Hacker News Reader

I've used the Hacker News Enhancement Suite for the past few years and thought it did just enough things to make the site a tad more usable without going overboard:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

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I'd consider HNES's highlighting of new comments to be nearly essential to reading HN. I don't understand how others can follow long discussions without any indication of what comments have been posted since a previous viewing or refresh. And it doesn't seem to me like it would be a difficult feature to add.

I've been making the switch from Chrome to Firefox over the past month, and HNES is the one thing I truly miss that I haven't found a good replacement for.

I use the "Chrome Store Foxified" extension which lets you install some Chrome plugins including HNES.

This ought to be the kind of simple extension that Firefox's ongoing migration to Web Extensions will allow to be plugged in and used.

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