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Re:Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience by reaperducer on Thursday June 13, 2019 @05:48PM (#20178877)
The extension is available on both Chrome and Firefox

Slightly off-topic, but why not Safari? Is it harder to program plug-ins than the others? Not enough market share? Just don't have the hardware?

Re:Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience by acsands13 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @06:02PM (#20178969)
This is fairly common for extensions to be on Chrome/Firefox but not Safari, unfortunately. Firefox's WebExtension APIs are mostly code-compatible with the extension API supported by Google Chrome and Opera, with a few exceptions [1].

Safari uses its own Safari Extensions JS, so while it may be possible to share some resources (e.g. images, HTML content), the js work needs to be undertaken as a separate development project, unless you use/build a polyfill.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

Re:Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience by saagarjha on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:24PM (#20179713)
The JavaScript Safari Extension API is deprecated and extensions using it do not work in Safari 13.
Re:Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience by saagarjha on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:27PM (#20179726)
Safari has traditionally used a different extension API, which coupled with this smaller adoption has hindered the progress of extensions in the platform. A recent change to an app extension model has hurt the ecosystem even more, as it killed a significant portion of the already few extensions that used to exist.