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Stylus

(1,140 reviews)
700,000 users
Updated March 12, 2025
productivity/developerchromeVersion 2.3.14
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Description

Redesign the web with Stylus, a user styles manager. Stylus allows you to easily install themes and skins for many popular sites.

Extension Rankings

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Ranking Summary

#544

Overall Rank

#513

Extension Rank

#112

"Browser Extension" Keyword

#142

"Browser History" Keyword

#114

"Browser Settings" Keyword

#249

"Wiki" Keyword

#135

"Website Usage." Keyword

#135

"Website Usage" Keyword

#146

"Website" Keyword

#88

"Web Page" Keyword

#82

"Web" Keyword

#24

"Tutorial" Keyword

#259

"Theme" Keyword

#32

"Source Code" Keyword

#11

"Style" Keyword

#5

"Store" Keyword

#66

"Sheets Extension" Keyword

#48

"Sheets Erweiterung" Keyword

#124

"Source" Keyword

#210

"Page" Keyword

#43

"Permissions" Keyword

#26

"Permission" Keyword

#21

"Install" Keyword

#103

"Google Search" Keyword

#52

"Google Chrome" Keyword

#118

"Google" Keyword

#157

"Full Page" Keyword

#41

"Extension" Keyword

#38

"Documentation" Keyword

#26

"Details" Keyword

#57

"Chrome Extension" Keyword

#105

"Chrome Browser" Keyword

#21

"Chrome" Keyword

#78

"Data Privacy" Keyword

#261

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Growth Metrics

Weekly Changes

Users:
700,0000%
Rating:
4.50.19%
Reviews:
1,1400.26%
No daily change data available

Review Summary

Users find Stylus extremely useful for customizing website styles, fixing design flaws, and hiding unwanted elements. It supports various sites and is easy to manage. However, many reviews report recurring bugs such as CSS styles not applying properly, frequent crashes, and sync issues. Additionally, migration problems related to Chrome extension manifest updates have caused the extension to be disabled for some users. Despite these drawbacks, the extension remains popular due to its powerful customization capabilities.

Pros

  • Highly useful for customizing website appearances by injecting custom CSS, fixing poor web designs, and modifying page elements according to user preference.
  • Easy to use for managing user styles with a straightforward interface, allowing import/export and style toggling.
  • Supports customization for various websites including YouTube, Amazon Prime subtitles, and others, showing versatility.
  • Appreciated by users for enabling functionality such as hiding unwanted popups and improving site usability.
  • Generally liked for making browsing visually and functionally better, described as fantastic and amazing by multiple users.

Cons

  • Frequent issues with styles not being applied or turning off unexpectedly, requiring users to toggle styles off and on or reload the page.
  • Crashes and freezes reported regularly, causing inconvenience though users tolerate due to the extension's usefulness.
  • Problems syncing styles to Google Drive or cloud storage, with sync processes sometimes not completing.
  • Manifest V2 to V3 migration issues leading to disabling of the extension by Chrome, rendering it unusable for some users.
  • Lack of shadow DOM support limiting the ability to style certain modern web components, like comment boxes using shadow roots.

Permissions

This extension can:

  • alarms
  • contextMenus
  • declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
  • identity
  • idle
  • offscreen
  • scripting
  • storage
  • tabs
  • unlimitedStorage
  • webNavigation
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking

This extension can access:

  • <all_urls>

Additional Information

Version

2.3.14

Updated

March 12, 2025

Size

1.04 MB

Languages

deenen-GBfrnlvitrdaeteses-419itlvhuplpt-BRpt-PTrofisvcselsrbgruukiwfatearzh-CNzh-TWjako

Developer Information

Authorstylus.openstyles
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