Close on Back
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Description from extension meta
This extension will close your active tab when you hit back on the last history page.
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Description from store
Very useful when you open a tab but want to close in directly. This extension will also work with the extra history back buttons you might have on your mouse or with keyboard shortcuts.
Latest reviews
- Tim Stark
- No longer works in vivaldi
- Freedbot
- Previously, this was the only extension that did this properly on Chrome, but I think it stopped working for me on Vivaldi after the last update... presumably in order to fix it for Brave as mentioned in the previous reviews. Got a github or something with the old versions so I can see if that's the case?
- Steve Janke
- It stopped working a few months ago. (Brave on win 11)
- Mickael Coelho Da Silveira
- Unfortunately not working on Brave
- Kay Urbach
- Does not change anything about the default behavior on Chromebooks.
- Mitchell Mumpower
- This should be a default setting option for future Chrome builds! I tend to open links in new tabs, especially from searches, and wondered if the functionality existed to close those tabs when I use my mouse back button to prevent the need for keyboard usage or the need to narrow in on any one of my numerous opened tabs. Thank you kindly for this essential plugin!
- Makalo
- not working with mouse so where is the back button lol? Click it literally? Whats the point?!
- Makalo
- not working with mouse so where is the back button lol? Click it literally? Whats the point?!
- Michael Adrian
- Please make this work in Edge? I could not find one that works for Edge.
- Michael Adrian
- Please make this work in Edge? I could not find one that works for Edge.
- Michael Johnson
- This should be built-in web browsers!! Only regret is it won't work on tabs loading "forever" (spinning favicon) like direct hd .jpeg picture links and sometimes even reddit take +3s to load
- Michael Johnson
- This should be built-in web browsers!! Only regret is it won't work on tabs loading "forever" (spinning favicon) like direct hd .jpeg picture links and sometimes even reddit take +3s to load
- eunjun lee
- 엉엉
- Alex D
- A simply indispensable addon. Thanks! EDIT: Does not work in Microsoft Edge, unfortunately.
- Alex D
- A simply indispensable addon. Thanks! EDIT: Does not work in Microsoft Edge, unfortunately.
- A F
- It's perfect! exactly what I wanted Some websites just open files in new tabs when you click on them, now I can use my mouse back button to go back. It just doesn't work on new tabs which is fine by me
- A F
- It's perfect! exactly what I wanted Some websites just open files in new tabs when you click on them, now I can use my mouse back button to go back. It just doesn't work on new tabs which is fine by me
- 김현진
- 사파리에서만 되던 기능을 크롬에서도 쓸 수 있어서 너무 좋습니다. 진짜 좋아요.
- David Prioriello
- I can't this to work. Please fix!!
- David Prioriello
- I can't this to work. Please fix!!
- F Amann
- I like it. But can you add a function that when it closed the tab by clicking back that it reopens the tab if i click forward?
- F Amann
- I like it. But can you add a function that when it closed the tab by clicking back that it reopens the tab if i click forward?
- Phương Trần Đức
- Nice design and good idea
- Phương Trần Đức
- Nice design and good idea
- Nizar
- Can you also do a reopen last tab on no more forward? Basically to counteract a misjudged back that ends up closing a wanted new tab.
- Nizar
- Can you also do a reopen last tab on no more forward? Basically to counteract a misjudged back that ends up closing a wanted new tab.
- Thomas McGinnis
- This would get a higher rating from me because it is indispensible, but I've discovered that it interferes with the Google Calendar, specifically quite often when I try to edit a calendar event, the browser tab closes. If I turn off the "Close on Back" extension, the problem goes away. This is a bug that should be fixable.
- Thomas McGinnis
- This would get a higher rating from me because it is indispensible, but I've discovered that it interferes with the Google Calendar, specifically quite often when I try to edit a calendar event, the browser tab closes. If I turn off the "Close on Back" extension, the problem goes away. This is a bug that should be fixable.
- Alex M
- This was the only thing keeping me from using Chrome. I'm so use to using "Back IS Close" in Firefox I just couldn't get use to Chrome without it. Firefox has a lot of problems and has for years... I can now use Chrome the way I want and it does seem to work better than Firefox!
- Alex M
- This was the only thing keeping me from using Chrome. I'm so use to using "Back IS Close" in Firefox I just couldn't get use to Chrome without it. Firefox has a lot of problems and has for years... I can now use Chrome the way I want and it does seem to work better than Firefox!
- Laurenz Altenmüller
- It works, but sometimes causes issues with Momentum Dash (https://momentumdash.com/), which yields an ugly-loking "chrome-extension://invalid/" page for new tabs
- Laurenz Altenmüller
- It works, but sometimes causes issues with Momentum Dash (https://momentumdash.com/), which yields an ugly-loking "chrome-extension://invalid/" page for new tabs
- mark ifi
- This works, but it hangs a little bit long after opening a tab. Still five starts, because it's the only one that works.
- mark ifi
- This works, but it hangs a little bit long after opening a tab. Still five starts, because it's the only one that works.
- Nicole Palmer
- This works great, thank you! Have you considered porting this extension over to Firefox? With the migration of Firefox to WebExtensions, users are left without any way to get a similar experience.
- Nicole Palmer
- This works great, thank you! Have you considered porting this extension over to Firefox? With the migration of Firefox to WebExtensions, users are left without any way to get a similar experience.
- Kay P.
- Works well with the keyboard AND mouse! The only downside is, that a tab must have finished loading before it can be closed this way.
- Kay P.
- Works well with the keyboard AND mouse! The only downside is, that a tab must have finished loading before it can be closed this way.