I was finding it a little hard to find when someone replied to a comment I made, or to quickly view if there were any new comments on a post I may have submitted.<p>So I made this little firefox extension to tell me when someone has replied to a comment I made, or posted a comment on a thread I submitted. A little YC icon will appear in your statusbar (ala Firebug) which will highlight whenever you have a new comment. Clicking opens a pane (again, similar to firebug) listing the comments with the ability to click to go straight to the page with the comment (and highlight the new comment if you so desire).<p>It can be grabbed here if anyone is interested:
http://wildstabmedia.com/hackernews<p>If you want the source to modify it to your own needs or add to it or whatever, just save the .xpi to disk and unzip it.<p>It was not meant to steal page views from HN, so it really is very simple, and amounts to pretty much just an rss feed to comments related to you. Some notes:<p>- it does not attempt to display comments in any nested hierarchical way<p>- column header colors are gimped on Windows (if anyone cares Ill try to fix that)<p>- the comment tree is currently a fixed height<p>- without an api, I resorted to a page-scrape of the fetched response, making it brittle (in the event HN changes layout). I made a feature request: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151926<p>it should work for ff 2 or 3, linux or windows
Very cool.<p>How to instal extensions manually: <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Installing_Extensions" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.mozilla.org/Installing_Extensions</a>
Maybe you can work with pg to make it work using the functions from the site itself?
I can't download it here at work. The word hacker is blocked on addresses.