# Smear Cursor

> Animate the cursor with a smooth smear trail effect in text fields. Inspired by smear-cursor.nvim for Neovim.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/smear-cursor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/smear-cursor)

## Overview

- **ID:** `smear-cursor`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Hiaki
- **Category:** web-development,appearance,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-11
- **First published:** 2026-06-08
- **Size:** 14 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/smear-cursor/)

## Rankings

- #128,760 — Overall
- #149 — cursor
- #210 — cursors

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/smear-cursor)