Comments Owl for Hacker News

Highlight new comments, mute users, and other tweaks for Hacker News

Comments Owl: Highlight Comments on Hacker News

Comments Owl for Hacker News is a browser extension that enhances your experience on Hacker News. It allows you to easily follow comment threads, highlights new comments, mute users, and provides other UI and UX tweaks.
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Extension stats

Manifest V3
Users: 100
2
Rating: 4.00
(1)
Version: 3.0.0 (Last updated: 2025-01-02)
Creation date: 2019-08-17
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • storage
Size: 48.21K
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Comments Owl for Hacker News (v3.0.0)
67 5.00 (2)
Not available on Edge

Extension safety

Risk impact

Comments Owl for Hacker News requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
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