Hacker Tab

Replace browser new tab screen with GitHub trending projects.

What is Hacker Tab?

Hacker Tab is a Chrome extension that replaces your browser's new tab screen with GitHub trending projects. It features dark mode, customizable language preferences, and options to view trending projects daily, weekly, or monthly.

Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-06-29 due to Chrome Web Store policy violation

By: Hu Chen

Users: 2,000+

Rating: 4.24 (17)

Version: 1.10.0 (Last updated: 2020-06-21)

Creation date: 2020-06-21

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very high risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Overrides new tab: Yes

Permissions:

storage
alarms

Size: 2.52M

Email: ch*****@huchen.me

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

Want to check extension ranking and stats more quickly for other Chrome extensions? Install Chrome-Stats extension to view Chrome-Stats data as you browse the Chrome Web Store.

Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Also on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hacker-tab

Features:

• GitHub trending projects • Dark Mode • Change your favourite language and spoken language (e.g. English) • Change from trending daily, weekly or monthly • Load repositories in background • I'm feeling lucky to show a random project

If you want to keep up to date with currently development, checkout https://github.com/huchenme/hacker-tab-extension

User reviews

not working ```It seems there are some issues while loading data```

by

Geralt, 2022-05-12

Doesn't work. Hasn't been updated since June 2020. No reply to support requests. If anything changes I will update this review.

by

James Douglas, 2022-04-03

super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by

Alexander Rizescu, 2021-05-17

View all user reviews

Extension safety

Risk impact

Hacker Tab requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hacker Tab is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

Upgrade to see risk analysis details

Hacker Tab marquee promo image — Marquee promo image

Hacker Tab small promo image — Small promo image

Similar extensions

Here are some Chrome extensions that are similar to Hacker Tab:

Hackers toolkit

https://codelab.rs

Hackertab.dev - developer news

https://hackertab.dev

daily.dev | The homepage developers deserve

https://daily.dev

https://stalkers.pk

Octotree - GitHub code tree

https://octotree.io

https://initab.com

http://roadmap.sh

QuickCode - Free Online Programming Courses

Github Trending New Tab

30 Seconds of Knowledge

https://petrovicstefan.rs

Hacker Tab (unofficial)

https://visbug.web.app

https://octolinker.vercel.app

File Icons for GitHub and GitLab

Ludovic COULON & Riadh BOUCHAHOUA

OWASP Penetration Testing Kit

https://pentestkit.co.uk

GitHub Hovercard

https://justineo.github.io/github-hovercard

Enhanced GitHub

Domenico Gemoli

HackNotice Chrome Extension

https://hacknotice.com

fatemarebanotun