Chrome browser offers a soft-touch navigation button in the browser UI. This button helps you navigate between pages in browsing sessions.
Alternatively, you can tap and hold the navigation button to see the navigation history and select the desired page. These navigation buttons are disabled when you launch the browser or haven’t started browsing.
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Navigating Forward or Next Pages
If you’ve visited previous or even earlier pages within the browsing sessions, you can move forward and go to the last page until the button is grayed out. The forward button serves an excellent purpose for easy navigation on Chrome. Follow the steps to navigate forward using the forward button:
- Launch Chrome Android browser.
- Open a website and start navigating within the websites and links.
Assuming you already navigate backward on the website. - Tap on the More
options in the right-hand top corner. - At the top, you can see the right side pointing → arrow icon.
- Tap on the to move forward in site navigation.
Please note that you’re on the last page if you see the arrow icon slightly greyed out or not moving forward in navigation. The forward button makes browsing easier, especially for readers who like to read articles online!
Navigate Backward or Previous Pages
The back button helps to revisit the page you left without reading or wanting to refer back to. Tapping on the back button on the Android system will take you to the previous page and earlier pages until it takes you to the first page. Follow the steps to navigate backward:
- Launch Chrome Android browser.
- Open a website and start navigating within the websites and links.
- Assuming you have already browsed a few web pages.
- Tap on the back button < icon on your Android navigation menu.
You’ll be directed to the previous page on Chrome Android by using the back button. If you continue tapping on the back button, you will continue to navigate to the previous page until you see the first page where you started the session.
If you tap and hold the back button, the option will list the recently closed history of the website pages you’ve visited in the session. This allows you to jump back to any older page without navigating to the subsequent back page.
Note: If you have the swipe navigation enabled, you may not see the soft touch navigation button on the Android system. In that case, you can use the system navigation to move backward or to the previous page.
Bottom Line
The Chrome navigation within the Android phone is valuable and important for an avid reader. If you are a person who 100% relies on a web browser rather than a native app, then you should use the navigation system.
It will make you productive and eliminate the task of using new tabs and windows in the browser.
Similarly, you can find the browser navigation on a Chrome computer that works similarly to the Android browser.
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Thanks! finally learned where forward button was on Android chrome.
30 years of commonly used internet and we’re talking about forward and back buttons like it’s something new?! it’s pathetic that we have to search to find these stupid basic functions. I’m so fed up with how downhill the internet and apps have gone, I’m about to stop using any devices going forward. not melodramatic I’m serious.
You keep referting to a button that simply does not exist. who does that serve?
Hi Johnson, we need to use system navigation to move backward. For example, Pixel devices, we have right & left edge swipes for navigation. If you need to navigate back, then swipe the edges. A similar navigation system does exist in Samsungs OneUI.
Swipe from leftedge of screen to right to backward and the same to forward from right to left
Thank you for your comment, this works!
It appears that most android 10 users are going to have to swipe specifically in the upper right and left quarters of their screen
The back button is completely missing from by chrome browser on my pixel5. What ideas do any readers have for my?
Hello Annette, the back button is removed from the chrome android. You can use your phone’s navigation to move backward. You can use the swipe navigation within the chrome browser for navigating to the previous page on your Pixel 5 phone.
The new LG Android does not have the navigation buttons you mention. The only way to go back on my phone is tap the three dots, choose HISTORY and figure out which page you want to go back to. It’s the most annoying mess I’ve ever used on a mobile phone.
So do I. I just changed from iPhone and this shit sucks!!!!!
back to ios for me
This makes samsung a30 unusable and im returning it to the store. Terrible mistake omitting the back button. Creates a big hassle!!