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Stylish (software)
Stylish is a user style manager that can change the appearance of web pages in a user's browser without changing their content by including user-supplied CSS style sheets with those supplied by the web site itself. The Stylish browser extension includes tools with which to write user styles, and can install user styles written by other Stylish users from a companion website. These user styles may be more or less selective, targeting just one web page, or all of the pages on a domain, or every page on the web. Stylish was originally developed by Jason Barnabe as an XUL/XPCOM add-on for Mozilla Firefox. A Chrome extension followed in 2010, which was released for Blink-based Opera 15 in 2013 and as a Firefox WebExtension in 2017. Similar extensions for Safari and for Presto-based Opera are distributed as 'Stylish' by other developers with Barnabe's approval. Technical details User styles are CSS code designed to alter the appearance of one, some, or all sites. Stylish for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrome Web Store
Web Store is Google's online store for its Chrome web browser. As of 2024, Chrome Web Store hosts about 138,000 extensions and 33,000 themes. History Chrome Web Store was publicly unveiled in December 2010, and was opened on February 11, 2011, with the release of Google Chrome 9.0. A year later it was redesigned to "catalyze a big increase in traffic, across downloads, users, and total number of apps". As of June 2012, there were 750 million total installs of content hosted on Chrome Web Store. Some extension developers have sold their extensions to third-parties who then incorporated adware. In 2014, Google removed two such extensions from Chrome Web Store after many users complained about unwanted pop-up ads. The following year, Google acknowledged that about five percent of visits to its own websites had been altered by extensions with adware. Malware Malware Malware (a portmanteau of ''malicious software'')Tahir, R. (2018)A study on malware and malware detection te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ad Blocking
Ad blocking (or ad filtering) is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a History of the web browser, web browser, an Application software, application or a network. This may be done using browser extensions or other methods or browsers with inside blocking. History The first ad blocker was Internet Fast Forward, a Plug-in (computing), plugin for the Netscape Navigator browser, developed by PrivNet and released in 1996. The AdBlock extension for Firefox was developed in 2002, with Adblock Plus being released in 2006. uBlock Origin, originally called "uBlock", was first released in 2014. Technologies and native countermeasures Online advertising exists in a variety of forms, including web banners, Image, pictures, Animation, animations, embedded audio and video, text, or Pop-up ad, pop-up windows, and can even employ audio and video Auto-Play, autoplay. Many browsers offer some ways to remove or alter advertisements: either by targeting technologie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampermonkey
Tampermonkey is a closed-source donationware userscript manager that is available as a browser extension. This software enables the user to add and use userscripts, which are JavaScript programs that can be used to modify web pages. History Tampermonkey was first created in May 2010 by Jan Biniok. It first emerged as a Greasemonkey userscript that was wrapped to support Google Chrome. Eventually the code was re-used and published as a standalone extension for Chrome which had more features than Chrome's native script support. In 2011, Tampermonkey was ported to Android (operating system), Android, enabling users to use userscripts on Android's internal browser. In Jan 2013, after the publication of version 2.9, Jan Biniok decided to change Tampermonkey from open source (GPLv3) to closed source (proprietary). By 2019, Tampermonkey had over 10 million users. By 2022 Tampermonkey was one of 33 extensions on the Chrome Web Store to have at least 10 million users. Chrome manifest V3 I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a userscript manager made available as a Mozilla Firefox extension. It enables users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web page content after or before the page is loaded in the browser (also known as augmented browsing). The changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is viewed, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script. Greasemonkey can be used for customizing page appearance, adding new functions to web pages (for example, embedding price comparisons within shopping sites), fixing rendering bugs, combining data from multiple web pages, and numerous other purposes. History The Greasemonkey project began 28 November 2004, written by Aaron Boodman. Boodman was inspired to write Greasemonkey after looking at a Firefox extension designed to clean up the interface of AllMusic, written by Adrian Holovaty, who later became a userscript developer. By May 2005, there were approximately 60 general and 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Userscript Manager
A userscript manager, also known as a userscript engine, is a type of browser extension and augmented browsing technology that provides a user interface to run and organize userscripts. The main purpose of a userscript manager is to execute scripts on predetermined webpages as they are loaded, for example, running a userscript to modify only youtube.com pages. But, userscript managers do a lot more than execute scripts, and screen for the pages they are intended to run on. The most common operations performed by a userscript manager include installing, organizing, creating, copying, saving, deleting, and editing (including modifying webpage permissions of) userscripts. Userscript managers use metadata that is embedded in a script's source code primarily to determine the websites it should execute on and the dependencies necessary for the script to run properly. Metadata can also include information that is useful to the user such as the script's name, author, description and ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stylus (browser Extension)
