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Backspace for Navigation icon

Backspace for Navigation

Activate Backspace shortcuts to navigate in history object

Users3KCurrent public install base
Rating4.3Store average score
Reviews129Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version3.2.0
ManifestV3
Size58.2KiB
Languages1English
Published
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The original extension to bring back the Backspace key shortcut as navigation for history.back() (backspace) and history.forward() (shift+backspace). Supports blacklisting of pages, recognizes input fields and works on Linux, OSX and Windows.

Version 3.2.0 integrates the missing migration of exceptions from versions <3.x.x

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Store average score4.3Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.6Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text44Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews129Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.3. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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willde Oscar2016年7月12日
1

no use

Language en
Michael Richardson2016年6月14日
5

Doesn't work on Windows, but I'm giving it 5 stars to show my support in the hopes that the Chrome team will come to their senses and either bring this functionality back, make it an option or that someone will create an extension that will correct their mistake (by my opinion).

Language en
7 helpful · 1 not helpful
Etienne Levesque Guitard2016年6月4日
4

It doesn't work on Windows. Only OS X and Linux.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Evgeniy R2016年3月2日
3

What's up? It's not working after last update!

Language en
Alex Georgiev2014年3月16日
4

Cool, but not working for file system files.

Language en
Nikola Nikolov2014年2月26日
5

Excellent - does exactly what it's supposed to. It can be very frustrating to have to use the mouse to click the back button when you're mostly using the keyboard... It is a bit uncomfortable when you sync between Windows and Linux, but I can get over it.

Language en
Monish Overlander2014年1月20日
3

Should not navigate to previous page when attempting to delete text within an input element. Please fix.

Language en
Aaron Anderson2014年1月9日
3

It works well enough, but has a bug where backspacing a mistake in certain text fields (often form data, such as shipping addresses) causes navigation away from the page instead of the intended behavior of erasing the mistake.

Language en
Halil Velasco2014年1月8日
5

Hace lo que dice y ya, me alegra por fin poder regresar con el teclado

Language es
Krissy Brannan2013年12月13日
1

It hasn't worked on a single page.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
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