Visual bookmarks are an easy, accessible way to instantly jump to important web pages. By default, Mozilla Firefox has its own version of visual bookmarks. But what if when creating a new tab visual bookmarks are no longer displayed?
Mozilla Firefox Visual Bookmarks is a tool that allows you to quickly jump to frequently visited pages. The key phrase here is "frequently visited" - after all, this decision bookmarks appear automatically based on your visits.
Option 1: Display of bookmarks has been disabled
The display of visual bookmarks can be easily turned on and off by the settings of the web browser itself. First, check if the parameter responsible for the operation of this function is activated:
Option 2: Disable third-party add-ons
The work of some add-ons for Firefox is aimed at changing the display of the page called when a new tab is created. If you have once installed any extension that potentially or directly affects browser bookmarks, be sure to try disabling it and make sure that the standard rendering of frequently visited sites returns.
Now open a new tab and see if the result has changed. If so, it remains to experimentally find out which extension is the culprit, and leave it disabled or remove it, while not forgetting to enable the rest.
Option 3: Cleared your browsing history
As mentioned above, the standard visual bookmarks built into Mozilla Firefox display the web pages you visit most often. If you recently cleaned your browsing history, then the essence of the disappearance of visual bookmarks becomes clear. In this case, you have nothing else to do but to build up your browsing history again, after which you can gradually restore visual bookmarks in Mozile.
Please note that the default visual bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox are a mediocre bookmarking tool that works until the first time you clear your web browser.
Try as an alternative to use, for example, the Speed Dial extension - this is the most functional solution for working with visual bookmarks.
Moreover, Speed Dial has a data backup function, which means that no more bookmarks and settings you have made will be lost.
We hope this article helped you bring visual bookmarks back to Firefox.
After Yandex developed its own search engine he has updated most of the services and services. The so-called improvement also affected the search engine Mazil, which was very much disliked by many users.
That is why the question of returning to old version saved resources in Firefox.
Restore visual bookmarks
Before starting the procedure, you need to remove the new addition. To do this, open the Firefox menu and click on the "Add-ons" column, and then activate the Extensions item.
First of all, you need to download the file from previous version and drag it to the open browser window. After performing these manipulations, the browser will open the installation window, where you will need to click on the Run now button.
At the end of the restart, you need to go to the search engine menu and select the Add-ons column. In this column, you should find the Extensions item and go to the Add-ons Management tab. In order not to disappear visual bookmarks next to the item of the same name, you must select the More link. 
After that, you must disable the program update by checking the box next to the Disabled value. This will prevent the extension from changing automatically.
If the previously saved data has been lost, then it is worth trying to restore their backup. To do this, in the search engine settings, you must specify the Import item and backup and see the possible recovery options.
Features of work
If you managed to return the old visual bookmarks for Mozilla Firefox, then you need to further consolidate the positive result. To do this, after disconnecting automatic update it is worth doing the following:
The newly opened search engine will immediately display the home page in the old form of saved resources for Mazilla.
Answering the question of how to return the previous view, one cannot but mention that links from Yandex can also be optimized at your discretion.
In a special window, you can set the update frequency, the number of links, or set a new background image. The lost interface becomes fully accessible to the user. Recovery also implies additional activation of the required parameters. The user can, for example, display the panel of sites or change their number in the browser window.
To add new resources, select an empty window and click the left mouse button. Then find in the displayed area one of those sites that have recently been closed or enter the address of another.
The windows can be moved if necessary. The following operations with resources are available to the user:
- Editing.
- Update.
- Removal.
It is quite easy to restore the old look of your saved sites in Firefox. To do this, you just need to select the previous modification of the panel from Yandex, install it and configure it according to your preferences.
Many beginners confuse the concepts of bookmarks and browser tabs. These are fundamentally different things. If one or the other disappears from them, the user begins to search through the search engine for information on how to return the pages. If he types in the word “tabs” instead of bookmarks, it can be confusing. Therefore, today we will figure out how to return both tabs and bookmarks of different types to make it easier for you.
What is the difference between bookmarks (including visual ones) and tabs in Mozilla Firefox
Tabs are pages in the browser that are currently open. They are on the horizontal bar at the very top. With their help, you can quickly switch between sites launched in this moment in the browser.
Bookmarks - saved pages in the current browser, in our case it is "Firefox". They are displayed just below the address bar. You can turn a site into a bookmark using the star icon in the address bar. Visual Bookmarks are tiles with the most visited sites that appear on each new blank start tab.
Visual bookmarks - small windows on start page with images of sites
How to recover missing tabs
First, let's look at how to return to their place the tabs that disappeared in the current session or that did not recover from the previous one.
Full restoration of the previous session (after closing the browser and restarting)
Typically, Firefox saves all tabs until the next program launch. However, every system can crash.
How to enable launching of tabs from the previous session
In order for you to automatically open tabs from the old session with each new launch of Mozilla, you must have a special option enabled in the settings:
How to return tabs from a previous session using the browser menu
If you suddenly have the item on restoring pages turned off, after opening "Mozilla", click on the same menu icon and click on the "Restore past session" option. All sites that you opened earlier will start immediately.
