»:

You can also configure the advisor (and other extensions) by clicking on " More details" and selecting " Settings»:

Disk

We have already talked about such useful cloud storage as Yandex.Disk.

By enabling it in your browser, you will be able to save images to Drive by simply hovering over it with your mouse to display the save button. You can save other files on website pages in a similar way:

The Yandex.Disk quick access button also allows you to quickly get a link to a saved file:

You can enable Yandex.Disk by finding the “Yandex Services” add-on “ Disk»:

Music

Unfortunately, there is no exactly the same “Music” element as in Elements.Yandex. However, you can install a remote control for your music. This extension allows you to control the Yandex.Music and Yandex.Radio player without switching tabs. You can rewind tracks and add them to your favorites, mark them as “like” or “dislike”:

You can enable the add-on in the above-mentioned way by finding in the “Yandex Services” block “ Music and Radio»:

Weather

The popular Yandex.Weather service allows you to find out the current temperature and view the forecast for the coming days. Both short and detailed forecasts for today and tomorrow are available:

The extension is located in the “Yandex Services” block, and you can enable it by finding “ Weather»:

Traffic jams

Current information about traffic jams in your city from Yandex. Allows you to assess the level of congestion on city streets and helps to create a permanent route so that you can monitor congestion only on this section of the road:

“Traffic jams” can be found in the “Yandex Services” block:

Mail

An add-on that immediately notifies you of incoming emails and allows you to access your mailboxes by quickly switching between them right on the browser panel.

The extension's quick access button displays the number of unread messages and has the ability to give a quick reply:

You can enable it by finding the add-on in “Yandex Services” Mail»:

Card

A relatively new extension that will be useful to all curious users. When you are on any sites, the service will highlight words whose meaning you may not know or understand. This is especially useful when you come across an unfamiliar word or the name of an unfamiliar person, and do not want to go into a search engine to find information about it. Yandex does this for you by displaying informative tips.

In addition, through cards you can watch pictures, maps and movie trailers without leaving the page you are on!

You can enable the element by finding the add-on in “Yandex Advisors” Card»:

Now you know what Yandex Elements exist and how to enable them in your Yandex Browser. This is much more convenient, since some of the services are already built-in, and among the minor features you can turn on only what you need, and also turn it off at any time.

Every PC user has at least once encountered various browser programs that significantly expand the possibilities and also allow you to tailor it to your needs.

In today's article we will look at a popular product from Yandex for the Mozilla Firefox browser, which allows you to add some useful services for webmasters and ordinary PC users. In the new version, it is called “Yandex Elements”.

With the advent of the new version, the add-on has acquired a lot of useful features, among which the implementation of search queries by entering into the address bar stands out.

The new panel now displays buttons related to both Yandex services and third-party products.

To configure the display of buttons in the toolbar, you need to go to the menu in the “Add-ons” section, click the “Settings” button opposite the “Yandex Elements” line and use the mouse to move all the necessary buttons from the left column to the right.

Yandex elements include:

A very convenient and useful function that allows you to translate from English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. The function looks like this: you hover over an unfamiliar word, and the translator offers you options for translating it. If desired, in the program settings you can set the translator to trigger not only by hovering the mouse cursor, but also by simultaneously entering a given key combination. This can save you from unwanted program triggers.

In addition to individual words, Yandex Translator allows you to translate entire texts. To do this, you need to select the sentences that need to be translated, right-click and select “Find translation”.

Visual bookmarks.

A useful extension that allows you to save frequently visited sites. They can be accessed both through the toolbar itself and from the home page when starting the browser or opening a new tab.

Yandex.Webmaster extension.

The extension was created specifically for webmasters. Allows you to see the degree of indexing of your site by a given search engine, as well as see all external and internal links of your site. Thanks to this extension, it is possible to improve the presentation of the site in search results.

Yandex.Metrica extension.

Also a very useful extension for webmasters. It allows you to see the traffic to your sites by receiving data from the Yandex traffic determination service.

Social media buttons.

This extension works with various social networks. Using this button you can both read incoming messages and write new ones.

Your profile button.

Performs a quick login to the Yandex panel and shows the login under which you logged into the toolbar.

Mail button.

Allows you to show the number of new messages from email services such as Gmail, Mail.ru, Yandex.Mail, Rambler-Mail and Ukr.Net Mail.

To install Yandex Elements, you need to download the latest version from the link below. After downloading, the application will appear in the Firefox browser add-ons. To complete the installation of Yandex Elements, the browser must be restarted.