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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
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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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Anonymous user2017年6月5日
1

So buggy. Attempts to navigate backwards when pressing backspace in editable text regions. And the website blacklist feature doesn't even work - add a page to disable the extension, and it's still active! Ridiculous.

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Fritzelly2017年6月3日
1

Causes W10 to freeze up randomly

Language en
Jack Jensen2017年5月28日
5

So glad it worked. Hittin the backspace always saves me time, and keeps me in the flow of my research. I could see how the backspace can cause a lot of inexperienced people problems. For a more refined user. "BOOO-YAAAA"

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
heroic Chu2017年5月25日
1

并没有什么卵用 It's useless

Language zh
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Michael Rahmani2017年5月21日
5

Very good

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ben Andrews2017年5月18日
1

Google's removal of the backspace key without introducing a setting is a really customer unfriendly move. This shouldn't require an extensibility interface - it should be a core browser feature. This keyboard shortcut has worked since the very early days of the Internet, and changing it now is wildly frustrating; now I'm required to have Javascript bloat injected into every page I browse on...

Language en
25 helpful · 1 not helpful
jimz nik2017年5月14日
5

Perfect Very Helpfull

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
George2017年5月9日
1

Google should bring this as an option into Chrome Browser and this Extension is ridiculous. Don't make backspace the default behaviour and let the users that want it to enable such a functionality.

Language en
0 helpful · 3 not helpful
Тимур Азиев2017年5月9日
1

Верните Bacspace в гугл хром, расширения только грузят процессор лишними процессами. Процессор буквально захлебывается от процессов Chrome.exe

Language ru
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Anonymous user2017年5月6日
1

Listen to your users Google! The only reason I am trying this extension is because I keep missing what was perfectly in order in the first place.

Language en
1 helpful · 4 not helpful