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Status: Fixed
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Closed: Aug 2016
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Type: Feature

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Create an official extension to re-enable backspace-as-back

Project Member Reported by pam@chromium.org, May 27 2016

Issue description

Track work to publish an official extension to restore backspace-as-navigate-back
 

Comment 1 by doganh...@gmail.com, May 30 2016

I use "Backspace" to go previous page very frequently and I wish Google developers return from that decision.
Please implement this option natively in settings, not with an extension. 

It is unbelievable that such a well-established keyboard convention could be abandoned like this.

Navigating 'back' is such a fundamental part of the browsing experience. To replace the fastest shortcut of such a crucial feature with the suggested subsitutions is a disservice to this browser. 

Using two hands to press "Alt-Left" or using "Right-Click->Back" feels so clumsy and slow when you are performing this action hundreds of times a day.

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This is not the place to be debating the decision to remove backspace to go back.

Comment 4 by pam@chromium.org, Aug 17 2016

Status: Fixed (was: Started)
The "Go Back With Backspace" extension is now available as https://goo.gl/L30YZ7

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