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Chrome delete keyboard shortcut12/28/2022 ![]() ![]() And backspace-for-back devotees have been vocal.įortunately, for the backspace-as-back loyalists, two recently launched Chrome extensions immediately restore the banned shortcut: Backspace to go Back from Adobe engineer Razvan Caliman, and Back to Backspace from Stripe engineer J Delaney.įor those who want even more control over Chrome, there is an extension called Shortkeys, from Mike Crittenden, a software architect at software development firm Phase2. But Chrome now has more than 1 billion active users, so 0.04 percent could mean 400,000 users. ![]() Google software engineer Ojan Vafai has indicated that 0.04 percent of page views go back with the backspace key. (Personally, that has not happened to me very often, but I understand the argument.) One reason Google cited for making the change is years of complaints about how hitting the backspace button, sometimes by accident, caused the browser to go back a page and inadvertently lose data entered into a text box. ![]()
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