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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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Rubén del Castillo Arbós2016年10月17日
1

no shift + backspace

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
僊逸醉(Feng)2016年10月17日
1

DOES NOT WORK WHEN I AM UNDER OTHER EXTENSION PAGES.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Joon Pyo Hong2016年10月17日
1

Doesn't work? I have it installed and it does nothing. Still need to use alt + arrow keys.

Language en
10 helpful · 2 not helpful
Wolf Priest (Anarxur)2016年10月16日
1

Garbage. If there's so much as a search bar on the page, it doesn't work. Basically just downloaded additional crap to my browser that sits around like an IE toolbar.

Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Appleton Mccool2016年10月16日
1

It works, most of the time. I really don't like having to install a extension for a 1 key function, 1 key... This brings back a feature that they removed because of people doing exactly what it is supposed to do.(read the description) Why is this a extension?

Language en
5 helpful · 1 not helpful
Morris Lepore2016年10月16日
5

works like it should, very useful tool.

Language en
1 helpful · 2 not helpful
Anonymous user2016年10月14日
5

Thank you. Those users who way too often loose their form data when using backspace should just take some typing lessons. Never lost a form data because of backspace in my life. Now I have to install an add on to get back this simple functionality.

Language en
12 helpful · 5 not helpful
Thom Rowe2016年10月14日
1

Doesn't do anything. Removing the *standard* was just stupid.

Language en
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Zura C. Katsitadse2016年10月14日
1

"except when writing text" - that not true!

Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
jostein sørgård2016年10月13日
4

Dette har vært en lang og slitsom prosess, jeg er bare skyggen av hva jeg engang var som menneske. Dette tok nesten knekken på meg, familien min, datamaskinen min samt den psykiske helsen. Hvordan dere kunne gjøre dette mot meg er uforståelig. Tusen takk til tastaturkrigeren som kloret ned kodene for denne attpåklatten av en app. <3

Language no
3 helpful · 0 not helpful