# Bounded Bikeshed

> Focus on the comments you find most interesting.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/bounded-bikeshed](https://chrome-stats.com/d/bounded-bikeshed)

## Overview

- **ID:** `bounded-bikeshed`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tim Kuijsten
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.8.2
- **Last updated:** 2024-02-12
- **First published:** 2023-08-10
- **Size:** 60 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bounded-bikeshed/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/timkuijsten/BoundedBikeshed](https://github.com/timkuijsten/BoundedBikeshed)

## Description

Save time and go through a discussion breadth-first instead of depth-first. This avoids automatically getting caught by long threads and gives you an overview of different comments on a topic so that you can dive into the ones you find most interesting, for only as deep as you want.

Supports:
* <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/45824b46c6e39a349b3dacb7f21940e03f060bb293656ab5fa87d4ff72b55fea/https%3A//news.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">Hacker News</a>
* <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/b4bb007d19449bdc416b2add2d19b4a39c858409db353400596a2a209cde4dc6/https%3A//lobste.rs/" rel="nofollow">Lobsters</a>
* <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/b7f6b27b72290f298bed4f9977b31b5d4718a2aff1bd68c899e1c693cff8333b/https%3A//tweakers.net/" rel="nofollow">Tweakers</a>

<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/5b9de10d10f096ea28d87ba4ef5d10453c6035ac80472f5ce30da2bda23e539f/https%3A//en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding%23English" rel="nofollow">bikeshedding</a> <em>noun</em>
  : futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues

## Rankings

- #47,656 — Overall
- #226 — interest

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `news.ycombinator.com`
- `lobste.rs`
- `tweakers.net`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/bounded-bikeshed)