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.
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)
Creation date:
2020-06-21
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Very high risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Overrides new tab:
Yes
Permissions:
Size:
2.52M
Email:
ch*****@huchen.me
URLs:
Website
,Privacy policy
Stats date:
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Summary
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
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Safety
Risk impact
Hacker Tab is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Hacker Tab is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.
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