newsbar

Quickly jump to the HackerNews comments for an article.

newsbar - Quickly Jump to HackerNews Comments

newsbar is a Chrome extension that makes it easy to access and discover discussions on Hacker News. It allows you to quickly jump to the comments of an article from Chrome's omnibox, displaying the number of votes the article has received.
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Extension stats

Manifest V2
Users: 3
-2
Rating: 5.00
(1)
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2016-03-21)
Creation date: 2016-03-21
Permissions:
  • webNavigation
  • storage
  • http://hn.algolia.com/api/*
Size: 16.55K
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

Extension safety

Risk impact

newsbar requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of newsbar. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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