Chrome-Stats extension
Hacker News Comment Highlighter
Highlights unread comments in Hacker News threads
What is Hacker News Comment Highlighter?
Hacker News Comment Highlighter is a Chrome extension that keeps track of seen comments in a thread, highlighting new comments upon return to the page. Stay updated and easily read what's new in active threads.
Stats
Rating:
5.00
(1)
Creation date:
2015-08-06
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
- storage
Size:
13.46K
URLs:
Website
Stats date:
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Summary
This Chrome extension keeps track of which comments you've seen in a given Hacker News thread, and then highlights the new comments when you return to the page. This is useful when you are following an active thread and just want to read what's new.
This extension is open source. The source code is available at https://github.com/jbergknoff/hn-comment-highlighter.
User reviews
nice, I was going to code this, and then I googled it and found this, does perfectly what it says
by
abdallah alsamman, 2016-12-13
abdallah alsamman, 2016-12-13Safety
Risk impact
Hacker News Comment Highlighter is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Hacker News Comment Highlighter has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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