Text Editor

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Extension status: Featured

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A free, highly customizable text and code editor extension for your browser.

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Text Editor is a full-featured text & code editor add-on for your browser.

This add-on has plenty of options to adjust and is built on top of the famous CodeMirror open-source JavaScript library (https://codemirror.net/). Once you open the add-on for the first time, you will see a sidebar at the left and an empty text editor at the right. The left sidebar includes file I/O buttons. For example, a button to open file(s) or settings. There is also a right sidebar that includes all the options for this app.

Note 1: This extension uses the new file system access API (https://web.dev/file-system-access/) to open and save files to disk. But, if your browser does not support this new API, it uses the - downloads - API instead to save files to disk in the default download folder (asks for downloads permission when opening the interface).

Note 2: Currently, Text Editor supports three key-maps for famous text editors (i.e. sublime). Moreover, it supports more than 100 coding languages (i.e. JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc.)

If you have a feature request or found a bug to report, please fill the bug report form in the add-on's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/text-editor.html).

Latest reviews

Pete B. 2025-07-30: Does what it says on the tin.
Henry Foster 2025-04-28: I'm not a coder, but I made constant use of Caret for various kinds of text manipulation. I needed to find a similarly powerful text editor that I can use once Chrome app support ends - and this is definitely it. I love it!
Ramesh Errabolu 2024-07-14: I didn't find an option that allows the editor to open inside the browser tab. It opens as a pop-up window. To me being able to open inside the browser with the ability to store either in the local or remote drive is essential. I would like the app to open the editor in a manner similar to another chrome plugin called Papier Without this ability, I find the app simply not useful.
Frederique Lesne 2024-04-07: Wow! Better and easier than screwing around with Dreamweaver. Brilliant.
7319 Eklavya 2024-02-20: 0 star
息子運命 2023-04-13: How about native terminal from OS that Chrome browser was installed?, since looking for an alternative for VS Code, but can run offline on Chrome Extension
息子運命 2023-04-13: How about native terminal from OS that Chrome browser was installed?, since looking for an alternative for VS Code, but can run offline on Chrome Extension
Skeletial 2023-03-09: Amazing extension if you want to get some work done on a chromebook. A lot of times I'm sitting in study hall, bored and wasting time, but then I open this up and I'm able to easily get some work done on my websites. Although the real reason I gave it five stars was because the matrix theme is better than any other theme that any other text editor provides. One tiny suggestion I have is the option to toggle between the bigger button gui and the old one, but other than that, I would give this 6 stars if I could!
Skeletial 2023-03-09: Amazing extension if you want to get some work done on a chromebook. A lot of times I'm sitting in study hall, bored and wasting time, but then I open this up and I'm able to easily get some work done on my websites. Although the real reason I gave it five stars was because the matrix theme is better than any other theme that any other text editor provides. One tiny suggestion I have is the option to toggle between the bigger button gui and the old one, but other than that, I would give this 6 stars if I could!
Christophe Hollebeke 2023-02-16: I do webdevelopment on my Chromebook for years. Normal i used Caret-editor, but it's not update anymore and have not a lot of functionality, so after searching a lot of time, don't found a good alternative, so last time using VSCode (linux), but this is not ChromeOS friendly and drain my battery (linux/Crostini). Until now, trying TextEditor, and works very well. Okay it missed some functions like Format Document/Beautifying and replace text, but is a good candidate to replace my 'old' Caret-editor and works nicely in ChromeOS. There only a few IDE's on ChromeOS, and the most are outdated or have a lot of bugs, TextEditor is at this moment my favorite. Hope see more functions in the future. Very good work! I like it :-)
Christophe Hollebeke 2023-02-16: I do webdevelopment on my Chromebook for years. Normal i used Caret-editor, but it's not update anymore and have not a lot of functionality, so after searching a lot of time, don't found a good alternative, so last time using VSCode (linux), but this is not ChromeOS friendly and drain my battery (linux/Crostini). Until now, trying TextEditor, and works very well. Okay it missed some functions like Format Document/Beautifying and replace text, but is a good candidate to replace my 'old' Caret-editor and works nicely in ChromeOS. There only a few IDE's on ChromeOS, and the most are outdated or have a lot of bugs, TextEditor is at this moment my favorite. Hope see more functions in the future. Very good work! I like it :-)
Ulrich Reinert 2022-10-18: Very helpful, i like it.
Ulrich Reinert 2022-10-18: Very helpful, i like it.
Robert M. Papillion 2022-04-24: It's just what I needed: Open an existing text file from a local drive or create one from scratch. Save the text file to a local drive.
Robert M. Papillion 2022-04-24: It's just what I needed: Open an existing text file from a local drive or create one from scratch. Save the text file to a local drive.
David Wilson 2022-02-23: Really liking this so far! Hope to see this continue to be supported.
David Wilson 2022-02-23: Really liking this so far! Hope to see this continue to be supported.
Skelly 2021-12-01: Everything is great!!! The only thing I need is being able to type in Lua, that's it!
Skelly 2021-12-01: Everything is great!!! The only thing I need is being able to type in Lua, that's it!
Naol Fekadu 2020-09-02: Exactly what I'm hoping to find
Naol Fekadu 2020-09-02: Exactly what I'm hoping to find
Pierre Fortier 2020-07-25: I like it. I wish (1) it could open in a tab and (2) it could enable code folding.
Pierre Fortier 2020-07-25: I like it. I wish (1) it could open in a tab and (2) it could enable code folding.
Luciano Raffaelli 2020-02-04: Can't believe the app opens half-window, and can't be resized. Unistalled immediately
Luciano Raffaelli 2020-02-04: Can't believe the app opens half-window, and can't be resized. Unistalled immediately
Ben 2019-12-04: Does not save to windows 10 pro pc properly, lost a lot of notes and contents!
Ben 2019-12-04: Does not save to windows 10 pro pc properly, lost a lot of notes and contents!
Clifford Slocombe 2019-10-25: Does not auto save or prompt on exist for unsaved changes - lost work, gave up.
Clifford Slocombe 2019-10-25: Does not auto save or prompt on exist for unsaved changes - lost work, gave up.
Yao King 2019-07-29: how to open this extension as a new tab in chrome, not as a standalone window?
Yao King 2019-07-29: how to open this extension as a new tab in chrome, not as a standalone window?
Kelechi Mba 2019-06-08: Everything about it seems fine. My only query is that there is not a mode for Java specifically which is different to JavaScript, so when I want to save the file it's preset to JavaScript which I have to manually change. Also it seems for me that when I click the "Save" button nothing happens and I have to continually keep on clicking the "Save As" button whenever I want to save an updated file.
Kelechi Mba 2019-06-08: Everything about it seems fine. My only query is that there is not a mode for Java specifically which is different to JavaScript, so when I want to save the file it's preset to JavaScript which I have to manually change. Also it seems for me that when I click the "Save" button nothing happens and I have to continually keep on clicking the "Save As" button whenever I want to save an updated file.
雷雨 2019-05-16: Looks good, like atom.
Mc Spam 2019-05-10: It's an easy application to use, it also allows me to copy code snippets and quickly locate opening and closing brackets, plus it's distraction-free and shows up every time I log myself into a Chrome browser... What more could I ask for?
Mc Spam 2019-05-10: It's an easy application to use, it also allows me to copy code snippets and quickly locate opening and closing brackets, plus it's distraction-free and shows up every time I log myself into a Chrome browser... What more could I ask for?
Anonymous 2019-03-09: nice for editing
Anonymous 2019-03-09: nice for editing

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