Backstay

Stop Backspace key shortcut taking you back to previous page.

Backstay - An Extension to Disable Backspace Shortcut

"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

Users: -

Rating: 3.45

(22)

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

Creation date: 2015-10-01

Size: 187.39K

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 172,520 ▼ 1,826

Other rankings

#1824 in Accessibility ▼ 5

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

User reviews

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.

Thomas Bombadillio, 2023-05-20

You are my savior! You should win a Nobel Peace Award!

Empurror Katz (Empurror Meow), 2017-03-01

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Backstay requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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