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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
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version3.0
ManifestV3
Size21.89KiB
Languages1English
Published
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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
Synced text average2.8Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text841Synced review bodies
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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Dan Wanegar2016年10月26日
1

The fact that I need to install this after over a decade of using backspace on browsers warrants Google's fix a 1-star rating. Google really should have instead put this as a box to check in native Chrome settings.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Javeloz Shadowspark2016年10月25日
3

It restores the function, but I keep needing to turn it off and back on depending on the page I am on. It goes back a page on flash games that I lose progress on where the backspace key would normally be able to remove text. It has similar issues with certain web documents that were never present with Chrome before backspace was turned into an extension. This needs to be reconfigured to work better with flash games that use text fields in the flash program itself and document editing.

Language en
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Alex Gerome2016年10月25日
4

Works as it should

Language en
TEJAS G2016年10月25日
1

Doesn't work

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Max Vendelbo2016年10月23日
4

Works on almost all websites. However sometimes it doesnt work when in a fullscreen video player.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Erik Smith2016年10月23日
1

This outright didn't work on sites I use. No idea why it was changed.

Language en
5 helpful · 1 not helpful
M A2016年10月21日
1

Does not work on all pages

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Brian Polito2016年10月21日
3

works great in laptop mode, but when flipped into tablet mode, the backspace button will not go back.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Heather2016年10月20日
1

Does not work!

Language en
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Alexandr Saushkin2016年10月20日
4

нафига убирали то? чтобы пользовались расширением?

Language ru
6 helpful · 2 not helpful