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Plugins
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 3 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Plugins, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 3 complaints
- Plugin docs were very complicated and the install UI was not intuitive2026-05-05
- Demo download requires multiple steps, repeated email and password prompts, and a confusing nested installer2021-08-26
- Plugins make the browser wait for updates, force restarts, and require searching for add-ins2010-10-21