Backspace Enabler
Re-enable disabled by default ability to hit the Backspace key to go back to the previous page. Backspace Enabler gets this functionality, while keeping ability to delete text while in text box.
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Pros
- Works well for navigating back in most cases.
- Lightweight and easy to use.
- Provides a useful keyboard shortcut for experienced users.
- The functionality is still achievable through about:config settings.
Cons
- Inconsistent performance across different websites.
- Does not work reliably on platforms like YouTube and GitHub.
- Some users find it unnecessary if the browser already has back functionality.
Most mentioned
- Inconsistent functionality on various websites.
- Users found a way to enable similar functionality via about:config.
- Requests to remove or make the indicator icon optional.
- In some cases, it works flawlessly after troubleshooting.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-16 | Firefox user 13133424 | | This doesn't seem to work on all webpages anymore. Any chance of a fix for that? Or maybe it randomly stops working... |
| 2024-04-19 | Miguel Garza | | Edit: developer response puzzled me, so I searched and found that indeed the functionality this extension provides is still part of Firefox; it just needs to be enabled in about:config. Change "browser.backspace_action" value from 2 to 0 (zero). And it works! Without the icon in the URL bar or need for this extension. So I'm still puzzled by the developer's response. -- Works well. Would it be possible to remove the indicator icon in the URL bar, or to make it optional? The icon appears regardless of whether there is history to go back to or not, so it is not really serving a purpose, and really the back arrow already serves the purpose of showing whether or not there is history to go back to, so the only purpose of the icon is to show whether or not the extension is enabled. Most people are going to keep it enabled all the time, so this is basically just visual clutter. Please consider this; thank you! |
| 2024-01-20 | Fred | | |
| 2023-10-09 | Bob Bob | | Works well in most cases, but it's unreliable in YouTube where I want to use it most (to return to the home page after watching a video). I find after opening a video, whether it is playing or not, and regardless of where I click on the page, mostly it doesn't go back. It does occasionally, which, as a commercial software engineer myself, I know is the most infuriating type of bug. So mentioning it here in the hope that it may be useful to the dev to be able to attempt to reproduce. |
| 2023-07-16 | Mirko | | The plugin is great and compact. For some reasons it doesn't work with GitHub (although history is present and works when pressing back icon) |
| 2023-07-14 | Firefox user 17977599 | | Thank you for this |
| 2023-07-12 | Firefox user 12224463 | | Does not work half the time despite there being pages to back space to. |
| 2023-04-20 | Firefox user 16766066 | | |
| 2023-03-10 | mustafaHTP | | |
| 2022-12-30 | Firefox user 17714019 | |
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