They rolled this out on chrome recently. Annoying as crap. At least there's a command line option to go back with backspace now. Hopefully they don't remove it. I may have to use another browser if they do...
Yes, I used backspace to return here after reading the thread (using firefox).
Or just install the backspace extension that reenables this behavior
And give some random developer access to "all my data on all websites". No thanks.
The author of that extension isn't "some random developer". It's provided by Google themselves.
Ah, they must have pushed that out after I was trying to restore this functionality a couple of weeks ago. Previously it was just some random that everyone was linking to.
They released an extension that you can use to bring it back - "Go Back With Backspace" - for some reason the Chrome store is erroring out when opening it at the moment.
What's the command line option?
--enable-blink-features=BackspaceDefaultHandler
How new is the option? It doesn't seem to work in the stable version.