Well, speaking for myself, it's just the browser I use, I don't necessarily love it but it the standard browser with the least headache. As for the extension,

Well, speaking for myself, it's just the browser I use, I don't necessarily love it but it the standard browser with the least headache. As for the extension, it doesn't depend on anything other than hackernews and the search api, so a port should be easy. Update: It's now available as a userscript, tested on Firefox with Tampermonkey