Text Editor

A free, highly customizable text and code editor extension for your browser.

What is Text Editor?

"Text Editor" is a full-featured text and code editor Chrome extension. It's built on the famous CodeMirror open-source JavaScript library. It supports three key-maps and over 100 coding languages. The extension uses the new file system access API to open and save files.

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By: Sevina

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Users: 30,000+

Rating: 4.00 (22)

Version: 0.1.9 (Last updated: 2023-01-10)

Creation date: 2019-12-01

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

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Size: 1.51M

Email: se*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 5425 ▼ 35

Other rankings

#9987 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 40

#1 in text editor keyword 14

#10 in editor keyword 75 ▲ 4

#92 in custom font keyword 31 ▲ 31

#149 in javascript keyword 42 ▲ 39

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Not available on Firefox

Text Editor (v0.1.9)

3.50 (2) 3,437+

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Summary

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Text Editor is a full-featured text & code editor add-on for your browser.

This add-on has plenty of options to adjust and is built on top of the famous CodeMirror open-source JavaScript library (https://codemirror.net/). Once you open the add-on for the first time, you will see a sidebar at the left and an empty text editor at the right. The left sidebar includes file I/O buttons. For example, a button to open file(s) or settings. There is also a right sidebar that includes all the options for this app.

Note 1: This extension uses the new file system access API (https://web.dev/file-system-access/) to open and save files to disk. But, if your browser does not support this new API, it uses the - downloads - API instead to save files to disk in the default download folder (asks for downloads permission when opening the interface).

Note 2: Currently, Text Editor supports three key-maps for famous text editors (i.e. sublime). Moreover, it supports more than 100 coding languages (i.e. JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc.)

If you have a feature request or found a bug to report, please fill the bug report form in the add-on's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/text-editor.html).

User reviews

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Pros

Works well on ChromeOS and is battery friendly
Allows for work on a chromebook offline
Simple and distraction-free user interface
Support for themes, such as the matrix theme
Useful for basic text editing and writing code

Cons

Lacks some advanced features like format document/beautifying and replace text
Does not auto-save or prompt to save unsaved changes
Cannot open in a new tab and isn't resizable
Does not save properly on certain operating systems like Windows 10 Pro
No specific mode for Java and issues with the save functionality

Most mentioned

Need for more advanced editing functions and features
Support and compatibility with ChromeOS
Ease of use for basic text file creation and editing
Theme support and requests for more customization options
Problems with saving and potential data loss

Recent reviews

0 star

7319 Eklavya, 2024-02-20

How about native terminal from OS that Chrome browser was installed?, since looking for an alternative for VS Code, but can run offline on Chrome Extension

息子運命, 2023-04-13

Amazing extension if you want to get some work done on a chromebook. A lot of times I'm sitting in study hall, bored and wasting time, but then I open this up and I'm able to easily get some work done on my websites. Although the real reason I gave it five stars was because the matrix theme is better than any other theme that any other text editor provides. One tiny suggestion I have is the option to toggle between the bigger button gui and the old one, but other than that, I would give this 6 stars if I could!