Mile Wide Back

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.

What is Mile Wide Back?
Mile Wide Back is a Firefox add-on that turns the left edge of your browser window into a multi-purpose button for controlling your browser and navigating your tabs. With a single click, you can navigate back and forward, close the current tab, open a new blank tab, and cycle through your tabs. It's intuitive, fast, and efficient.
Stats
By: em_te
Users: 87
Rating: 4.67 (12)
Version: 0.3 (Last updated: 2021-06-01)
Creation date: 2017-07-20
Weekly download count: 1
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • storage
Size: 26.61K
URLs: Website
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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:

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!

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
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Safety
Risk impact

Mile Wide Back may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Mile Wide Back has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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