Features & Capabilities
User Growth & Download Statistics
Manifest V3 Add-on
- By:
- Wildsky
- Daily users:
- 2,935 9
- Rating:
- 4.29 (133)
- Version:
- 5.0.7 Last updated: 2025-09-19
- Version code:
- 6037227
- Creation date:
- 2017-02-19
- Risk:
- High risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
- Permissions:
- storage
- clipboardWrite
- menus
- tabs
- activeTab
- storage
- Content scripts matches:
- <all_urls>
- <all_urls>
- Size:
- 719.66KB
- Email:
- po*****@gmail.com
- URLs:
- Website
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Firefox Add-ons Store
- Data ingested on:
- 2026-06-18
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Permission Change History
2025-03-16: Version 4.10.2 → 5.0.3
Add Permissions: tabs activeTab
Remove Permissions: alarms
User Reviews
Pros
- Highly useful for preventing data loss by auto-saving text across websites and forms.
- Saves time and reduces frustration by letting you recover long text instead of retyping.
- Useful for long posts, forums, and other writing tasks in the browser.
- Allows managing saved content with viewing, copying, deleting, and exporting options, and can auto prune old entries.
- Generally reliable and appreciated as a useful, low-profile tool.
Cons
- UI and performance can be slow or unresponsive, with menu dropdowns not working and the browser sometimes hanging.
- Update and version reliability issues, such as updates not applying in some versions.
- Cross-platform issues, including some users on Linux reporting it no longer works.
- Popup interface and layout can fail to fit the screen or take long to load.
Recent reviews
Very useful addon. The amount of times this addon has saved me from losing paragraphs of text is well over 100 at this point, and it is rare to run into a case where the text is not recorded (weird JS forms, WebAssembly, etc.)
by Co*****, 2026-02-09
This addon is so invaluable and the benefits are innumerable. It has saved countless devices from being lodged into the wall, it has saved the wall countless times from having holes punched through it, it has saved the bones in my hands from being broken, improved relations with my neighbors as they no longer hear me screaming at my screen all day, has lowered my stress and blood pressure and overall improved my health and mood on a regular basis. 😁
by 𝖘*****, 2025-10-24
Very useful, saved me so many times, sometimes from my own inattention, often from badly behaved websites which flushed my text field. This extension saved me from having to re-type my text (as well as not being certain that I remember everything I meant to type, when having to restart from scratch).
One issue with the most recent version 5.0.6, but not sure if that's a Firefox or extension issue, is that the extension doesn't update anymore.
I check for updates, the new extension version is found, I install it, then if I re-check for updates it is found again. It seems like the update doesn't take. Restarting the browser and deleting cache didn't help. This happened on two very different Windows 11 machines (1/ personal gaming PC and 1 work laptop), both on FF 142.0.1.
I fixed by by uninstalling and reinstalling the extension.
by Fi*****, 2025-09-02
Is Textarea Cache Safe?
Risk impact
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Textarea Cache requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood
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Textarea Cache is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
Risk likelihood analysis details
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