Go back with your middle mouse button.
Enhance your browsing experience with the Middle Click To Go Back extension! Navigate effortlessly and customize your middle mouse button for intuitive actions.
Features:
- Click the middle mouse button on an empty space on a web page to go back in your browsing history.
- Optionally, middle-clicking closes the current tab if there is no page to go back to. You have control over this behavior.
- Default actions, such as opening links in a new tab or closing a tab with middle-click, remain unaffected. On Linux, you can also paste using the middle mouse button as always.
- Seamless compatibility tested on both Windows and Linux operating systems.
Release Notes:
- Version 2: Updated to Manifest 3.
- Version 1.8: Works on "tabless windows" too.
- Version 1.7: Optional behavior for middle-click to close the current tab.
- Version 1.6.3.3: Bug fixes.
- Version 1.6.3: Improved stability by changing the onclick event to mouseup.
- Version 1.6.2: Optional feature no longer closes the browser.
- Version 1.6.1: Added options to enable/disable the feature.
- Version 1.6: Middle-click closes the current tab if no page to go back.
- Version 1.5: Now works seamlessly on Windows.
- Version 1.4: Improved responsiveness and stability.
- Version 1.3.1: Added "all_frames": true to the manifest and introduced icons.
For Firefox users, check out our extension on Mozilla Add-ons:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5938
Explore a more intuitive browsing experience with Middle Click To Go Back!
Latest reviews
- (2023-02-15) Some Guy: did not work at first then i came to reviews thought hmmm bunch of 5 star let me close chrome and reopen it yep you need to restart chrome for it to work i literally couldnt find a wireless mouse at target earlier today that had back and forward buttons welp this works!
- (2021-12-27) Konstadino P: works fine! just what i needed
- (2021-03-10) Zach: I would like the option of a hotkey to temporarily disable so we can use the normal middle button scroll function; like Shift + middle button to scroll left/right...
- (2020-11-04) Edward Park: Great program, but not working on mac :(
- (2019-03-27) ВАСЯ пупкин: До сих пор работает! Спасибо!
- (2018-07-28) Cameron Young: Get this extension because Google Chrome has an idiot working for them.
- (2018-04-28) Subham Jha: a must have extention for all users.
- (2018-04-06) mark day (neowalla): Doesn't work
- (2015-10-29) Nikola Toshev: Works great! Can we get double-click the middle button to close the tab? I bet 95%+ of mouse gestures are back and close.
- (2015-08-19) Donnie Darko: This used to be default in previous Chrome versions, along with opening in a new tab by Middle Clicking on a link but they seem to have deleted this highly useful feature now. The only way to get this back is to use extensions, therefore, increasing the memory usage of Chrome - ridiculous! Thanks for creating this so I can be more productive!
- (2015-08-13) Benjy Dale: I've used it for years on Firefox, and the same add-on also works a treat here in Chrome :-) This is essential to me, as I used to have an old Logitech mouse that would bind the middle button to 'back' command, but the more recent mice do have that binding.
- (2013-08-26) Kaan Doğan: I love it. If you use Babylon Dictionary with middle click, you should install it !
- (2013-08-13) 朱熹: Simple and practical, increase efficiency, increase the operating speed is absolutely excellent work!
- (2013-07-29) Jose Mtz: Exactly what I needed! Thank you so much for this!
- (2013-05-27) Ulf Lundholm: Works just fine. Really love this feature because I do not have a good mouse :) * Win7, Comodo Dragon (Version 26.2.2.0)
- (2012-12-09) Tom Muenze: Works fine on Win7 + Ubuntu 12.10