Hacker News Enhancement Suite
Hacker News Enhanced.
Hacker News Enhancement Suite - A Firefox Add-On
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.
Add-on stats
Manifest V2
By: Chris James
Rating: 4.53 
(34)
Weekly download count: 5
Firefox on Android: Yes
Permissions:
- storage
- unlimitedStorage
Size: 83.39K
Email: hn*****@etcet.net
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description
Ranking
Other platforms
Not available on Android
Not available on Edge
User reviews
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Improved UI that enhances user experience
- Additional tweaks empower the end-user
- No apparent loss of performance
Cons
- Addon appears disabled and greyed out for some users
- Comment pagination is broken in Firefox
- Inability to disable certain features, such as forced smooth scrolling
Most mentioned
- Issues with functionalities on Firefox
- UI and performance enhancements
- Customization limitations
User reviews
by 天灭中共退党团队保平安, 2025-02-21
The addon appears disabled (greyed out) for me on Firefox, so there's no customization available. But it does appear to be working.
by MaximilianKohler, 2024-10-01
by artwis, 2024-08-22
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Hacker News Enhancement Suite 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
We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Hacker News Enhancement Suite. Use it at your own risk.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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