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.
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By:
akhil
Rating:
4.00
(5)
Creation date:
2016-05-27
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Size:
6.80K
Email:
ak*****@gmail.com
URLs:
Website
Stats date:
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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
Great extension, perhaps an option to open a new tab but not view that tab?
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.
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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