Mile Wide Back

Name: Mile Wide Back
Rating: 4.6667 (12 reviews)
Author: em_te

Quickly navigate back in the browser history by clicking on the left border of the window, navigate forward by right-clicking on it, middle-click on the left border to close the current tab, and rotate the mouse-wheel to cycle through your tabs.

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Turns the left edge of your browser window into a multi-purpose button for controlling your browser and navigating your tabs.

Left click to navigate back
Right click to navigate forward
Middle-click to close the current tab
Left click and right click simultaneously to open a new blank tab
Rotate the mouse wheel to cycle through your tabs

Using Fitts Law, you can fling your wrist to the left of the screen without accuracy or coordination to reach the multi-purpose button. You could even do this blind-folded.

Your window needs to be maximized to work.

Unlike typical mouse gestures extension, this extension is more intuitive and faster to operate because it only requires one click. It does not require coordination between 2 fingers and it does not require the drag and drop gesture which requires 2 actions to be performed at the same time.

Permission Disclosure:

This extension asks for permission to "access your data from all websites" because it needs to be able to read when the mouse clicks on the left edge on the current webpage.

Fitts Law:

Add-on

By:

em_te

Daily users:

73 -4

Rating:

4.67

(12)

Version:

0.3 Last updated: 2021-06-01

Version code:

5240774

Creation date:

2017-07-20

Risk:

Permissions:

<all_urls>
storage

Size:

25.98KB

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Data ingested on:

2025-07-14

Ranking

# 11,614 ▼ 300

Other rankings

#128 in widget keyword 16 ▲ 3 #197 in navigation keyword 13

Other platforms

Mile Wide Back (v0.3)

490 4.18

(11)

Mile Wide Back (v0.3)

1,608 3.30

(3)

User reviews

by 敬念*****, 2025-04-15

by 远离*****, 2025-03-11

正经的好软件，支持

by ly*****, 2020-05-18

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Mile Wide Back requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Mile Wide Back has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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