Hacker News Colors

Makes Hacker News easier to read by adding a bit of color to every story, based on points.
Hacker News Colors is a Firefox add-on that adds colored bars to each news listing on Hacker News. The color represents the popularity of the news based on points, making it easier to identify popular articles even if they have moved down the list.
Manifest V2
By: onli
Daily users: 21
1
Rating: 5.00
(1)
Version: 0.4.1resigned1 (Last updated: 2024-04-25)
Version code: 5726218
Creation date: 2014-03-06
Firefox on Android: No
Size: 28.56K
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description
Updated: a day ago

Add-on safety

Risk impact
Low risk impact

Hacker News Colors requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood
Low risk likelihood

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

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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