GitHub Real Names

Use real names on GitHub

GitHub Real Names - Chrome Extension for Personalized GitHub

"GitHub Real Names" is a unique Chrome extension designed to enhance your GitHub experience. It helps you to toggle between real names and usernames. This extension gives a touch of personalization and can greatly improve readability, especially when collaborating in larger teams.

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Extension stats

By: ForbesLindesay

Users: 544

Rating: 3.90

(10)

Version: 1.3.1 (Last updated: 2020-08-19)

Creation date: 2018-03-26

Size: 39.59K

Email: fo*****@lindesay.co.uk

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 37,698 ▲ 171

Other rankings

#7505 in Developer Tools ▲ 120 #163 in name keyword 8 ▼ 39

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Great for identifying GitHub users in open source and organizational contexts.
Helps bring personality back to users by displaying real names.
Maintainer is responsive and actively merges improvements.
Really helpful in organizations with many GitHub users.

Cons

Doesn't work (multiple reports of this issue).

Most mentioned

Doesn't work
Great extension
Really helpful

User reviews

doesn't work

Dominik Heidler, 2018-02-21

Doesn't work.

Milan Trenovszki, 2017-10-04

Great extension. Maintainer also promptly merged a PR after it was opened.

Anuj Biyani, 2016-03-01

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Extension safety

Risk impact

GitHub Real Names 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 GitHub Real Names. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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