# Hacker News Link + Comments

> Add a button to open both the link and the comments section in separate tabs on Hacker News. This addon is open source.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hacker-news-link-comments`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Patrick Kage
- **Category:** social-communication,tabs
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 2.2.1
- **Last updated:** 2022-09-28
- **First published:** 2019-01-27
- **Size:** 1.80 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hacker-news-link-comments/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/pkage/hackernewslc](https://github.com/pkage/hackernewslc)

## Description

Hacker News Link + Comments is an open-source Firefox add-on that provides a button to easily open the link and comments section of a Hacker News post in separate tabs. Similar to Reddit Enhancement Suite, this addon enhances the browsing experience on Hacker News.

## Rankings

- #117,746 — Overall
- #180 — hacker

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `news.ycombinator.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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-link-comments)