In the menu, click on "Restore Previous Session"
If the item turned out to be unclibal (gray letters), use the following trick:
- In Windows Explorer navigate to the following directory: C: \ Users \ username \ AppData \ Roaming \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \ xxx.default. Username is the name of your current account.
- Expand the sessionstore-backups folder. There will be a file recovery.js (recovery.bak). Make a backup copy of it first, for example, save it to the "Desktop".
- Now right click on the file and click on "Rename". Enter sessionstore.js and confirm rename and replace.
- Launch Firefox and see if the item has become active. If yes, click on it. Delete the backup from the Desktop.
Returning individual tabs closed in the current or previous session
The methods below will work if you have not previously deleted your browsing history.
Hotkeys and address bar to help
If you accidentally deleted (closed) a tab in Mozilla, immediately hold down the Shift + T + Ctrl key combination on the keyboard. This page will reappear on the screen. If you click on this combination again, the previous page, closed earlier, will start, and so on in the reverse order. You can pinch this combination as many times as you like to restore closed pages.
The programmatic way to restore separately closed sites is to right-click on any tab and click on the item "Restore the previous page" in the menu.
Click on "Restore Closed Tab"
The last open tabs can be seen in a special menu, which opens by clicking on the arrow in the address bar itself on the right.
Click the down arrow on the address bar
Recovering tabs from Mozilla Firefox history
How to recover missing bookmarks
Let's describe the frequent cases of disappearance of ordinary bookmarks and visual ones.
Simple bookmarks
What to do if all the usual bookmarks have disappeared from your field of vision.
If the panel with bookmarks just disappeared
If you notice that the top bar with the list of bookmarks has simply ceased to be displayed, click on the bar where the address bar is located with the right mouse button. In the gray menu, click on the "Bookmarks Bar" - you will immediately see a line with your saved pages.
Activate the bookmarks bar from the menu
Backup copy
If the pages did not return after the previous method, then they are lost somewhere. They need to be restored using a backup copy of the files:
What to do if all visual bookmarks have suddenly disappeared from empty browser tabs.
Visual bookmarks option disabled
If you opened a new tab "Faefox" and saw a blank page (tiles with visual bookmarks are simply missing), it means that the corresponding option has been deactivated in your browser. Turn it on:
If you have cleared your browsing history in Mozilla
If you recently cleared your history (links to pages that you visited earlier), your personal visual bookmarks will disappear anyway - only standard ones will appear. After all, after cleaning, the browser has nowhere to take information on the most visited resources. You cannot return them. You will have to "work out" the story again so that the browser puts the sites that you open most often in the top pages again.
Tabs are current open pages... Bookmarks are saved sites, they are not deleted along with the history of visits, unlike visual bookmarks. The latter are displayed on tiles on each new page browser as the most frequently visited resources. Using the browser menu, you can quickly restore the previous session completely with all tabs. If you accidentally closed a site, press Ctrl + Shift + T - the page will be restored.
Visual bookmarks are a very handy thing, the use of which helps many users to find frequently visited pages very quickly. However, after system crashes, unsuccessful restart or incorrect application update, this browser function may disappear, after which the question arises, how to restore visual bookmarks?
Fortunately, in order to do this, you do not need to install any add-ons on your computer or special programs- we will use standard Windows tools for recovery.
How to restore visual bookmarks in the browser?
- We launch the browser you are using on your computer in any convenient way - from the Start menu, from the desktop or from the Taskbar.
- In the upper service pane of the browser window, you need to open the "Bookmarks" menu and specify the "Show all bookmarks" section. The same can be done by pressing the key combination Ctrl + Shift + B. Thus, you will open the bookmark library dialog box - it is it that contains the tools we need.
- Next, click on the "Import and Backup" item, then select "Restore". The browser will offer options for how to restore visual bookmarks:
- from an archive copy;
- from file.
- We select the desired option, after which the bookmarks catalog should be displayed. If this did not happen, you must click on the "Select file" link and specify the full path to the desired file... The bookmarks dialog can now be closed. It should be noted here that the browser automatically backs up bookmarks once a day. The changes you made must be saved by confirming the replacement of existing bookmarks in the window that will open by the system.
In addition, you can restore visual bookmarks by selecting the Import from HTML link under Import and Checkout. This method only works if your visual bookmarks were previously saved in separate file in HTML format:
1) in the upper menu of the browser, select "Settings" and indicate "Advanced";
3) a dialog box will open in which you will need to select the "Extensions" tab;
4) here you will need to find and select the line of the required plugin, after which the visual bookmarks will be restored.
If you have lost visual bookmarks in Firefox, do not rush to complain and say goodbye to them forever. There are at least a couple of ways to put them back in place. In this article, you will learn how to restore saved links in Mozilla Firefox, as well as how to do backups bookmarks and then load them in the browser. Plus, you will learn some useful nuances of working with the magazine and links in FF.
How to recover?
