# HN Comment Saver

> Save, tag, annotate, and search Hacker News comments. Self-contained Firefox extension. Local-only, full-text search, highlights nad notes, auto-backups.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/hn-comment-saver](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hn-comment-saver)

## Overview

- **ID:** `hn-comment-saver`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** overflowy
- **Category:** social-communication
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-16
- **First published:** 2026-07-13
- **Size:** 59 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hn-comment-saver/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/overflowy/hn-comment-saver](https://github.com/overflowy/hn-comment-saver)

## Description

A self-contained Firefox extension that saves Hacker News comments locally, lets you tag them, and finds them again with proper full-text search: token matching with prefix + word-level typo tolerance, BM25-style ranking, exact-phrase support, and match highlighting.

## Rankings

- #134,102 — Overall
- #240 — comment

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `downloads`
- `alarms`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `*://news.ycombinator.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `news.ycombinator.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High 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/hn-comment-saver)