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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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Gerd VdB2016年8月22日
3

Too bad this necessary because some morons can't handle a keyboard. This should be normal function, not a plugin !

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Leon LeCame2016年8月22日
1

Works but should be useless if the browser was behaving correctly. Alt-left arrow is really a stupid shortcut as it requires the two hands (at least on my desktop keyboard). Please include this function natively.

Language en
10 helpful · 0 not helpful
Gav G2016年8月22日
3

The extension does work. However, it really should not exist. User configurable hotkeys would have been a much more preferable solution. Or / additionally, an "are you sure..." on backspace where a page contains user edited fields. Just sezzin.

Language en
2 helpful · 2 not helpful
Whirl892016年8月22日
1

this should not have been an extension but a check option in the browser.

Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
Дмитрий Смирнов2016年8月22日
5

Ура!!!

Language ru
Zé Pedro Rocha2016年8月22日
1

This is complete retarded. I totally hate it. Why this is an extension now

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Neil Law2016年8月22日
3

It works, but it doesn't seem as responsive as the original built in functionality. Typical Google, break the clock that works!

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
stridor2016年8月22日
1

I typically hate leaving 1 star reviews, but this app should not need to exist. First off, removing the functionality is madness. You've fallen in to the trap of hearing a complaint from a section of your user base and forgetting that normal users will never say 'gee I sure do like that backspace takes you back a page.' Secondly, how is an EXTENSION a better option than a simple check box in the settings? It seems lazy and bloated to make you install an add on for such a basic change. You've made a bit of a shambles of this one, Google.

Language en
33 helpful · 7 not helpful
최규연2016年8月22日
1

이 기본적인 키를 왜 확장프로그램을 설치해서 써야하나요.~!!!

Language ko
2 helpful · 2 not helpful
Elizabeth Horne2016年8月22日
1

1 star for the absurdity of needing to install this extension in the first place.

Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful