However, that’s not the only use for the Back button. These days, quite a few poorly designed sites rely on visitors to use the Back and Forward buttons to navigate through their pages.

Amazon is bringing back physical page-turn buttons in the form of a back-tap gesture for the 2024 Kindle Paperwhite and Colorsoft. The gesture allows you to turn to the next page or scroll down ...

Oh, you pressed the back button? You "won" a PS4 instead. Chrome developers may soon stick it to that jerk with a tweak to keep pages from manipulating your back button.

Except, the back button does nothing. You try again: nothing. This website has you trapped, inexplicably forcing you to stay on the page or close the tab entirely.

The back button relies on your pages visited history to know which previous page to load. It's possible to add multiple "pushState" commands to this history (thanks to HTML5) ...

Google engineers are currently working on a Chrome browser update that will block malicious websites from hijacking the browser's history and, indirectly, the Back button. The issue at hand is a ...

This button has an arrow pointing left (‘back’) with the name of the application. If you tap on it, it jumps back to the Mail app. It’s a nice little shortcut that was first introduced in iOS 9.