Mile Wide Back - Quick navigation and tab switching
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The left edge of your browser window becomes a multi-purpose button. It is infinitely wide because your mouse can continue to travel left, while the cursor will remain stuck to the edge of the screen.
For optimal usability, please make sure that your window in maximized.
The trick is to fling your wrist to the left. No accuracy or coordination is needed here. You could even do this blind-folded.
Then proceed to left/middle/right click the mouse as desired or rotate your mouse wheel.
- Left click to navigate back
- Right click to navigate forward
- Middle-click to close the current tab
- Rotate the mouse wheel to cycle through your open tabs
- Left and right click at the same time to create a new tab
This extension doesn't work on the Browser's Settings page and the WebStore page, because of Chrome's security policy.
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- Very convenient and useful
- Works well for closing tabs with wheel click
- Indispensable for previous Firefox users
- Easy to use
- Does not function on Brave browser
- Experiences issues when not in demo mode
- Not all features work as expected
- Indispensable extension for Firefox users
- Glad to have it back on Chrome
- Convenient tab management feature
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Mile Wide Back requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
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Mile Wide Back has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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