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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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Clayton Vella2016年10月1日
1

This works well to go back, but everytime I am typing something, it still takes me back a page.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Godspeed Teng2016年10月1日
5

怎么没人评论呢?哈哈!

Language zh
DaRanged2016年9月30日
1

This does not work with Flash pages/objects, so defeats the object completely. The fact that this exists is pathetic on Google's behalf. This should be a switch to reenable the original code, not a crappy extension.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Leon W2016年9月30日
2

Go Back with Backspace doesn´t work...

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Robert Tausig2016年9月30日
2

Doesn't work on all sites, as it used to. Also it is audacious to give this functionality back by a Chrome App, which are going to be discontinued by 2018. Google could give us easily a browser flag for keeping the functionality. There is no reason to remove this feature entirely, and I am sorely disappointed. Not just because they removed this functionality, but because how unnecessary it was.

Language en
9 helpful · 0 not helpful
Benjamin Dan2016年9月30日
2

Doesn't work on all websites properly. The fact that it was removed as a standard function in the first place is ridiculous. Please just create an option to disable the new alt+left function. I get why it makes sense for novice users and those who aren't technologically inclined, but for the rest of us it's a major annoyance.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Adriano2016年9月29日
1

Still not working.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Bence Berc2016年9月29日
2

Doesn't work...

Language en
Victor Fernandez2016年9月28日
2

No debería hacer falta una extensión para hacer esto....

Language es
1 helpful · 2 not helpful
Shaquelle Plato (Multiversus)2016年9月28日
5

Actually works unlike others

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful