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A fast review UI for GitHub pull requests. Reviewing a pull request on GitHub means a lot of scrolling, a lot of clicking, and a lot of waiting. A Better Reviewer replaces that with an interface built for the handful of things you actually do over and over — and deliberately nothing else. Open a pull request and a small card appears with "Start a Better Review". Click it and the whole review opens in a fast, purpose-built page. Don't want the card? Collapse it to a pill and it stays out of your way. WHAT IT DOES • Comments, with reply and resolve • The full pending-review flow — queue comments, then submit them together • Approve and request changes • Status checks, including GitHub Actions runs and older commit statuses • Keyboard navigation throughout • Per-file viewed state, so you can track your way through a large diff • Drafts that survive a failed post, so nothing you typed is lost • Multi-line comments and suggestion authoring • Noise filtering and diff search • Expand unchanged context around a hunk • Scope the diff to one commit, a range of commits, or "changes since my last review" • Light and dark, following your system YOUR CHOICE OF WHERE IT OPENS Reviews open in a new tab by default, leaving the pull request where it was. You can switch that to a new window — useful on a second monitor — or to the current tab. There is also an option to open the review automatically whenever you land on a pull request, so the card becomes one less click. Anything it does not do hands off to GitHub through an "Open in GitHub" button, so you are never stuck. BRING YOUR OWN TOKEN The extension has no server and no account. It talks to GitHub using a fine-grained personal access token that you create and control, scoped to only the repositories you choose. The Options page walks you through creating one with exactly the right permissions. Your token is encrypted on your own machine with a passphrase you choose — PBKDF2 key derivation and AES-GCM, with only the ciphertext written to disk. The decrypted token is held in memory for the browser session and never written to a file. The passphrase is never stored and never transmitted. To be plain about the limit of that: encryption protects the token against anything reading your browser profile off disk. It cannot protect against code running inside the extension itself while it is unlocked. That is true of every browser extension that holds a credential. PRIVACY No analytics. No telemetry. No third-party servers. The developer receives no data of any kind. The extension makes network requests to github.com and api.github.com and to nowhere else. OPEN SOURCE The full source is at https://github.com/justinmwarner/gh-ext — every claim above can be checked against it. LIMITS WORTH KNOWING BEFORE YOU INSTALL • github.com only. GitHub Enterprise is not supported. • Applying a suggestion is not supported, because GitHub exposes no public endpoint for it. Authoring and rendering suggestions both work. • The pull request description renders as plain text. The overview panel links to GitHub for the formatted version.