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I Built a Privacy-First Chrome Extension That Saves Your Forms Locally — Zero Network Requests

DEV Community·Jude Hilgendorf·about 1 month ago
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I Built a Privacy-First Chrome Extension That Saves Your Forms Locally You're 800 words deep into a job application. Tab crashes. Refresh. Gone. We've all been there. Most "form saver" extensions phone home to some SaaS with a freemium tier and a privacy policy nobody reads. I wanted the opposite: something that runs entirely on my machine, never makes a network request, and just works. So I built FormVault — an open-source Chrome extension that auto-saves form data to local storage, with a one-click restore toast when you come back to the page. GitHub: https://github.com/TiltedLunar123/FormVault What it does Auto-saves any form field you type into, debounced 3 seconds after your last keystroke Pops a non-intrusive toast when you revisit a page with saved data Skips passwords, credit card fields, SSNs — never saved, period Banking sites blocked by default, with a user-configurable domain blocklist All UI injected via Shadow DOM so it never collides with host page styles 100% local storage. Zero fetch calls.…

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