Hover Hound

See Amazon prices while shopping on Newegg.

Hover Hound: Newegg to Amazon Price Compare Extension

Hover Hound is a highly efficient Chrome extension specifically designed to enhance your shopping experience on Newegg. It adds a tiny button leading you directly to the corresponding product on Amazon showing its price and availability for Amazon Prime members. This tool only functions with newegg.com, guiding you from Newegg to Amazon, saving your time by instantly comparing prices for you without demanding any excessive permissions or adding unnecessary bloat.

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Extension stats

By: https://pchound.com

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.37

(113)

Version: 1.6.7 (Last updated: 2021-04-11)

Creation date: 2019-08-22

Size: 15.15K

Email: ad*****@pchound.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 7,477 ▲ 65

Other rankings

#889 in Shopping ▲ 87 #9 in hover keyword 12 ▼ 2

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

One of the most useful extensions in the store.
Works great and saves me cash.
Real time saver for comparing prices.
Handy for price matching.

Cons

Extension appears to be abandoned and has not worked in some time.
Price history chart does not function properly.
Detected adware from installation files.
Consistently gives maintenance errors.

Most mentioned

Extension not updated or abandoned.
Reported issues with price history.
Adware concerns.
Maintenance errors.
Positive feedback on usefulness.

User reviews

Seems like this has been abandoned. Has not worked in some time, latest update was 2+ years ago.

Tyler Fowle, 2023-08-18

It doesn't work

Jerry Drewett, 2021-01-05

It doesn't look like this extension is being updated anymore. Too bad since it was great back in the days.

Robert Carpenter, 2020-07-31

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hover Hound 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 Hover Hound. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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