Top panel
Have you disappeared URLs and folders with their collection from the top panel located under the main menu of your web browser? Then do the following:
1. Place the cursor at the top of the FF window that has no options (empty space).
2. Click the right mouse button.
3. In the list, click the right button to check the box next to the item "Bookmarks bar".
All previously saved and installed links should return to their place.
Thumbnail pictures in a blank tab
If the website addresses that are important to you are placed in the visual boxes under the search bar, you can fix them. This way, you will prevent them from accidentally disappearing. To perform this procedure, move the cursor to the upper left corner of the bookmark picture and click the “hairpin” that appears in it.
An accidentally deleted URL from the graphic blocks of an empty tab can be immediately returned to its place using the "Restore All" button. It will appear at the top right.
How to manually return bookmarks
Didn't the above “recipes” help to restore visual bookmarks? Then try the following:
- Make sure the bookmarks bar is enabled.
- Press the key combination - Ctrl + B.
- In the "Bookmarks" sidebar, click in turn the links that you want to move to the quick access panel.
- Then copy the URL from the address bar.
- Right-click in the panel area. Select "New bookmark" or "New folder" (to create a thematic collection of links).
- Fill in the copied address and title in the form.
Attention! If there is nothing in the side list (by pressing Ctrl + B), open the log of web resource visits (Ctrl + H) and try to find the necessary addresses in it to add to the visual interface.
Addons
If you used special extensions for managing bookmarks, but want to return the default settings (integrated thumbnails on the tab), then do this:
1. In the menu, click: Tools → Add-ons.
2. In the add-on column, click "Delete" or "Disable" (to temporarily deactivate).
3. Open the "Tools" section again and click "Options".
4. On the General tab, set the On Startup ... field to Show Windows and Tabs ... to have Firefox display recently opened websites.
To return the mini-link bars, in the "Home" option, place the command - yafd: tabs.
Additionally, you can use the "Restore by default" button. After activating it, Firefox will automatically perform a global reset of the parameters (they will take the values set immediately after the browser is installed).
Restore bookmarks from backups
There are several ways to save and load a file with a collection of bookmarks in the browser. Let's consider their implementation step by step.
Advice! This custom practice will help you in the future to always keep at hand the addresses of your favorite sites, online games and other web resources, not only on your personal PC, but also remotely - on other devices (mobile, tablet, other PC or laptop). In addition, you will save yourself the risk of losing your own collection of URLs as a result of a browser crash, virus attack, installation of an add-on or incorrect setting of options.
Method # 1: creating an HTML file
The list of links in a file with HTML format makes it possible to return them to the FF panel, as well as transfer them from one browser to another. For example, in this format, you can save the URL in Google chrome and then, through the standard options, place it in Firefox.
This is done like this:
1. Click the Three Stripes button at the top right.
2. In the drop-down tiled menu, click "Journal".
3. Under the list of links, click the "Show entire log" command.
4. In the "Library" window, left-click to open the "Import and backups" section.
5. In the drop-down block, select the item “Export bookmarks to HTML…. ".
6.In Windows Explorer specify the disk partition and folder where the copy of your bookmarks will be stored. For convenience, you can specify the date of saving in the file name.
Attention! Do not save a copy on the C drive, you may lose it as a result of a reinstallation of the system or a virus attack.
When you need a saved collection of links (for example, after installing Firefox, OS), follow these steps:
1. Press together - Ctrl + I.
2. Select the "Journal" section in the right block by clicking the mouse.
3. Click: Import and Backup ... (menu at the top of the window) → Import Bookmarks ...
4. In the system explorer window, specify the path to the HTML file with the URL. Click Open.
5. To check whether the restore has completed or not, press Ctrl + B. All links from the copy should appear in the sidebar.
Attention! If the export of bookmarks in HTML format was carried out from another browser, then FF they can be placed in separate folder with the same name (for example, Opera or Internet Explorer).
Method number 2: synchronization
This backup option allows you to store bookmarks remotely, on a special FF server, and, if necessary, load them into a browser installed on any device after providing your profile credentials.
To configure synchronization in FF, you need to follow these steps:
1. In the web browser menu, click: Tools → Options → Synchronization.
2. Click in the right block the option "Create account».
3. Enter the login (address) of your current mailbox.
4. Come up with strong password to enter the profile.
5. Click the blue "Create Account" button.
6. Log into the account of the specified mail. In the email from the Firefox service, click "Activate Now" to confirm your e-mail rights.
7. In the browser, in the "Select what to sync" panel, be sure to check the box next to the "Bookmarks" item. When you're done configuring sync, click Save Settings.
To restore links from a copy:
5. In the lower pane, select the line with the version of the FF distribution kit. Click Next.
6. In the "Save ..." column, specify the path to save the profile copy. Click "Next" again.
8. Indicate which items you want to reserve. Be sure to check Bookmarks so that your URLs will be placed in the file.
9. Click "Next".
To make a backup from a file, follow these steps in sequence:
1. Close Firefox, start MozBackup.
2. Set the "Restore ..." mode in the panel.
3. Click “Next” to start.
4. Specify the path to the file with the copy, run the restore option.
5. Open Firefox, all bookmarks should be in place.
Successful recovery of links in your browser!