# Textarea Cache

> Allows to save automatically the content in a text input field.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/textarea-cache](https://chrome-stats.com/d/textarea-cache)

## Overview

- **ID:** `textarea-cache`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Wildsky
- **Category:** privacy-security,appearance,alerts-updates,other
- **Daily users:** 2,884
- **Weekly downloads:** 15
- **Rating:** 4.29 / 5 (133 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.0.7
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-19
- **First published:** 2017-02-19
- **Size:** 720 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/textarea-cache/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/wildskyf/TextareaCache/issues](https://github.com/wildskyf/TextareaCache/issues)

## Description

Textarea Cache is a reliable Chrome extension designed to automatically save the content you type in text input fields, including textareas and WYSIWYG editors. While you compose messages, write articles, or fill forms, the extension continuously caches your input in real-time. If your browser tab or window closes unexpectedly, you can easily recover your saved texts via the cache panel, preventing any loss of valuable information.

Ideal for writers, students, and anyone frequently entering text online, Textarea Cache enhances productivity by safeguarding your work without manual saving steps. Its seamless background operation ensures peace of mind while you focus on your tasks.

## Rankings

- #1,726 — Overall
- #45 — Alerts & Updates
- #263 — Other extensions
- #277 — Appearance
- #326 — Privacy & Security
- #5 — cache

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `menus`
- `tabs`
- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Textarea Cache is highly valued for reliably preserving user-typed content across sites, helping avoid data loss and saving time by reducing retyping. Reviewers repeatedly praise its usefulness for long posts and forum writing, and its ability to view, copy, delete, and export saved entries. However, several users report stability and performance problems in some versions, including slow or unresponsive menus, dropdown issues, and browser hangs; and there are compatibility problems on Linux and with updates. Overall, a powerful tool with notable reliability concerns in certain setups.

### 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.

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