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Written By userstyles on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | 3:07 AM

About this Add-on

A restart-less solution to manage custom User Styles in Firefox.
Add, edit, customize and choose from thousands of user styles available on net or even make your own.

Main features of User Styles Manager are :
  • Lightweight and restarless user styles manager
  • Edit an existing User Styles, Create a brand new User Style or choose an existing Style sheet from your Hard Disk and add it to Firefox
  • Editing, deleting of multiple Styles as once
  • Syntax highlighting, quick preview of Styles being edited and a syntax validator to check and display errors in the syntax of css.
  • Menu entry in Tools Menu and Apps Menu along with a toolbar button and a Customizable Shortcut Key to quickly access Options or to enable/disable any style
  • Select any css code on a webpage and add it as a style sheet using the context menu entry
  • Styles are automatically sorted based on the area they are applied on.
  • Styles are regularly backed up and used in case the original file is somehow deleted
  • A very powerful Style Editor with the following features:
    • CSS Auto-completer:CSS properties are automatically suggested as you type in a dropdown list
    • Color Previewer: Hover over any color code to quickly preview the color along with the transparency level
    • Image Previewer: Double click over the base64 image code or the link to the image to quickly preview the image
    • Color Picker: Easily pick and edit any color using the built in Color Picker. Start typing rgb( and the color picker will pop up for your help, or double click over any color code.
    • Minified styles can be made beautiful using the Beautify CSS option in the Edit Menu of the Editor.
    • Any style can be quickly previewed to see the result
    • Feature complete Find and Replace with support for Regular Expressions

Three userstyles included by default :
Please note while the above stylesheets are included by default, this add-on is about maintaining styles rather than the above 3 styles, and each of the above style can be deleted, edited or disabled.

Features being developed:
  • On adding files in User Styles folder in the Profile Directory, the addon will automatically install them on the next Firefox/addon's Restart, or explicitly on clicking a button.
  • Support , so as to download Style Sheets directly
  • support for updating of Style Sheets from userstyles.org (depends on the above feature)

Report issues or feature requests.

Ditched the ancient Stylish for USM Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I hated stylish when they redid their UI in version 1 and integrated with the horrible xul addons menu. Infact, I changed the unique ID in stylish 0.59 so that Firefox wouldn't bug me with updating stylish to version 1. I stayed with Firefox 3.6 as long as I could because I'm not advance enough to make stylish 0.59 to be compatible with Firefox 4+. Now that I started using Aurora, I couldn't avoid the new stylish ui.

But now that I just discovered this amazing stylish replacement, I will use this permanently. Even though it it's not compatible with the userscript.org website just yet. I'm sure the talented dev will figure it out eventually.

And did I mention the editor in this addon is miles ahead of stylish's ancient non-color coded? USM has other freebees too, like image preview, color picker, etc.

Very promising Rated 5 out of 5 stars

edit: This became a five star add-on with all reasons for being four (and a half:)) star being fixed and improved with version 0.9. USM is the new Stylish: Thanks a lot to the developer:)
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This is a nice addon and a lightweight alternative to Stylish. Not quite there yet, but keeps getting better, very promising. Thank you:)
In the latest version (v.0.8), the chevron of the toolbar icon (the little triangle to display options) is changed and put under the icon -- it was on the side of the icon. Please bring the old look back -chevron to the side- as the chevron adds an unnecessary height to the add-on toolbar (aka status bar) and also looks really bad - icon not being in line with the other icons, etc. Also, the toolbar icon constantly resets its location after firefox restarts.
Thanks again :)

Reply to the developer:
Dear Developer, with your continuous support you are already a 5+ star developer :) the four stars were only for the extension as of v. 0.8, mainly due to the interface issues and as you pointed out aptly, better integration with userstyles.org - I find this add-on really promising and a better future replacement for stylish, as it seems it is aspiring to be as such, based on your comments. As it is, ths add-on is already very useful, and promise 5 stars once this ui issue is fixed (this is not an accessibility issue though, I love to see the addons I like and that have nice icons on the toolbar if I can). For the add-on toolbar issue, however, I think it is more likely to be caused by one of your other excellent add-ons (location bar enhancer), sorry for confusing it here - I made a mention here now just FYI.
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