Mile Wide Back

Quickly navigate back in the browser history by clicking on the left border of the window, navigate forward by right-clicking on it, middle-click on the left border to close the current tab, and rotate the mouse-wheel to cycle through your tabs.

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What is Mile Wide Back?

Mile Wide Back is a Firefox add-on by em_te. This add-on has 98 daily active users and a good user rating of 4.58. The latest version, 0.3, was updated 2 years ago.

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By: em_te

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Users: 98 ▲ 3

Rating: 4.58 (12)

Version: 0.3 (Last updated: 2021-06-01)

Creation date: 2017-07-20

Weekly download count: 2

Firefox on Android: No

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

• <all_urls>
• storage

Size: 26.61K

URLs: Website

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Found a bug? Let us know!

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome

Not available on Edge

ChromeStats Rank

# 8802 ▲ 125

Other rankings

#89 in widget keyword ▲ 6 #114 in navigation keyword ▲ 1

Summary

Turns the left edge of your browser window into a multi-purpose button for controlling your browser and navigating your tabs.

 Left click to navigate back
 Right click to navigate forward
 Middle-click to close the current tab
 Left click and right click simultaneously to open a new blank tab
 Rotate the mouse wheel to cycle through your tabs
Using Fitts Law, you can fling your wrist to the left of the screen without accuracy or coordination to reach the multi-purpose button. You could even do this blind-folded.

Your window needs to be maximized to work.

Unlike typical mouse gestures extension, this extension is more intuitive and faster to operate because it only requires one click. It does not require coordination between 2 fingers and it does not require the drag and drop gesture which requires 2 actions to be performed at the same time.

Permission Disclosure:

This extension asks for permission to "access your data from all websites" because it needs to be able to read when the mouse clicks on the left edge on the current webpage.

Fitts Law:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/fitts-law-and-infinite-width/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jensenh/giving-you-fitts
http://particletree.com/features/visualizing-fittss-law/

Safety

Risk impact

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Risk likelihood

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User reviews

正经的好软件，支持

by lycleg, 2020-05-18

Could it be possible to let user choose to open or close the wheel rotating function? Really thankful for this extention btw, very handy, great job!

by Firefox user 14781305, 2019-04-23

Hi, thanks for fixing the mouseup issue, however since the latest version, scrolling the mouse wheel no longer cycles through tabs. I am unable to find any of the customizable preferences in about:config either.

by Firefox user 5975525, 2019-03-29