Stylus is a user style manager, a browser extension for changing the look and feel of pages. Have inline search of styles frouserstyles.world History Stylus was forked from Stylish for Chrome in 2017 after Stylish was bought by the analytics company SimilarWeb. The initial objective was to "remove any and all analytics, and return to a more user-friendly UI." It restored the user interface of Stylish 1.5.2 and removed Google Analytics. In 2024, Stylus may have been removed from the Chrome Web Store in accordance with new policies preventing Manifest V2 extensions if it had not been updated to Manifest V3. Later that year, it was updated to be based on Manifest V3 on the Chrome Web Store, but its Firefox's version remains under Manifest V2. Reception Martin Brinkmann reported in May 2017 that "Stylus works as expected". As of December 2020, Stylus had more than 400,000 users on Google Chrome and nearly 70,000 users on Firefox. At that same time, it had an average rating of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleeping Computer
''Bleeping Computer'' is a website covering technology news and offering free computer help via its forums that was created by Lawrence Abrams in 2004. It publishes news focusing heavily on cybersecurity, but also covers other topics including computer software, computer hardware, operating system and general technology. In 2018, ''Bleeping Computer'' was added as an associate partner to the Europol NoMoreRansom project for the ransomware information and decryption tools provided by the site. History ''BleepingComputer'' was founded in 2004 after Abrams could not find existing technical support sites that could offer easy-to-understand instructions for his friends and family. The domain name bleepingcomputer.com originates from the sounds made by a broken computer and because a user might want to curse at a computer when it does not work properly. Since the CryptoLocker ransomware attack in September 2013, and a subsequent DDoS of the site due to its reporting on the new ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Condé Nast
Condé Nast () is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Nast (businessman), Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications. Its headquarters are located at One World Trade Center in the FiDi, Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The company's media brands attract more than 72 million consumers in print, 394 million in digital and 454 million across social media platforms. These include ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Condé Nast Traveler'', ''Condé Nast Traveller'', ''GQ'', ''Glamour (magazine), Glamour'', ''Architectural Digest'', ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair, Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork'', ''Wired (magazine), Wired'', ''Bon Appétit'', and ''Ars Technica'', among many others. U.S. ''Vogue'' editor-in-chief Anna Wintour serves as Artistic Director and Global Chief Content Officer. In 2011, the company launched the Condé Nast Entertainment division, tasked with developing film, television, social and digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ars Technica
''Ars Technica'' is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games. ''Ars Technica'' was privately owned until May 2008, when it was sold to Condé Nast Digital, the online division of Condé Nast Publications. Condé Nast purchased the site, along with two others, for $25 million and added it to the company's ''Wired'' Digital group, which also includes '' Wired'' and, formerly, Reddit. The staff mostly works from home and has offices in Boston, Chicago, London, New York City, and San Francisco. The operations of ''Ars Technica'' are funded primarily by advertising, and it has offered a paid subscription service since 2001. History Ken Fisher, who serves as the website's current editor-in-chief, and Jon Stokes created ''Ars Technica'' in 1998. Its purpose was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mozilla Add-ons
For Mozilla software, an add-on is a software component that extends the functionality of the Firefox web browser and related applications although most are browser extensions. Mozilla provides add-ons to users via its official add-on website. In 2017, Mozilla enacted major changes to the application programming interface (API) for extensions in Firefox, replacing the long-standing XPCOM-based add-on APIs with the WebExtensions API that is modeled after Google Chrome's API. Thus add-ons that remain compatible with Firefox are now largely compatible with Chrome as well. As of January 2024, there are more than 36,000 add-ons and over 495,000 themes available for Firefox. Add-ons categories Themes Early versions of Firefox supported themes that could greatly change the appearance of the browser, but this was scaled back over time. Current themes are limited to changing the background and text color of toolbars, formerly called ''personas'', now called ''Firefox Themes''. WebExten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IndexedDB
The Indexed Database API (commonly referred to as IndexedDB) is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) provided by web browsers for managing a NoSQL database of objects. It is a standard maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). As an alternative to the Web storage standard, IndexedDB can provide more storage capacity. Web storage has fixed limits per website, but IndexedDB limits are "usually quite large, if they exist at all". Use cases for IndexedDB include caching web application data for offline availability. Some browser modules, such as devtools or extensions, may also use it for storage. History Support for IndexedDB was added to Firefox version 4, Google Chrome version 11, Internet Explorer version 10, Safari version 8, and Microsoft Edge version 12. Web SQL Database was a prior API developed by Apple. But Firefox refused to add support for it and argued against it becoming a standard because it would codify the quirks of SQLite. It was thus de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
