# Hacker News Comment Collapse

> Adds a collapse/expand button to comments on Hacker News.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/hacker-news-comment-collapse](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hacker-news-comment-collapse)

## Overview

- **ID:** `hacker-news-comment-collapse`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Brian Steffens
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,appearance
- **Daily users:** 8
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2016-04-06
- **Size:** 8.35 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hacker-news-comment-collapse/)

## Description

Hacker News Comment Collapse is a Firefox add-on that enhances the browsing experience on Hacker News by adding a Reddit-style collapse/expand button to comments and their sub-comments, enabling users to easily hide or reveal them.

## Rankings

- #36,088 — Overall
- #67 — hacker
- #80 — comment
- #174 — news
- #179 — expand

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `news.ycombinator.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hacker-news-comment-collapse)