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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I was having trouble going back a page in my Motorola edge and found a solution different. I went to some experimental features on Google chrome under chrome://flags and enabled “swipe to move cursor.” I can swipe left and right on my chrome browser now. I hope this helps!
From what I can see, there is no way to go back and forward with a web browser in Android 10. There are no forward and back buttons in the browser and swiping left and right does nothing. I guess they figured making web browsing impossible would make a better user experience.
Ditto here. Forward is always greyed out. No back button where the post author says it should be. Desperately needed.
There is no built-in back button in chrome android. We have to use our phone navigation button that we generally use.
Example: Samsung Galaxy allows swipe navigation to move the previous and next page. Similarly, the Pixel phone has the same feature for navigation.
Once we navigate to the previous page, then the forward button will be active. I wish the chrome android add both navigation buttons to avoid such confusion.
Going along with everybody who wants the back and forward button this is a bunch of crap and makes things far harder to navigate
its shit rather have a back and forwards button visable
What a sack of horse manure mobile chrome is. Users need forward and refresh buttons
Same. No back button on mine. I’m using the pixel 4a.
My screen doesn’t look like that, there is no back arrow at the bottom of my screen. Help!!!
Thank you for this tip regarding moving forward through the browser history. Searched long and hard to finally find a tip that worked.
I want back and forward button on Chrome..