# Webcam Recorder

> Record video from your computer's camera and/or record audio from your microphone

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/webcam-recorder](https://chrome-stats.com/d/webcam-recorder)

## Overview

- **ID:** `webcam-recorder`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Brian
- **Category:** privacy-security,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 385
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.2
- **Last updated:** 2021-04-29
- **First published:** 2019-11-24
- **Size:** 68 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/webcam-recorder/)
- **Website:** [https://add0n.com/webcam-recorder.html](https://add0n.com/webcam-recorder.html)

## Description

Webcam Recorder is a straightforward yet powerful Chrome extension that enables you to record video from your computer’s camera and audio from your microphone on demand. It saves videos locally in WebM format, ensuring your privacy as no data is sent to any server—everything works completely offline. The extension features the ability to record with or without audio, pause and resume recordings, and recovers saved videos even after a browser crash. Utilizing IndexedDB storage, it supports recording very long streams seamlessly. Designed with a non-persistent background page, Webcam Recorder is efficient and user-friendly for all your video capturing needs.

## Rankings

- #5,813 — Overall
- #9 — record
- #11 — video recorder
- #132 — receive
- #156 — resume
- #194 — web3

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `downloads`
- `unlimitedStorage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows management of download operations but generally doesn't severely affect security unless misused.
- 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/webcam-recorder)