I recently migrated from Chrome to Firefox and had been missing the ability to use backspace to back to the previous page. It occurred to me that there might be a Firefox extension and this one seems to work well for me. Now that I think about it, I probably had to install an extension for it to work in the latest incarnations of Chrome - it's just been so long that I added it that I didn't remember doing it.

This doesn't seem to work on all webpages anymore. Any chance of a fix for that?
Or maybe it randomly stops working...

Edit: developer response puzzled me, so I searched and found that indeed the functionality this extension provides is still part of Firefox; it just needs to be enabled in about:config. Change "browser.backspace_action" value from 2 to 0 (zero). And it works! Without the icon in the URL bar or need for this extension. So I'm still puzzled by the developer's response.
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Works well. Would it be possible to remove the indicator icon in the URL bar, or to make it optional? The icon appears regardless of whether there is history to go back to or not, so it is not really serving a purpose, and really the back arrow already serves the purpose of showing whether or not there is history to go back to, so the only purpose of the icon is to show whether or not the extension is enabled. Most people are going to keep it enabled all the time, so this is basically just visual clutter. Please consider this; thank you!

Works well in most cases, but it's unreliable in YouTube where I want to use it most (to return to the home page after watching a video). I find after opening a video, whether it is playing or not, and regardless of where I click on the page, mostly it doesn't go back. It does occasionally, which, as a commercial software engineer myself, I know is the most infuriating type of bug. So mentioning it here in the hope that it may be useful to the dev to be able to attempt to reproduce.

The plugin is great and compact. For some reasons it doesn't work with GitHub (although history is present and works when pressing back icon)

Thank you for this

Unfortunately this extension works only on half of pages visited. I can't tell you in which pages it works or it doesn't but surely it does not work in many pages, and that's why I give it only 2 stars. The creator should recheck it and correct it because it's a great help for experienced users that work more with keyboard and less with mouse.

It only work 1% of the time.
I edited about:config and it works perfectly 100% of the time.

it works great. the fact that firefox doesn't include such an option is dumb, but thanks.

EDIT! It started working all on its own, no idea what the issue was but now it's perfect. 5 stars, thanks!

(I saw lots of recent reviews saying it works and I didn't want to mess up the rating so that's why I did four stars)
I've installed the extension and even restarted Firefox and I can't get it to work. I do have previous pages that I can return to by pressing the usual back button. Any thoughts on how to get it working? I've just migrated from Chrome to Firefox and am trying to find a substitute for the extension I had there.

Lightweight and it works!
Would it be much trouble add a "Shift+Backspace" function for navigating forwards Mikko?

Simple and good.

just installed, tried backspace on a site with no text boxes and previous pages...did not work so i'm removing...went to a different page and it suddenly worked re-rated 5 stars!

I installed it and immediately was able to use the backspace key to go back a page. Works great!