# SO Focused

> Hides the "Hot Network Questions" sidebar on StackOverflow and related sites.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/so-focused](https://chrome-stats.com/d/so-focused)

## Overview

- **ID:** `so-focused`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** rcowsill
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2021-09-22
- **First published:** 2021-09-19
- **Size:** 21 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/so-focused/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/rcowsill/SO-Focused](https://github.com/rcowsill/SO-Focused)

## Description

SO Focused is a Firefox add-on that hides the 'Hot Network Questions' sidebar on StackOverflow and related sites. It works across the entire StackExchange network and uses CSS only, without any JavaScript.

## Rankings

- #126,087 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `*.stackoverflow.com`
- `*.stackexchange.com`
- `*.superuser.com`
- `*.serverfault.com`
- `*.askubuntu.com`
- `*.stackapps.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/so-focused)