How to make backspace work in Google Chrome

Question

My girl friend has just switched to Ubuntu on her laptop (Yay!), but she complains about backspace not going back in history in Google Chrome.

I know that in Firefox you can change the behaviour(Pressing backspace doesn't open previous page in Firefox), but she uses Chrome (!). Is there something that can be done to restore the behaviour to Chrome?

Is this true for every website? Because backspace can be blocked by javascripts. — Joren, Sep 18 '13 at 18:18
Alt + left and Alt + right are shortcuts for back/forward in chrome on Linux. — Mo Valipour, May 11 '14 at 01:10

Glutanimate · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-21T06:02:27.073

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Update:

Original post:

Looks as if there is an extension for this available on the Chrome Webstore:

edited May 21 '14 at 06:02

answered Sep 20 '13 at 08:45

Glutanimate

Will test it as soon as I get home :) – beruic Sep 23 '13 at 12:35
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The reviews on the extension are mixed. – Oct 13 '13 at 04:44
I have tried this and it is now working(+1). Another thing to think of is device drivers are not available for some boxes in ubuntu or *nix environments. When I used this same box with windows 7, it worked well as it had all drivers loaded. – Siva Tumma Jan 19 '14 at 02:03
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Works in 90% of the cases, but behaves really poor when trying to delete characters from an input inside a Flash app (takes you back). – Eduard Luca Apr 10 '14 at 18:31
Does anyone know a way to do the opposite of this? remove this "feature" that was added in chrome 35.0? – Mike H-R Sep 23 '14 at 19:01

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