Caret
Professional text editing for Chrome and Chrome OS
Manifest V2
- Users:
- 300,000+
- Rating:
- 4.58 (1,260) 1 ratings
- Version:
- 1.8.25 (Last updated: 2020-06-21)
- Creation date:
- 2020-06-21
- Permissions:
- clipboardRead
- clipboardWrite
- contextMenus
- storage
- notifications
- syncFileSystem
- app.window.fullscreen.overrideEsc
- {"fileSystem":["write","retainEntries","directory"]}
- Size:
- 2.14M
- Email:
- ca*****@thomaswilburn.net
- URLs:
- Website
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Chrome Web Store
- Updated:
- a day ago
User reviews
Pros
- Great text editor specifically for Chrome OS.
- Fast performance even on large files.
- Supports a variety of programming languages with syntax highlighting.
- User-friendly interface with customizable themes.
- Free to use.
Cons
- Auto-launch feature cannot be disabled.
- Some users experience freezing or crashing issues.
- Missing features like project directory autoload.
- Problems with certain encoding options (e.g., windows-1251).
- Limited settings menu for user customization.
Recent reviews
Without this text editor, Chromebook is useless. Kudos to Thomas Wilburn.
by 
Santhiratan Mandyam, 2024-12-02
Santhiratan Mandyam, 2024-12-02Not great. Often freezes and loses data more often than I care to put up with. I'm now in search of a replacement given that these issues persistent across two separate devices (a Chrome OS workstation and Chrome OS laptop) and multiple OS versions.
by 
Jessica Theodat, 2024-10-25
Jessica Theodat, 2024-10-25Very solid text editor with a lot of themes. Only giving it 4 stars because of the feature which lets you write multiple lines at one with Ctrl+Up/Down; that tends to get annoying very quickly.
by 
Andrew P, 2024-05-26
Andrew P, 2024-05-26Extension safety
Risk impact
Caret requires very minimum permissions.
Risk impact analysis details
- High Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
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Risk likelihood
Caret has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- Medium This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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