Hover Hound

See Amazon prices while shopping on Newegg.
What is Hover Hound?
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.

Extension stats

Users: 10,000+
Rating: 4.37 (113)
Version: 1.6.7 (Last updated: 2021-04-11)
Creation date: 2019-08-22
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 15.15K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Hover Hound adds a small button on Newegg product and search pages linking to the same product on Amazon. It displays the price and whether the item is Amazon Prime eligible. It's that simple!

This extension only works on newegg.com and only takes you from Newegg to Amazon, not the other way around. No bloat, no BS, no excessive permissions.

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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.
Recent reviews
Seems like this has been abandoned. Has not worked in some time, latest update was 2+ years ago.
by Tyler Fowle, 2023-08-18

It doesn't work
by 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.
by Robert Carpenter, 2020-07-31
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hover Hound requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hover Hound has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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