Stylus Paper Firefox

Stylus Paper

Use your tablet and stylus to draw over any web page content. The drawn content scrolls with the page which is under it.

Features & Capabilities

This addon, when enabled, overlays the largest scrollable area with a transparent drawable surface. This surface area can then be painted with variable width stroke using a stylus pressure.

The paintable surface is anchored on the content that it overlays. This implies that any drawing will scroll with the page that it overlays.

The paint/navigation mode can be toggled on/off, which let you access elements of the content for following links, or interacting with the web site.

Features:

  • Stylus Pressure: When drawing, the added 'ink' will change width based on the pressure of a stylus.
  • Scrollable: Objects which are drawn will follow the overlayed content.

Keyboard Shortcuts:

  • Ctrl-Z : Undo the last paint action.
  • Ctrl-Shift-Z : Redo the last undone actions.
  • Ctrl-X : Toggle between navigation and Draw mode.

Permissions: This addon requires some permissions from the user to behave as expected. The following is the list of permissions requested from the user, and why they are requested:

  • activeTabs: This permission is used to enable this addon only on the current tab. When the addon is enabled, the current tab is intrumented to add a drawing surface. The instrumented active tabs does not communicate back to the extension, nor does it creates extra network trafic.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V2 Add-on
By:
Nicolas B. Pierron
Daily users:
27 1
Rating:
2.67
(3)
Version:
0.1.0 Last updated: 2021-10-21
Version code:
5312491
Creation date:
2021-10-21
Risk:
Very low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:
Size:
25.95KB
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-07
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Nicolas B. Pierron
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylus-paper/
Website:
https://github.com/nbp/stylus-paper/issues

User Reviews

Since I have been using an active pen in Windows for 22 years, this extension looks like a Godsend! Unfortunately I cannot seem to get it to do what it's supposed to do. Basically, while the mouse draws fine, the stylus, like the finger, scrolls the page while drawing, which conflicts. Might have to do with FF gestures settings. Also, it seems that the required permission needs to be given once at a time, at least that's what the FF extension button displays. Lastly, pinning the icon doesn't seem to serve a purpose; could it act as a toggle? ctrl-x is fine but you need a keyboard... The stylus is my keyboard. I mapped a mouse button to the shortcut. In any case, I want to encourage the author with this fascinating project. Cheers.
by ar*****, 2024-10-16

Using Firefox on KDE plasma (Wayland, Fedora 39 x86_64). Nothing happens :(
by Ku*****, 2024-03-31
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Is Stylus Paper Safe?

Risk impact
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Stylus Paper does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
Risk likelihood
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Stylus Paper is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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