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Go Back With Backspace icon

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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Nicholas Cross2016年10月31日
1

This is ridiculous. One of my most used browser shortcuts and I have to install an extension to keep it?! Smarter data loss prevention logic would be a much better route than taking a feature away. Dialogue confirmation box when navigating back after user form focus makes sense to me.

Language en
26 helpful · 7 not helpful
Efor Dizayn2016年10月31日
1

Var olan özelliği niye kaldırdılar hadi kaldırdın niye eklenti olarak yapıyorsun ayarlara eklesene ?

Language tr
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Enrico Ros2016年10月31日
1

Like everyone said: why not having an Option instead. You're making millions of people feel powerless (if not plain 'stupid'), google for an answer, and install a broken extension... Back is the most common action after scrolling and clicking links. It deserves a single accessible key (not an Alt+xyz combo) and needs native and safe support.

Language en
20 helpful · 6 not helpful
Allen Bratton2016年10月30日
3

Stupid fix for a stupid problem that never should have existed. I lost brain cells trying to figure out why my backspace key no longer worked. Thanks, Obama.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Peter Whitfield2016年10月29日
1

Buggy and shouldn't be required in the first place.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Brenton McCuskey2016年10月29日
3

The fact I even need to install an extension to restore basic operation of chrome is ridiculous.

Language en
13 helpful · 2 not helpful
Eric Labordus2016年10月29日
3

Ridiculous in the first place for a basic function; nuts!

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Michel R2016年10月28日
5

The question remains: Why did google disabled this function in the first place!!!!!!

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
James Barber2016年10月28日
1

Extension deosn't work. Just add it as an option. Very annoying not to be able to use backspace. Years of muscle memory wasted, with no reasonable alternative presented.

Language en
6 helpful · 0 not helpful
Серега F72016年10月27日
5

норм

Language uk
0 helpful · 1 not helpful