GhostText

Name: GhostText
Rating: 4.7879 (33 reviews)
Author: Fregante

Use your text editor to write in your browser. Everything you type in the editor will be instantly updated in the browser (and vice versa).

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Features & Capabilities

GhostText is a powerful Chrome extension that enables you to write directly in your browser using your preferred text editor. Whenever you need to edit snippets or longer stretches of code on the web, GhostText connects your browser content to your editor, providing a seamless development environment.

Supported editors include Sublime Text, VS Code, Atom, Emacs, Vim, Neovim, and ACME Editor. Simply install the extension both in your browser and your editor, activate the GhostText server within the editor, and enjoy instant synchronization between your editor and browser fields. This extension streamlines web-based coding and text editing by leveraging familiar tools you already love.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on Developer Tools

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Daily users:

Rating:

Version:

26.5.12 Last updated: 2026-05-12

Version code:

6257747

Creation date:

2016-12-27

Risk:

Permissions:

Host permissions:

http://localhost/

Content scripts matches:

localhost

Size:

101.28KB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-18

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 3,985 ▼ 10

Other rankings

#46 in cost keyword 9 ▼ 1

#54 in speech to text keyword 30 ▲ 1

#63 in summarize text keyword 8 ▲ 1

#70 in writing keyword 58 ▲ 1

#80 in context menu keyword 21 ▼ 2

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Other platforms

GhostText (v26.5.12)

7,000 4.84

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Developed by:

Fregante

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ghosttext/

Website:

https://ghosttext.fregante.com/

Permission Change History

2024-06-30: Version 24.6.7 → 24.6.30

Add Host permissions: http://localhost/

Add Optional host permissions: *://*/*

Add Permissions: scripting

Remove Permissions: http://localhost/

2023-05-16: Version 23.3.27 → 23.5.16

Add Optional permissions: *://*/*

User Reviews

Users love GhostText’s realtime sync and strong editor integration (notably Emacs), calling it a great replacement for older tools and a big workflow improvement. Common criticisms focus on missing keyboard shortcuts/auto-trigger options and occasional connection/sync reliability problems (one-way syncing, inability to reliably disconnect, duplicate editor frames).

Pros

Realtime, seamless sync between textareas and external editors (feels great to use)
Strong editor integration—especially with Emacs (many users praise this)
Improves workflows: makes coding and typing long texts on websites much smoother
Good replacement for the old "It's All Text" workflow (works with modern compose boxes like Gmail)

Cons

No keyboard shortcut or automatic trigger (users ask for hotkey/auto-focus activation)
Connection/sync reliability issues (reports of one-way sync, trouble disconnecting, duplicate editor windows/frames)

Recent reviews

by Ty*****, 2025-10-31

by dr*****, 2025-06-06

by Fi*****, 2024-08-09

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Is GhostText Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

GhostText requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

GhostText is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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