Description
A free, highly customizable text and code editor extension for your browser.
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Ranking Summary
Overall Rank
Extension Rank
"Text Editor" Keyword
"System" Keyword
"Javascript" Keyword
"Html" Keyword
"File" Keyword
"Free Access" Keyword
"Editor" Keyword
"Custom Font" Keyword
Featured Rank
Review Summary
Users appreciate the Text Editor extension as a simple and effective alternative to Caret for text and web development on ChromeOS, especially on Chromebooks. The interface is clean and includes popular themes, making it appealing. However, multiple users report cons affecting usability: it only opens as a pop-up rather than a browser tab, lacks key editor features such as auto-save and code formatting, saving files can be unreliable, and the window size is fixed and not resizable. These issues hinder workflow, though overall it remains a favored option among ChromeOS text editors.
Pros
- Good alternative to Caret editor, especially for Chromebook users seeking a powerful text editor.
- Simple and easy to use for code and text editing, with a distraction-free interface.
- Supports opening and saving text files locally, facilitating basic text editing needs.
- Offers a pleasing user experience with attractive themes like the matrix theme.
- Suitable for web development tasks on ChromeOS with reasonable functionality.
Cons
- Does not open in a Chrome browser tab; it opens as a pop-up window which some users find inconvenient.
- Lacks important features such as auto-save, prompting on unsaved changes, and code formatting/beautifying.
- File management and saving can be problematic, including issues with saving on Windows 10 and having to repeatedly use 'Save As' instead of simple saves.
- No support for Java mode (distinguished from JavaScript) and missing advanced code editor features like code folding.
- Window opened by the app cannot be resized or opens only half-window, leading to usability complaints.
Permissions
This extension can:
- storage
Additional Information
0.2.1
July 1, 2024
1.59 MB
en
Developer Information
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