If I open a Twitter tab but regain my senses and close it again quickly, a pop-up informs me how many seconds I just saved compared to my usual time-wasting visit. Anytime I look at the bird-logoed slot machine of trolling, outrage, and thinkfluencing, there’s now a bold banner at the top counting how long I’ve been on the site that day. My name is Tom and I have a Twitter problem-but I’m getting help from a Chrome extension called HabitLab. But why force yourself to press two keys when you can install this extension and press only one? The preferred keystroke of Alt + left arrow is still the default in Chrome, and maybe you're used to that now. Thankfully, the company recognized our plight and just weeks later released this extension, which restores the back-button functionality of the backspace key. Google had neutered one of the most useful mechanisms for navigating the web. But imagine the outrage of millions of Chrome users when, upon the next browser update, the backspace key suddenly did nothing. When a user typed into a browser text field and hit the backspace key hoping to correct a typo, they'd sometimes inadvertently cause the browser to jump back one page, nuking whatever efforts they'd spent the last few minutes sweating over. But Google removed the backspace action that summer, because it caused a particularly Googley problem: People were losing work in web apps. By mid-2016, this action-a simple keystroke to go back one page in your browser history-had become hardwired in our lizard brains. It had been that way since the browser's launch some eight years prior. Up until that point, the backspace key on your desktop keyboard doubled as a back button in Chrome. In July of 2016, the world changed for the worse.
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