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Backspace to go Back

Restores browser behavior of navigating to previous page when pressing the Backspace key.

Users100KCurrent public install base
Rating4.5Store average score
Reviews561Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version1.1.2
ManifestV3
Size13.42KiB
Languages1English
Published
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This extension requires permissions to inject a piece of code in all of the pages you visit. If that freaks you out, that's ok. Handing over those permissions freaks me out too.

You can choose to install this extension from source (it's very short) to make sure it's not doing anything malicious.

See: https://github.com/oslego/chrome-backspace-back#from-source

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Store average score4.5Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.4Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text289Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews561Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Brent Visser2016年8月16日
5

This is amazing. Thank you for helping out the large group of people that use backspace for back - a group that Google seems to have forgotten.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
christian c2016年8月16日
5

Great and essential (what the hell is the Chrome dev team thinking about ?) Would be awesome if you could also bring back the shift-backspace behavior (forward), as it is the natural complement of backspace Thanks a lot !

Language en
Tanner Hess2016年8月16日
5

May god bless you and all of your family for hundreds of years. You da man!

Language en
M2016年8月16日
4

This is great BUT, SHIFT-Backspace used to go FORWARD again in the history. Please please please can you add that function?

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Dan Bergbigler2016年8月16日
5

You sir are literally the best person. I hate the google chrome v52 change.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Kaylene Ruwart2016年8月15日
5

You are a true hero.

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Ashley Thompson2016年8月15日
5

Thank goodness for this fix. I just woke up to the shift + arrow 'update' and had been going crazy to try and figure out what was wrong with my computer. I had one little issue where it didn't want to work right away, but closing and reopening the browser fixed it and now it's working across all sites!

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
instntKarma2016年8月15日
5

almost went back to firefox, thanks god we have extensions. dear google team, if you decided to remove the backspace feature, couldnt you at least allow users to define thier own key? google way, or the high way... pathetic

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Remco Groen2016年8月15日
5

Must-have since Google decided to remove the default backspace function. Even more so when your mouse doesn't have thumb buttons for back and forward.

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jamie pandahugs2016年8月14日
2

I don't wanna complain, but its not useful if I can't use it on youtube...

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0 helpful · 2 not helpful