I and the LLM made an extension that will piss off devs, designers, and everyone in that space who wants to control what I can do, but that helps me enormously. And it took a lot of work and research. The LLM did all the heavy lifting, really, but I did the background research to see what was possible.

The extension restores true back button functionality even on sites that don’t allow it and even those that actively attempt to prevent it. I burned a fuckload of tokens doing this, brothers and sisters. But it works pretty well now for something that is not supposed to even be possible. It is possible, of course. Anything is with the will and the tools.

I’d made an earlier version of this extension but it was honestly pretty crap. It broke tons of sites, was slow, and just in general was not worth using. The new one actually functions correctly. Basically, it snapshots the page and stuffs that into local storage and then when you slap that back button, you get the snapshot of the page exactly as it was before, transparently. And, people, it’s so much faster than the worthless fucking redraw that every page insists on doing now.

No, I will not release it generally. It’s just for me. And my partner, if she wants it. I simply refuse to be anyone else’s tech support outside of my actual job.

This extension rules. It is a middle finger to all those who attempt to control my computer against my wishes and intentions.

Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.