Backspace to go Back
Workflow & Planning
Restores browser behavior of navigating to previous page when pressing the Backspace key.
Users
100K
Rating
4.5
Reviews
561
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0|0%
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Go Back With Backspace
Re-enables the backspace key as a back navigation button (except when writing text).
Users300KCurrent public install base
Rating3.2Store average score
Reviews1,369Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version3.0
ManifestV3
Size21.89KiB
Languages1English
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Go back with the backspace button! This extension re-enables the backspace key as a back navigation button -- except if you're writing text.
What's New in 3.0:
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* Updated to Manifest V3.
Before Chrome 52, the backspace key navigated back (if you weren't writing text). Many people lost their progress while working online by accidentally pressing backspace and leaving a page -- so we removed the feature from Chrome, and created this extension for those who prefer the old behavior.
This extension can't restore backspace on certain special pages, for example any of the "chrome://" pages such as Settings or Extensions.
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Store average score3.2Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
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Total ratings / reviews1,369Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
Store average score: 3.2. 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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여윽씌 뒤로가려면 빽슈페이슈킈다. 즈는 이릏게 생각을 해쓰여
Finally addon that can filter pages where it should be enabled or disabled! LOVE IT!! 5/5 it was driving me mad that the previous addon couldn't do that and I was accidantely going back again and again
Google definitely made a mistake in removing this feature entirely, and this half-assed extension really doesn't make up for it. I'm not certain but I'm pretty sure this just inserts some Javascript on the page that detects if a text box isn't highlighted and goes back in the history. Sometimes this won't work on special pages where JS can't be injected (like images or PDFs). The original feature was baked into Chrome so it had the capability to go back on any page.
This does as is advertised. The 3 star overall rating is due to a lot of people hating on google, not this extension.
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Another example og Google ignoring it users and removing featues, hangouts, listen, chrome.
Doesn't work recently. Chrome: 61.0.3163.100
This really needs to be a setting. A setting defaulting to "on". Delegating this important keyboard interaction to an extension is severely limiting and adds unneccessary complications to normal browsing.
Good that Google thought of this. Much simpler and faster to use backspace when quick browsing across multiple websites. Understandable that Google removed this as a default option, but doesn't Chrome store data like inputted text temporarily by default? Or does that depend on the website and how it stores it's cookies on a computer? Well, either way, gg with this extension. (Shouldn't this have been a default option in the chrome menu, instead of being an extension?)
Thank you to let us to use again this function!