# Mile Wide Back

> 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.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/milewideback-webext](https://chrome-stats.com/d/milewideback-webext)

## Overview

- **ID:** `milewideback-webext`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** em\_te
- **Category:** appearance,other,tabs
- **Daily users:** 66
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Rating:** 4.67 / 5 (12 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.3
- **Last updated:** 2021-06-01
- **First published:** 2017-07-20
- **Size:** 26 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/milewideback-webext/)
- **Website:** [https://medium.com/@em.te/mile-wide-back-e482229e7e9e](https://medium.com/@em.te/mile-wide-back-e482229e7e9e)

## Description

Mile Wide Back is a Firefox add-on that turns the left edge of your browser window into a multi-purpose button for controlling your browser and navigating your tabs. With a single click, you can navigate back and forward, close the current tab, open a new blank tab, and cycle through your tabs. It's intuitive, fast, and efficient.

## Rankings

- #14,187 — Overall
- #128 — widget
- #203 — navigation

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/milewideback-webext)