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This brings me back to olden days of reddit! RES + Imagus was perfect for killing an afternoon. Looking back it was super unhealthy. Just a constant stream of content messed up my patience something fierce. But it was fun while it lasted.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hnes/

Unfortunately it doesn't update anymore, not before adding a option page at least.

All the features still work, but I really want to turn of some (like the new style).

Any similar solutions like this for Safari?

Looks great except that it needs access to your browsing history.

Does it? I can’t find anything in the code[0] (after 2 minutes) to suggest that. Not saying you’re wrong (I haven’t checked), but it doesn’t appear to access your history at all.[1]

[0]: https://github.com/etcet/HNES

[1]: https://github.com/etcet/HNES/search?q=history&type=

They should remove the permission request then, because it asks for it when you install from the chrome extension store. If the code is the same as the one in the repo, it shouldn't matter.