Autobahn

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Autobahn Chrome Extension | Save Time on Hacker News

Autobahn is a new Google Chrome extension for Hacker News users that provides features like story filtering by domain name, user profile popovers, and clickable links for emails and URLs. It also normalizes and makes clickable Twitter profiles, shows photos for Twitter users, and offers options to customize filtering and display settings.
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Extension stats

Users: 25
3
Rating: 4.00
(1)
Version: 0.1 (Last updated: 2012-07-04)
Creation date: 2012-07-03
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Size: 59.03K
URLs: Website

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Autobahn is a new Google Chrome extension for Hacker News users by Vlad Yazhbin (@vla on Twitter). Save time on Hacker News!

Official web site: http://vlad.github.com/autobahn

Features at launch, version 0.1 (July 3):

  • Ban stories by domain name
  • View user profiles in a popover
  • Links to comments and submissions in the popover
  • E-mails and urls in profiles are clickable
  • Twitter profile links and handles are normalized and clickable
  • Follow button shown for twitter users
  • Photo shown for twitter users
  • Enable or disable story filtering in the Options panel
  • Configure domains names to ban in the Options panel
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Autobahn requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Autobahn is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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