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Backspace for Navigation

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Description from extension meta

Activate Backspace shortcuts to navigate in history object

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Backspace for Navigation
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The original extension to bring back the Backspace key shortcut as navigation for history.back() (backspace) and history.forward() (shift+backspace). Supports blacklisting of pages, recognizes input fields and works on Linux, OSX and Windows.

Version 3.2.0 integrates the missing migration of exceptions from versions <3.x.x

Latest reviews

guaac
This extension prevents Chrome Remote Control from ending with the Backspace key. Add "remotedesktop.google.com" to app settings.
Александр Корнышев
Иногда из-за приложения яндекс браузер полностью загружает одно из ядер процессора, из-за чего процессор сильно греется, а комп тормозит. Такое поведение преждевременно сожгёт вам процессор, будьте аккуратнее.
Geoff Goas
This has been working great for me up until Chrome 69. Now the extension randomly causes 100% CPU usage. Is the developer active?
Geoff Goas
This has been working great for me up until Chrome 69. Now the extension randomly causes 100% CPU usage. Is the developer active?
Jaime Garcia
Mysterious high cpu usage, possible crypto miner
Jaime Garcia
Mysterious high cpu usage, possible crypto miner
Irina Svetlowa
Hi, I am interested in acquiring your extension "Backspace for Chrome". Please contact me at: [email protected]
Irina Svetlowa
Hi, I am interested in acquiring your extension "Backspace for Chrome". Please contact me at: [email protected]
R K
Of ALL the Chrome extensions out there to restore backspace functionality, this is the only one I found with the ability to work around unwanted "go back" behavior occurring in Flash applets. You can use the "Exclude list" feature to blacklist those websites from the "backspace to go back" behavior.
R K
Of ALL the Chrome extensions out there to restore backspace functionality, this is the only one I found with the ability to work around unwanted "go back" behavior occurring in Flash applets. You can use the "Exclude list" feature to blacklist those websites from the "backspace to go back" behavior.
David Ward
This DID work in Windows for everyone who says it doesn't. Had this working on Win 8 quite happily until recently. Assume a Chrome update has hobbled it now.
David Ward
This DID work in Windows for everyone who says it doesn't. Had this working on Win 8 quite happily until recently. Assume a Chrome update has hobbled it now.
Alex Morais
No me puedo creer que me haga falta esta extensión...
僊逸醉(Feng)
does not work on some sites but better than nothing
僊逸醉(Feng)
does not work on some sites but better than nothing
Michael Barber
This will work till the Chrome dev's come to their senses and add this option to the app natively.
Michael Barber
This will work till the Chrome dev's come to their senses and add this option to the app natively.
willde Oscar
no use
willde Oscar
no use
Michael Richardson
Doesn't work on Windows, but I'm giving it 5 stars to show my support in the hopes that the Chrome team will come to their senses and either bring this functionality back, make it an option or that someone will create an extension that will correct their mistake (by my opinion).
Michael Richardson
Doesn't work on Windows, but I'm giving it 5 stars to show my support in the hopes that the Chrome team will come to their senses and either bring this functionality back, make it an option or that someone will create an extension that will correct their mistake (by my opinion).
Etienne Levesque Guitard
It doesn't work on Windows. Only OS X and Linux.
Etienne Levesque Guitard
It doesn't work on Windows. Only OS X and Linux.
Evgeniy R
What's up? It's not working after last update!
Evgeniy R
What's up? It's not working after last update!
Alex Georgiev
Cool, but not working for file system files.
Alex Georgiev
Cool, but not working for file system files.
Nikola Nikolov
Excellent - does exactly what it's supposed to. It can be very frustrating to have to use the mouse to click the back button when you're mostly using the keyboard... It is a bit uncomfortable when you sync between Windows and Linux, but I can get over it.
Nikola Nikolov
Excellent - does exactly what it's supposed to. It can be very frustrating to have to use the mouse to click the back button when you're mostly using the keyboard... It is a bit uncomfortable when you sync between Windows and Linux, but I can get over it.
Monish Overlander
Should not navigate to previous page when attempting to delete text within an input element. Please fix.
Monish Overlander
Should not navigate to previous page when attempting to delete text within an input element. Please fix.
Aaron Anderson
It works well enough, but has a bug where backspacing a mistake in certain text fields (often form data, such as shipping addresses) causes navigation away from the page instead of the intended behavior of erasing the mistake.
Aaron Anderson
It works well enough, but has a bug where backspacing a mistake in certain text fields (often form data, such as shipping addresses) causes navigation away from the page instead of the intended behavior of erasing the mistake.
Halil Velasco
Hace lo que dice y ya, me alegra por fin poder regresar con el teclado
Krissy Brannan
It hasn't worked on a single page.
Krissy Brannan
It hasn't worked on a single page.
john nguyen
FINALLY!!! perfect, you know how you get lazy sometimes and want to just use one hand...my pinky loves the backspace button
john nguyen
FINALLY!!! perfect, you know how you get lazy sometimes and want to just use one hand...my pinky loves the backspace button
Erwin Baeyens
The only remark I can make is that this add-on should be unneeded as this is functionality that belongs in the browser.
Erwin Baeyens
The only remark I can make is that this add-on should be unneeded as this is functionality that belongs in the browser.
Jason Lewis
Great idea - solves the problem but if you use Chrome's ability to sync plugins between your various machines, it breaks backspace functionality in chrome on Windows.
Jason Lewis
Great idea - solves the problem but if you use Chrome's ability to sync plugins between your various machines, it breaks backspace functionality in chrome on Windows.
Jonathan Miller
It doesn't work on Facebook at all, as far as I can tell.
Jonathan Miller
It doesn't work on Facebook at all, as far as I can tell.
Daniel Husman
Doesn't work on Ubuntu 13.4
Daniel Husman
Doesn't work on Ubuntu 13.4
Jesse Hu
Works for most pages - breaks on many.
Jesse Hu
Works for most pages - breaks on many.
Anonymous
thanks you saved me some coding.
Philippe Proulx
So nice to have this feature back on Linux!