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Hacker News Enhancement Suite

Hacker News Enhancement Suite

Hacker News Enhanced.

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What is Hacker News Enhancement Suite?

The 'Hacker News Enhancement Suite' is a Firefox Add-On, upgrading user interface and interactivity on the Hacker News platform. It introduces a fresh style, enables access to all pages, enhances comment threads, and showcases new comments since the last view. The extension also offers improved interaction with upvoted users, clickable links in self posts, user profiles, and includes keyboard controls for an efficient browsing experience.

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Users: 747 ▼ -3
Rating: 4.52 (31)
Version: 1.6.0.3 (Last updated: 2023-01-01)
Creation date: 2017-11-16
Weekly download count: 4
Firefox on Android: Yes
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 83.39K
Email: Click to see
URLs: Website
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

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# 3520 ▼ 20
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Hacker News UX
Hacker News UX (v2.0.3)
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Summary
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Hacker News Enhancement Suite

A Hacker News extension for Firefox which changes lots of things.

Features

  • Completely new style
  • Easy access to all pages
  • Enhanced comment threads
    • Collapsible comments
    • Inline commenting
    • Link to parent
    • Display all comments on paginated threads
    • Highlight the original poster
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User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Nice suite but doesn't work well with paginated threads
  • I'm a big fan of HN's classic, no-frills, design. Did not think it could be improved but I was wrong. The UI is eye-pleasing, the additional tweaks empower the end-user.
  • All of this is accomplished without any apparent loss of performance. Nice job, dev! Looking forward to updates.
  • Bein sehr zufrieden.
  • Tight Code.
  • super
Cons
  • Inability to disable certain features renders this addon unusable. Forced smooth scrolling is just bad.
  • Comment pagination (?p=2) is broken in firefox only.
Most mentioned
  • Nice suite but doesn't work well with paginated threads
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Safety
Risk impact

Hacker News Enhancement Suite is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Hacker News Enhancement Suite if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Hacker News Enhancement Suite has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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