Back button of Google Chrome after clicking a hyperlink whose target is on the same PDF document

Question

PDF documents have hyperlinks to the contents on the same document (analogous to "#section" hrefs for an HTML document). Where's the back button to go back to the page I was on (where I clicked the hyperlink).

Let's say I'm on the index of a PDF tutorial, page 4, and I click on Chapter 2's hyperlink in the index that takes me to page 38. Now, if I want to go back to page 4 again, which button or shortcut should I use?

Within all browsers, excpet Google Chrome, you can press Alt and the left arrow to achieve this. Is there a similar shortcut within Google Chrome?

Timi

Strange: The title and first two paragraphs of this question are verbatim from superuser.com/questions/22786/… – Residue

Firefox 62 can do it BTW, it is the best Linux PDF reader as of 2018 IMHO: askubuntu.com/questions/18495/… – Zellner

can't believe chrome doesn't have this function yet as of 2019. March! – Phyllisphylloclade

Answer 1

AFAIK there is no way to do it with the standard Chrome PDF Viewer. Take a look at their support page https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1060734. You could try requesting this feature but keep in mind that the PDF viewer is part of Chrome, not Chromium.

Trevar

Answer 2

While the builtin pdf reader in Chrome does not support Alt + Left you can use this chrome extension, to replace the pdf reader with one that supports the Alt + Left functionality that you desire. Moreover, when using this extension, if you press the back button on chrome's address bar it takes you back to the previous view.

Evilminded

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This is awesome! It works magically. Thanks, @AHK! – Hereby

Answer 3

I think it is simpler to just open the hyperlink in a new tab e.g. with the middle mouse button. Then you can just close the tab afterwards.

Capricorn

Answer 4

Alt + Left should be what you want.

Bister

Not in Chrome. i just tested it again. – Timi

What os you have, I use chrome in my ubuntu and it really works here. – Bister

Windows 10 Enterprise Edition. That explains it. – Timi

Alt + Left appears to simply be a shortcut for the browser's back button - which takes you out of the pdf. We need to go back to the hyperlink source location within the pdf. – Aracelyaraceous