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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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Abd Khrubi2016年9月27日
1

Does not work.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
G Ingram2016年9月27日
1

Shameful... I had to double check that it is actually Google that is offering this buggy extension. This extension breaks many websites depending on how they implement text fields. Sometimes you'll hit backspace to fix a small mistake in the text you just typed, and you'll find that this extension caused the browser to navigate back a page. This is something that never used to happen when the "Go back with backspace" functionality was built into the browser..

Language en
12 helpful · 0 not helpful
Daniel Yun2016年9月26日
1

Why is this not a flag in chrome://flags? Bizarre and unintuitive

Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
鉄碧2016年9月26日
1

文字入力中のbackキーで画面が戻る最低の仕様。こんな中途半端な物を公式で出しているのに呆れる。ユーザーを無視した改悪ばかり。

Language ja
8 helpful · 6 not helpful
Gleb Minevich2016年9月26日
5

А просто настройкой нельзя было сделать?..

Language ru
10 helpful · 0 not helpful
Егор Мараков2016年9月25日
5

Чисто для ноутбука практичное решение!

Language ru
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Rob Duncan2016年9月24日
5

Glad that you made it possible to backspace again. Didn't know how often I used it until it was gone.

Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
Max G2016年9月24日
1

geht nich

Language de
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Mohammad D motevalli2016年9月23日
1

from the day chrome developers decided to set a new page with google search bar in it i knew something was turning things to ugly in google... really? remove something that's been there for 20 years? it's such a bad idea that i'm turning back to Firefox. oh and another thing.. the next update: remove close click button because someone could hit it accidentally and add an extension to fix this "problem" shame on you

Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
Danny Castillo2016年9月23日
1

Dose not work on google drive where I want to use it the most!! Uninstalling- Please can I have my back button back before I start using fire fox again....

Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful