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Comment by Alex3917 | Hacker News Reader

I actually just uninstalled this the other day. It annoyed me that clicking on someone's username wouldn't take me to their profile page, and not only that but there was no longer any way to get there.

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I've been using this extension for awhile, and I can't duplicate your results - clicking on your username with the extension installed is taking me right to your profile page. What happens when you do it?

> It annoyed me that clicking on someone's username wouldn't take me to their profile page

Thanks for using my Autobahn for Hacker News plugin for the past few months! I thought I should let you know that you can disable the Profile Overlay in the options panel. I love it because I can see the user's twitter name, image, and follow button, as well as clickable links and e-mail addresses, all without having to click the 'Back' button. What don't you like about that feature?

Autobahn for Hacker News has always allowed you to disable or enable any feature separately, including the User Profile overlay, as the launch video, official page, and this screen shot shows since July 4th.

http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/img/autobahn-options-google-...

Autobahn also has hundreds of daily unique users and launched on July 4th with the headline "Save Time on Hacker News." If you want to ban stories and see full subdomain names, get it today! http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/

This doesn't happen to me and it just shouldn't happen (I don't change the username in any way). Did you see this consistently? It's very odd.

Ahh I think I was actually thinking of the HN chrome extension Autobahn, which also has the tagline "save time on Hacker News."

(author here) First, thanks for trying Autobahn! I wanted to mention that Autobahn has always allowed you to enable/disable any of the three features in the Options panel. I'm also curious about what you didn't like about the Profile Overlay? It shows the user profile in an overlay so you don't have to click the back button, as well as the user's twitter handle, picture, and profile image. On top of that, it makes links and emails clickable. Thanks!

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