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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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Mike Herrera2016年8月23日
5

Trying to counteract the reviews from people who don't understand the difference between rating an extension and rating the need for an extension.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Adrian Scahill2016年8月22日
1

Like a lot of people I'm rating this one star to complain about the removal of the backspace shortcut without any warning or notice, and for not giving any option to retain it.

Language en
19 helpful · 8 not helpful
Anonymous user2016年8月22日
1

Breaks your ability to actually use backspace within many forms. This is ridiculous... There was nothing wrong with the warning message users would get that they were about to lose unsaved/unsubmitted data if they hit backspace while outside of a box. Stop pretending that this wasn't the previous behaviour and trying to spin this change as a data-loss prevention move. Removing backspace in the first place was trying to fix something that wasn't broken, and this extension breaks even more things trying to provide a workaround "fix" for what was unnecessarily broken to begin with.

Language en
35 helpful · 9 not helpful
Rick Terry2016年8月22日
1

Can't believe this is even necessary, I don't know a single person outside of my CS major who even knows that ALT + <-- is a thing.

Language en
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Igor Irić2016年8月22日
1

It is going back page even if you press backspace in text editing field!!! So, you are writing a review and puff - your page disappears when you want to correct mistake! And also, 1 star because this extension exists - like many other users commented.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
D H2016年8月22日
1

I shouldn't need this.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Anonymous user2016年8月22日
1

Now work!

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Anonymous user2016年8月22日
5

СПАСИБО))

Language ru
Ash Otto2016年8月22日
5

Thanks

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
C D2016年8月22日
1

It doesnt work everywhere

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful