Hacker News New Tab

Hacker News New Tab

Open Hacker News Links in new tab

What is Hacker News New Tab?
Hacker News New Tab is a Chrome extension that updates Hacker News links to open in new tabs, providing a convenient browsing experience for users.
Stats
By: akhil
Users: 86 ▼ -6
Rating: 4.00 (5)
Version: 2.0 (Last updated: 2016-05-27)
Creation date: 2016-05-27
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 6.80K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/news) links usually open in the same page. This extension updates the links to open in a new tab.

User reviews
Links still don't open in new tabs
by Nick DeSteffen Nick DeSteffen, 2013-06-24

Great extension, perhaps an option to open a new tab but not view that tab?
by Matthew Power Matthew Power, 2013-01-07

I really like this extension, it does what it says it does, and does it pretty well. However it is somewhat annoying that it does not work on hackerne.ws which I have bookmarked.
by Chris Foytek Chris Foytek, 2012-07-13
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Safety
Risk impact

Hacker News New Tab is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hacker News New Tab has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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