# Hackertab – Dev News & GitHub in New Tab

> Developer news from GitHub Trending, Hacker News, and more, all in your new tab.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hackertab-dev`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Mehdi Sakout
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,tabs
- **Daily users:** 258
- **Weekly downloads:** 10
- **Rating:** 4.92 / 5 (61 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.26.13
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-01
- **First published:** 2021-02-13
- **Size:** 631 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hackertab-dev/)
- **Website:** [https://hackertab.dev](https://hackertab.dev/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hackertab-dev/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hackertab-dev/privacy/)

## Description

Hackertab turns your new tab into a smart developer feed, surfacing top content from GitHub Trending, Hacker News, Dev.to, Medium, and Reddit. It updates hourly, uses AI to surface what matters, and lets you tailor by language, framework, or topic. You can also add RSS feeds, bookmark articles, read later, and enjoy a dark mode. It includes a fast search bar and is designed for developers, not general news.

Privacy is built-in: no tracking, no selling of data, and open source. Lightweight, fast, and open for contributions on GitHub. Install Hackertab and transform every new tab into a focused dev dashboard.

## Rankings

- #7,261 — Overall
- #20 — trend
- #21 — news
- #29 — github
- #37 — hacker
- #49 — new tab

## Permissions and access

### Host permissions

- `https://*.hackertab.dev/*`

### Content script matches

- `hackertab.dev`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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/hackertab-dev)