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Backspace for Navigation

by Chris Engelbert

v3.2.0 Updated Jul 22, 2024 58.2KiB
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3K
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★ 4.30
129 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

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
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Reviews (16 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2018-09-18
Jaime Garcia

Mysterious high cpu usage, possible crypto miner

★☆☆☆☆2016-07-12
willde Oscar

no use

★☆☆☆☆2013-12-13
Krissy Brannan

It hasn't worked on a single page.

★☆☆☆☆2013-08-02
Daniel Husman

Doesn't work on Ubuntu 13.4

★☆☆☆☆2013-06-25
Dylan Durdle (MonkeyWrench)

Stopped working for me.

★☆☆☆☆2012-10-21
Matt Overlan

Doesn't work on OpenSuse 12.1, Chrome 22.0.1229.94

★☆☆☆☆2012-09-08
Eddie Dx

Does not work! Version 21.0.1180.89 (Dutch)

★☆☆☆☆2011-12-08
Leo Alekseyev

Breaks backspace functionality on Windows. Since the extensions are synced, I can't install it on just my Linux machines.

★★☆☆☆2013-08-19
Jonathan Miller

It doesn't work on Facebook at all, as far as I can tell.

★★☆☆☆2012-12-03
Adrian Bjugård

Does what it is supposed to, but for users who sync their data to multiple browsers and use different operating systems it is annoying, because the extension disables backspace from working in other operating systems and becomes activated automatically when the linux client syncs. Is there any way to fix this?

★★★☆☆2016-03-02
Evgeniy R

What's up? It's not working after last update!

★★★☆☆2014-01-20
Monish Overlander

Should not navigate to previous page when attempting to delete text within an input element. Please fix.

★★★☆☆2014-01-09
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.

★★★☆☆2013-09-14
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.

★★★☆☆2013-07-22
Jesse Hu

Works for most pages - breaks on many.

★★★☆☆2012-02-04

This is very useful, but there is s conflict with this extension if you're using Chrome on both Windows and Linux. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and Win 7 on a couple different laptops...if I add this extension and turn it on in Linux, the extension is also enabled Chrome on Win7, which kills the backspace function. If I disable it on Win7, then when I go back to my Linux laptop it is disabled there as well and backspace doesn't work. So I have to choose, either have backspace working on Win7/Chrome, or Linux/Chrome, but not both. Is there a way to make this extension work in Linux w/out borking the same feature in Win7 when it's enabled there? Thanks!

Permissions (2)

Permissions

storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 3.2.0
Updated Jul 22, 2024
Size 58.2KiB
First Seen Mar 29, 2026