# HackerNews2Bookmarks

> Keep all your upvoted and/or submitted links from Hacker News as local bookmarks in your browser. Optionally also scraps links from your upvoted and/or submitted comments into your bookmarks.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/hackernews2bookmarks](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hackernews2bookmarks)

## Overview

- **ID:** `hackernews2bookmarks`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** olvy
- **Category:** bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Last updated:** 2022-05-24
- **First published:** 2022-05-23
- **Size:** 28 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hackernews2bookmarks/)

## Description

HackerNews2Bookmarks is a small open-source Firefox add-on that allows you to easily save your upvoted and/or submitted links from Hacker News as local bookmarks in your browser. Additionally, it offers the option to extract links from your comments and add them to your bookmarks. The add-on doesn't require your username and password, and it implements a backoff algorithm to avoid excessive requests to the Hacker News server. You simply need to be signed in to Hacker News and have the current tab in the browser on a Hacker News page to start using the add-on.

## Rankings

- #108,100 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `bookmarks`
- `storage`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Access to bookmarks may provide insights into user preferences and interests but generally carries low 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/hackernews2bookmarks)