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Last Tab Back

Use the back key to close the tab if there are no pages to go back to. When it closes, go to the tab that created it.

Users829Current public install base
Rating2.8Store average score
Reviews22Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version0.8.0.4
ManifestV3
Size97.62KiB
Languages1English (United States)
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This extension allows using the back key to go back to where you came from if it would normally have no pages to go back to.

To try it, open a new tab from a link, and then press the backspace key (note: this will not work within the web store; and if a form field is selected you need to tab out of it. It also obviously cannot work when Adobe Flash (or another plugin) is focused, as this captures key presses).

-- Tip: if you use a keyboard key or mouse button that does not appear to work in Last Tab Back, you can set up a custom key in the options page. Click on the box and try your key. If this still doesn't work, you might be able to set up a custom key in the keyboard or mouse software (possibly only for Chrome) and then try setting the custom key again in the options page. --

Pressing backspace / a custom key / clicking the LastTabBack button will go back as usual, until there are no such pages. Then it will close the tab and go back to the tab that opened this one.

This allows you to open new tabs and then go back where you came from without having to remember whether it was a new tab or a normal click to navigate - pressing backspace will take you back to the results either way.

You can also press Ctrl+Backspace to just go back to the tab that opened this one without closing the current tab, if you wish to leave this page to view later.

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Store average score2.8Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average2.5Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text19Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews22Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 2.8. 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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Alex Westbrook2025年2月19日
1

Doesn't work at all from what I can tell.

Version 0.8.0.4Language en
András Bihari2024年3月17日
1

Not working m1 air

Version 0.7.3.2Language en
Charlie Eastwood2023年8月14日
1

Doesnt work with MacBook Pro swipe.

Language en
Josh Kinnison2018年7月12日
1

doesn't work anymore

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Kay P.2017年8月17日
3

It gives you a special back button, but that's really all it does. You can neither assign this button to your mouse nor have it replace the default back button. Try the "Close on Back" extension if you'd like to have this functionality on your mouse.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Kyle Carter2017年1月20日
2

Was hoping I could use the shoulder button my my mouse for this app, but it won't work.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ignat Remizov2016年7月2日
1

It's like a special back button. Does not overwrite the standard back button, and the mouse buttons do not work. There is a special "custom button" setting in the extension, but it is keyboard only. A shame.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
William Houser2015年9月28日
2

I really think the developer needs to read these reviews and take them seriously. Being able to use the mouse back button is really the only thing that would make an extension like this useful. What's the point of only allowing it to work on screen when I can simply close a tab by clicking the close button. Firefox has an extension that works perfectly, and Chrome (Chromium) has another extension which allows the user to go back, and close tabs using the middle click. Let's get this one right people.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jacob Andrews2015年6月17日
3

Needs functionality to use mouse back buttons (ie. browser_back key)

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Meg2015年5月5日
1

Terribly coded. I want to use the back button on my mouse to close the tab, but that functionality isn't included.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful