Go Back With Backspace
Re-enables the backspace key as a back navigation button (except when writing text).
What is Go Back With Backspace?
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Summary
Go back with the backspace button! This extension re-enables the backspace key as a back navigation button -- except if you're writing text.
What's New in 3.0:
- Updated to Manifest V3.
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 requested permissions:
"Read and modify all your data": 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 page, its information, or your typing.
"Manage your apps, extensions, and themes": This lets the extension detect when it has been re-enabled and install its code into tabs that are already open then.
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Pros
- Restores backspace function for navigation which users find very useful
- Works perfectly and seamlessly for many
- Essential functionality that users feel should be a default feature in Chrome
Cons
- Can cause performance issues like slowing down Chrome and high CPU usage
- Interferes with certain websites, causing unexpected behavior such as multiple page-back actions or not working on specific sites like MSN
- Some users experience issues with other features like the Twitch chat when the extension is active
Most mentioned
- Restores a much-missed feature of using backspace to go back a page
- Issues with it needing to be reinstalled occasionally for functionality
- Frustration that such a basic feature requires an extension
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Go Back With Backspace is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Go Back With Backspace if you trust the publisher.
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Go Back With Backspace has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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