Stylus (browser extension)

Stylus is a user style manager, a browser extension for changing the look and feel of pages.

Stylus
Original author(s)Jason Barnabe
Developer(s)Stylus Team
Initial release2017
Repositoryhttps://github.com/openstyles/stylus
LicenseGNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)
Websitehttps://add0n.com/stylus.html

History

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Stylus was forked from Stylish for Chrome in 2017[1][2] after Stylish was bought by the analytics company SimilarWeb.[3] The initial objective was to "remove any and all analytics, and return to a more user-friendly UI."[4] It restored the user interface of Stylish 1.5.2[5][2] and removed Google Analytics.[1][2]

In 2024, Stylus may be removed from the Chrome Web Store in accordance to new policies preventing Manifest V2 extensions, if they do not update to Manifest V3.

Reception

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Martin Brinkmann reported in May 2017 that "Stylus works as expected".[2] As of December 2020, Stylus had more than 400,000 users on Google Chrome and nearly 70,000 users on Firefox.[6][7] At that same time, it had an average rating of 4.6 stars on the Chrome Web Store and 4.5 stars on Firefox Add-ons.[6][7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "GitHub - openstyles/stylus at 458daf0836c00be329b47522906d10fd449ff6b4". Github. January 8, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d "Stylus is a Stylish fork without analytics - gHacks Tech News". www.ghacks.net. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  3. ^ "Announcement to the Community". forum.userstyles.org. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  4. ^ "Stylus". add0n.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2020-03-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ "stylus/manifest.json at 458daf0836c00be329b47522906d10fd449ff6b4 · openstyles/stylus · GitHub". Github. Jan 8, 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Stylus". chrome.google.com. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  7. ^ a b "Stylus – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)". addons.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
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