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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Thanks gosh. 5 Stars to pump up the Backspace for the standard back function. But this add on isn't a solution. In my mind is BS Key for both. Usually for go back in the last viewed page or to cancel the text backwards. So. I hope that google give us back a key map without this add on. Bye
오른쪽 ALT 를 쓰지 못하는 한국 키보드 유저들에게 정말 최악의 패치였습니다. 영어자판만 신경쓰고 국제화조차 고려 안한 개악을 이렇게 전세계적으로 막무가내로 적용하는 모습을 보면서 정이 다 떨어졌네요. 해결책이라는 것도 그냥 기본옵션으로 제공해주면 될 걸 이렇게 꼭 확장프로그램을 설치해야 하도록 만드는 건 이해가 안가네요.
I knew i was not crazy, thank you for this extension it's a life saver.
Works perfectly. Glad that I can do this again, but annoyed that this was changed without a way to toggle in the first place. Oh well, I guess.
This shouldn't be an extension. This should be a setting that I can toggle. Change the default and add a note that says "Change this behavior in Settings" under the "Use Alt + Left Arrow" graphic. Using extensions to add settings are NOT good design, proving once again that Google knows how to only make software that feels like it's forever in beta instead of actual polished software. If Google wanted to do something right, they would change the default to Alt + Left Arrow, but allow the user to remap the Back, Forward, Refresh, and Home actions to whatever key we want, with a note saying that certain keys may be overridden based on what web control has focus. Give the user an actual choice!
Yes... this fix works, but why wasn't this just implemented into the settings or even as an experimental chrome feature? (chrome://flags/)
Es bueno para cuando quieres regresar pero sigue sin tener la opción de ir hacia adelante como lo tenía antes el navegador al presionar shift + backspace
Wrongheaded solution to the problem of lost-data in form-fields. Simply caching form-field values would solve this problem, but in the hubris I've become accustomed to from the Chromium team, they've decided what's best for us. Seriously, go to Hell with your extension, and your browser.
Please re-integrate as a setting. Was super useful, its a pain and waste of resources to have extensions.
doesn't work