# Hacker News Tab

> Displays Hacker News Posts on new tab

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hacker-news-tab`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Zaid Fadhil
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,tabs
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-11
- **First published:** 2023-06-10
- **Size:** 49 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hacker-news-tab/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/zaidfadhil/hn-tab-extension](https://github.com/zaidfadhil/hn-tab-extension)

## Description

Hacker News Tab is an open-source Firefox add-on that displays a list of top stories from Hacker News on every new tab. Each story includes the title, score, and author information. Clicking on a story title opens the corresponding link in a new tab. Data is fetched from the Hacker News API and cached for improved performance.

## Rankings

- #130,281 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Can alter new tab settings; fairly benign but with some capability to affect user experience.
- 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-tab)