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| Original author(s) | Jason Barnabe |
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| Developer(s) | Stylus Team |
| Initial release | 2017 |
| Repository | https://github.com/openstyles/stylus |
| License | GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) |
| Website | https://add0n.com/stylus.html |
Stylus is a user style manager, a browser extension for changing the look and feel of pages.
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]
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]
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