Google Chrome: Go Back With Backspace

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Re-enables the backspace key as a back navigation button (except when writing text).

Go back with the backspace button! This extension re-enables the backspace key as a back navigation button -- except if you're writing text.

Before Chrome 52, the backspace key navigated back (if you weren't writing text). Many people lost their progress while working online by accidentally pressing backspace and leaving a page -- so we removed the feature from Chrome, and created this extension for those who prefer the old behavior.

This extension can't restore backspace on certain special pages, for example any of the "chrome://" pages such as Settings or Extensions.

About the "all sites" permission: In order to capture backspace on every page, the extension needs to install a little piece of code on each one. It does nothing else with the the page, its information, or your typing.

Go Back With Backspace
 
Alt + Left Arrow works. No need of an extension just for this.
 
If Google changes something that I use on a daily basis, I would love to have an official workaround for the same. The change in Chrome 52 had affected a lot of people so it's good to see this extension. Though a setting would have been better.
 

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