Backspace for Navigation
Activate Backspace shortcuts to navigate in history object
As of June 2026, Backspace for Navigation has 3,000 users and a 4.30/5 rating from 129 reviews in the Functionality & UI category.
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129 reviews
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Version
3.2.0
Manifest V3
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- tabsstorage
- Host access
- None declared
Screenshots
About
The original extension to bring back the Backspace key shortcut as navigation for history.back() (backspace) and history.forward() (shift+backspace). Supports blacklisting of pages, recognizes input fields and works on Linux, OSX and Windows. Version 3.2.0 integrates the missing migration of exceptions from versions <3.x.x
Technical
- Version
- 3.2.0
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 58.2KiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- aeffggjddcchloadflonilaahpclmbnm
- Developer ID
- u1bf1b81383269057a6eac8fcf2963b68
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Mar 12, 2010
- Last Updated (Store)
- Jul 22, 2024
- Last Scraped
- Jun 2, 2026
- Website
- https://www.simplyblock.io/
- Privacy Policy
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