Backstay

Stop Backspace key shortcut taking you back to previous page.

What is Backstay?

"Backstay" is a modern, user-friendly Chrome extension that prevents the backspace key from navigating to the previous webpage. It has been designed to mitigate the frustration of losing important typed data due to an inadvertent backspace press. Furthermore, it retains the conventional role of the backspace key, i.e., to delete the text and does not contain adware, trojans, or viruses. It's an improved solution to the BackStop extension by Matt Cranham, addressing previous user concerns.

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By: motaheri

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Users: 5,000+

Rating: 3.45 (22)

Version: 3.0.1 (Last updated: 2015-10-01)

Creation date: 2015-10-01

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 187.39K

Ranking

# 14599 ▼ 47

Other rankings

#1912 in Accessibility ▲ 8

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Have you ever pressed the "backspace" key only to find that Chrome has taken you to the previous page?

Chrome has a keyboard shortcut for the "Backspace" button which when pressed takes you to the previous web address. Most users don't use this and to their frustration and probably yours, Chrome takes you to the previous page. This often happens when you have spent time to type something lengthy in an online form only to lose all that work.

This extension mediates in those cases and disables the backspace key shortcut from ruining your productivity. It allows the conventional use of the backspace key as a text delete key.

NO ADWARE. NO TROJANS. NO VIRUSES.

This is an update to the BackStop extension developed by Matt Cranham. It fixes the issues brought up in the comments.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Restores the backspace functionality in text boxes
Works as advertised across different operating systems
Easy solution for backspace issues
Helps prevent losing written content
Compatible with multiple browsers

Cons

Does not work in all text fields
Still acts as back button in some contexts
Issues with functionality on certain setups
Some users report it doesn't work at all
Inconsistent performance reported by users

Most mentioned

Works as expected
Doesn't work!
Fixed it by restarting
Saves typing work
Works in address bar

Recent reviews

ああああ, 2024-03-31

работает, Vivaldi

Fever 1172 (Антон), 2024-01-01

I can't stand computers that do what they think is helpful rather than just doing what you tell it to. Losing a page of typing because the browser thought it should go back a page instead of erase a typo, is total garbage. This was not an easy fix to find, as web searches kept showing me results for people that wanted the exact opposite. Apparently there's too many people that think backspace is just a browser button and can't survive the internet with out it. I'm not sure what's so hard about clicking the browser back button with a mouse. This extension does what it's supposed to; make my backspace button do what it's supposed to. BTW works on brave, i'm not on chrome.