There are many occasions in which we have spoken to you, and stressed, aspects of the importance of security when talking about web browsers. It is true that in programs such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge, this is an aspect that has not stopped gaining importance in recent years.
But of course, that may not be the only thing that developers of these extensive applications can focus on. We must bear in mind that Internet browsers are a type of program that is currently used almost constantly. Both on desktops and on mobile phones , the use of these specific programs has become very common. It is precisely for this reason that an increasing number of its developers are in charge of improving their projects.
Browser news is not always welcome
How could it be otherwise, these are carried out through new updates that these software companies send for their products. Say that in cases such as the aforementioned Google Chrome, the new versions reach many hundreds of millions of computers and users. Therefore its importance and significance is beyond doubt.
These new functions that come to these specific programs , as happens with the other sectors, focus on their functionality, interface and security . With all this what is intended is that the software adapts as much as possible to the current times. However, not always those changes that take place, have the desired acceptance at first.
This is precisely the case that we are going to talk about in these same lines. In fact we are referring to a functionality that for many means being able to move between the Chrome websites in a faster way, but that suddenly disappeared. And is that like security or privacy , being able to move as comfortably as possible among the many websites we visit is key.
A Chrome feature that disappeared but can be revived
Thus, for years Google Chrome users had a function that allowed them to return to the previous web page, by pressing a single key . As you can imagine, specifically we mean that, in a Chrome session, before returning to the previous website, it was enough to press the back key.
Once you were used to using this key, we could move between new and old URLs, in a much more fluid way. But one day, right off the bat, Google itself made the determination that this was no longer necessary. Well, as it has been seen over time, that was a mistake. And is that since then many of the usual Google browser , have complained about the decision made by the search giant. Initially, the reason for this was that in their view, the shortcut was hardly used by almost anyone, something they were possibly wrong about.
Reasons why Google does not allow back with the backspace key
With everything and with it and despite the requests of many, the firm never took a step back. That is why in these same lines we are going to show you how to bring the functionality back. It is true that users can still use the back arrow located in the upper left corner of the program interface , but it is not the same. For this it is necessary that we take a mouse hand, which is a waste of time.
This disappearance of which we have spoken to you, the same Google justified it as something that was hardly used, so it was not worth its maintenance. At the same time, he argued that some were confused when entering data in web forms , since the key to delete characters was the same as the backspace. This could translate into many losing everything they had already filled out up to that point.
How to recover the function of returning to the previous web
But as we mentioned before, we are going to show you an extremely simple and effective way to recover all this. In this way and using this simple trick, you can use the back key again to return to the previously visited website. Specifically, this is something that we are going to achieve thanks to one of the handy extensions that we use so much in these programs.
For this we are going to have to use the add-on for Google Chrome called Go Back With Backspace that you can download right now.
Therefore, at this point, all we are going to have to do is access the official Chrome store page , so that we can download and install the aforementioned extension in the browser. Once this has been added, we will see that next to the address bar is a new icon. At the same time and from that moment, we can already use the backspace key mentioned to return to the previously visited website .
Of course, it can be the case that this is a more annoying than useful function in some Internet websites. Well, to say that we can deactivate the function just by clicking on the icon we were referring to.
