[Chrome Extension] Go Back With Backspace

[Arthur]

Download (Chrome Web Store)

 

Re-enables the backspace key as a back navigation button (except when writing text).

Go back with the backspace button! This extension re-enables the backspace key as a back navigation button -- except if you're writing text.

 

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.

 

About the "all sites" permission: In order to capture backspace on every page, the extension needs to install a little piece of code on each one. It does nothing else with the the page, its information, or your typing.

 

By installing this item, you agree to the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.

 

[MatthewL]

Thank god for that, thought I was going mad didn't realise they had removed it, its a function I used on a daily basis.

[DalekSec]

Thank god for that, thought I was going mad didn't realise they had removed it, its a function I used on a daily basis.

 

Can't remember last time i used the back button in chrome, 99.9% of the time i use the keys on the side of the mouse to go back and forth!

[MatthewL]

I'm a big keyboard user rather than mouse so I miss it.