Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch

Miscellaneous client-side fixes for bugs on Stack Exchange sites
What is Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch?
Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch is a Chrome extension that provides client-side bug fixes, work-arounds, and usability improvements for Stack Overflow and other Q&A sites on the Stack Exchange Network. It aims to fix minor problems and omissions that the SE developers may have overlooked.

Extension stats

Users: 40
Version: 1.56.2 (Last updated: 2019-10-04)
Creation date: 2019-10-03
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 52.51K

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Extension summary

The Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch (SOUP) is a project to collect various minor client-side bug fixes, work-arounds and usability improvements for Stack Overflow and other Q&A sites on the Stack Exchange Network into a single user script. Now, for your convenience, these improvements are also available as a Chrome extension!

The intent of SOUP is not to make any substantial or controversial changes to the Stack Exchange user interface, but to fix minor problems and omissions that the SE developers have overlooked or haven't got around to fixing yet. By combining these minor patches into a single user script, they become easier to install and maintain.

See the linked Stack Apps page (and the Github project) for more information on the specific fixes included in SOUP.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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